National Lampoon Magazine #v1#50

(May 1974)

50th Anniversary Issue (Table of Contents: 1)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Too Many Chiefs? (Table of Contents: 2)

cartoon / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

Fran Hollidge [as Hollidge] (signed)

Pencils

Fran Hollidge [as Hollidge] (signed)

Inks

Fran Hollidge [as Hollidge] (signed)

Letters

Fran Hollidge

Genre

satire-parody

Keywords

editorial cartoon; Indians

Indexer Notes

Page 8 on tan newsprint. A parody of editorial cartoons, using as many American Indian cliches as possible.

Another True Western Romance (Part Two) (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

M. K. Brown (signed)

Pencils

M. K. Brown (signed)

Inks

M. K. Brown (signed)

Colors

M. K. Brown (signed)

Letters

M. K. Brown (signed)

Genre

satire-parody; western-frontier

Characters

Lolly Barns; Billy Barns; Cecil Barrows; May Barrows; Amando Barrows

Synopsis

A former cowboy gets married and becomes a farmer, whose wife has triplets. Then he's captured by Indians.

Keywords

farm; Indians; triplets

Indexer Notes

Pages 25-28. To be continued. According to the editorial in the next issue, pages two and three were printed out of order.

Son-o'-God Meets Zimmerman (Table of Contents: 4)

Son-o'-God / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Frank Springer ?

Inks

Frank Springer ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

religious; satire-parody

Characters

Son-o'-God [Bennie David]; Zimmerman [Bob Dylan]; Devoted Dozen; Moishe Dayan; Golda Meir

Synopsis

While leading his Devoted Dozen though the desert, Son-o'-God has once more died. His body is brought to Jerusalem and put on display in the Zionist War Museum. The Devoted Dozen break into the museum and revive him. The Messiah is welcomed in the Holy City by everyone except Bob Dylan, who becomes the spirit Zimmerman to oppose him.

Keywords

Israel; Jerusalem; motorcycle; resurrection; Wailing Wall

Indexer Notes

Pages 31-36. To be continued. No credits for this sequence anywhere in the issue. Comic book parody. Color cover and fake ad (132,000 pc. Roman Catholics Set) on slick paper, and four page color story on newsprint.

Handicapped Sports (Table of Contents: 5)

cartoon / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)

Pencils

Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)

Inks

Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)

Letters

Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues); (logo)

Genre

satire-parody; sports

Keywords

amputees; baseball; blind; croquet; hockey; hunchback; iron lung; pool; sailing; snow skiing; sports; weight-lifting; wheelchairs; wrestling

Indexer Notes

Pages 51-54 on tan newsprint. Twelve pantomime cartoons involving disabled persons participating in sports.

Eight Comics in One! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Ed Subitzky (signed)

Pencils

Ed Subitzky (signed)

Inks

Ed Subitzky (signed)

Colors

Ed Subitzky (signed)

Letters

Ed Subitzky (signed)

Genre

humor

Indexer Notes

Page 61. A four panel by four panel grid with four stories if read from top down in each column or four stories if read left to right in each row, each column and row with a different genre.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

cartoon / 0.25 page (report information)

Script

Christopher Cerf ?; Henry Beard ?

Pencils

Warren Sattler (signed)

Inks

Warren Sattler (signed)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Will he shave it off?

Genre

advocacy; satire-parody

Characters

Uncle Sam

Synopsis

A parody editorial cartoon showing Uncle Sam tempted to shave his beard by a Dutch conspiracy.

Keywords

Dutch; propaganda; stereotypes

Indexer Notes

Page 63. Part of the "A. U. T. B. D Newletter" (Americans United To Beat the Dutch) on tan newsprint. The whole feature is credited to Christopher Cerf and Henry Beard, with no indication who wrote what.

Dutch Treachery Laid Bare! (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 1.5 pages (report information)

Script

Christopher Cerf ?; Henry Beard ?

Pencils

Don Perlin (signed)

Inks

Don Perlin (signed)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In past issues, we've told you how the Dutch have been killing our Elm trees...

Genre

advocacy; satire-parody

Synopsis

How the Dutch are destroying America's morals.

Keywords

Dutch; propaganda; stereotypes

Indexer Notes

Page 65-65. Part of the "A. U. T. B. D Newletter" (Americans United To Beat the Dutch) on tan newsprint. The whole feature is credited to Christopher Cerf and Henry Beard, with no indication who wrote what.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Foto Funnies / photo story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (photographs)

Inks

? (photographs)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

All unclothed sitte we often and indulge...

Genre

humor

Characters

Chris Miller (photos)

Synopsis

A nude man and woman recite archaic commentary about desire and self-pleasure.

Indexer Notes

Page 70. Dialogue is all in Olde English.

[An Unsettling Tree] (Table of Contents: 10)

cartoon / 0.25 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A road is cut through the middle of a huge tree. A woman in a convertible is unsettled when she notices a penis and testicles hanging from the top of the cut-out.

Keywords

tree

Indexer Notes

Page 83. Cartoon is not signed.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Underwear for the Deaf / photo story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Michael O'Donoghue (credited)

Pencils

David Kaestle (photographer, credited)

Inks

David Kaestle (photographer, credited)

Colors

Delores Deluxe (tinting, credited)

Letters

?; Michael Doret (logo, credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It is illegal to insult deaf women in all but fourteen states.

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A deaf woman is in a bar in Utah when she thinks she has been insulted.

Keywords

bar; deaf; Utah

Indexer Notes

Page 87. Hand-tinted photographs. "Graphics by Alan Rose," which isn't the logo, because that's credited separately.

Return of the Dodosaurs (Table of Contents: 12)

cartoon / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Rick Meyerowitz (credited, signed)

Pencils

Rick Meyerowitz (credited, signed)

Inks

Rick Meyerowitz (credited, signed)

Colors

Rick Meyerowitz (credited, signed)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; nature; satire-parody

Synopsis

A variety of silly dinosaurs, accompanied by pseudo-scientific text descriptions.

Keywords

dinosaurs

Indexer Notes

Pages 88-89. One large two-page drawing.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Nuts / comic story / 0.75 page (report information)

Script

Gahan Wilson (signed)

Pencils

Gahan Wilson (signed)

Inks

Gahan Wilson (signed)

Letters

Gahan Wilson (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Remember how different really old people were...

Genre

humor; children

Synopsis

The boy's grandfather teaches him how to chop wood and how to build a fire.

Keywords

chopping wood; teaching

Indexer Notes

Page 91.

[Subway Streakers] (Table of Contents: 14)

Dirty Duck / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bobby London

Pencils

Bobby London

Inks

Bobby London

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dirty Duck; Weevil; Annie Ratt

Synopsis

Annie watches male and female streakers enter a subway entrance, then moves to the next entrance to watch them emerge.

Keywords

nudity; streaking; subway

Indexer Notes

Page 93. 12-panel pantomime story.

Cheech Wizard Drops his Balls (Table of Contents: 15)

Bodé's Cartoon Concert / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Vaughn Bodé (signed)

Pencils

Vaughn Bodé (signed)

Inks

Vaughn Bodé (signed)

Letters

Vaughn Bodé (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

SukSuk Sun, if we both one in da whole, all, how come I go to pole and don't get to goof?

Genre

humor

Characters

Cheech Wizard; SukSukSun; Guru Eartheye

Synopsis

Guru Eartheye and SukSukSun make a pilgrimage to the swamp to see Cheech Wizard.

Keywords

pilgrimage; swamp

Indexer Notes

Page 94.

Introduction (Table of Contents: 16)

An American Story / comic story / 0.75 page (report information)

Script

Charlie Rodrigues

Pencils

Charlie Rodrigues

Inks

Charlie Rodrigues

Letters

Charlie Rodrigues

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Scene: a four-storied building on a typical street in your city, U. S. A.

Genre

humor

Characters

Arthur Chase; Doris Chase; Cathy Chase; Jeremy Chase; Luis Yépez Bayon; Ramona Placenta Castro Chumez Quijote Bayon; Lars Rasmussen; Theodora Rizzo; Mordecai Gordon; Fred Geste; Samuel F. B. Morse; Mildred Taylor; Oscar Samoorian

Synopsis

An introduction to the characters of the feature.

Indexer Notes

Page 95.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17)

One Year Affair / comic story / 0.25 page (report information)

Script

Byron Preiss (credited as Preiss)

Pencils

Ralph Reese (signed as Reese)

Inks

Ralph Reese (signed as Reese)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

And here almost six months have passed...

Genre

romance

Characters

Jill; Steve

Synopsis

Jill asks Steve if he has any repressed psycho-sexual fantasies.

Reprints

• in One Year Affair (Workman Publishing, 1976 series) (September 1976)

Keywords

sexual fantasies

Indexer Notes

Page 95. Part of a continued story.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18)

Idyl / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jeff Jones [as J] (signed)

Pencils

Jeff Jones [as J] (signed)

Inks

Jeff Jones [as J] (signed)

Letters

Jeff Jones

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I'm not afraid of nothing!

Reprints

• in Jeff Jones Comics & Zeichnungen (Volksverlag, 1978 series) (1978)
which is reprinted
• in Schwermetall (Volksverlag, 1980 series) #20 (September 1981)
• in Totem (Editorial Nueva Frontera, 1977 series) #15 ([febrero 1979])
• in Schwermetall (Volksverlag, 1980 series) #20 (September 1981)

Keywords

alligator

Indexer Notes

Page 97