Help! #v1#4

(November 1960)

Warren, 1960 Series

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Volume: 1
Price: 0.35 USD
Pages: 68
Indicia Frequency: monthly
On-sale Date: 1960-10-11
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: General Promotions Co. Inc.

Editing: Harvey Kurtzman (editor); Gloria Steinem (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1960 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Salterman (photo)
Inks: Salterman (photo)
Colors: Salterman (photo)

Indexer Notes

Model is comedian Mort Sahl.

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Cover gallery

cartoon / 19 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman ?
Pencils: ? (photos)
Inks: ? (photos)
Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

News photos and movie stills with humorous word balloons.

insert or dust jacket / 4 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Letters: typeset

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 0.75 page (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman; Mort Sahl
Pencils: Ron Harris ? (photo); Salterman (photo)
Inks: Ron Harris ? (photo); Salterman (photo)
Letters: typeset

Letters / letters page / 0.75 page (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ? (photos)
Inks: ? (photos)
Letters: typeset

comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Letters: typeset

photo story / 8 pages (report information)

Script: Bernard Shir-Cliff
Pencils: Ron Harris (photos)
Inks: Ron Harris (photos)
Letters: typeset

Reprints

in Harvey Kurtzman's Fast Acting Help! (Gold Medal Books, 1961 series) #s1163 (1961)

Indexer Notes

Models include actor Dick Van Dyke.

text story / 3 pages (report information)

Script: Talmage Powell
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Letters: typeset

Genre: satire-parody

Indexer Notes

Robin Hood satire.

photo story / 5 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman ?
Pencils: ? (photos)
Inks: ? (photos)
Letters: typeset

text story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Letters: typeset

Reprints

from New England Magazine, January 1892.

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Caran d'Ache
Pencils: Caran d'Ache
Inks: Caran d'Ache
Letters: typeset

Reprints

from Album Caran d'Ache (Plon, 1889 series) #1

comic story / 1.5 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Letters: ?

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Jack Davis
Inks: Jack Davis
Letters: typeset

photo story / 1 page (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ? (photos)
Inks: ? (photos)
Letters: typeset

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Zhou Shuren [as Lusin]
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Letters: typeset

cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Chéri Hérouard
Pencils: Chéri Hérouard
Inks: Chéri Hérouard
Letters: typeset

Reprints

from La Vie Parisienne, 1924.

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Paul Coker
Pencils: Paul Coker
Inks: Paul Coker
Letters: typeset

Reprints

in Harvey Kurtzman's Fast Acting Help! (Gold Medal Books, 1961 series) #s1163 (1961)

comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Anthony Brode
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Letters: typeset

Genre

satire-parody

Reprints

from Punch, 1954

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Jorgassen
Pencils: Jorgassen
Inks: Jorgassen
Letters: typeset

Reprints

From Punch, 1922.

text story / 3.5 pages (report information)

Script: Algis Budrys
Pencils: ? (photo)
Inks: ? (photo)
Letters: typeset

Genre

science fiction

Reprints

from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1959.

Help's Public Gallery / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Heyward; D. Watson; ?
Pencils: Heyward; D. Watson; ?
Inks: Heyward; D. Watson; ?
Letters: typeset

comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script: Arnold Roth
Pencils: Arnold Roth
Inks: Arnold Roth

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Table of Contents

0. [no title indexed]
1. [no title indexed]
2. Air Sickness Bag
3. Cover Story etc.
4. [no title indexed]
Letters
5. The Hazards of Table-Sharing
6. Binky and the Status-Sinker
7. The Compleat Robin
8. Help! Magazine Scoops the Nation
9. The Yellow Wallpaper
10. The Haunted House: The Story of a Hound Huntsman
11. The Rumor-Go-Round
12. That Movie Where You-Know-Who Gets Killed When ...
13. The Overworked Suburban Housewife, U.S.A.
14. The Epigrams of Lusin
15. Wall Street Made Easy
16. Nearly Automatic Warfare
17. [Camels]
18. Lucky Goldilocks, with Apologies to Kingsley Amis
19. Intelligent Anticipation
20. The Distant Sound of Engines
21. [no title indexed]
Help's Public Gallery
22. The Great, Wide Hunter

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Alan Hutchinson
Mark Q
Tony R. Rose
Jim Walls

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