National Lampoon Magazine
#v2#70
(May 1984)
21st Century / Heavy Metal / National Lampoon,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 2.00 USD
- Pages
- 92
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1984
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- The Humor Magazine for Adults
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- NL Communications, Inc.
- Editing
- Kevin Curran; Fred Graver; Peter Gaffney
The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.
Baseball 1984 Preview
cartoon / 1 page
- Pencils
- Steve Brodner (credited)
- Inks
- Steve Brodner (credited)
- Colors
- Steve Brodner (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Characters
- Pete Rose
- Synopsis
- Aging professional baseball play Pete Rose needs a walker to make it to first base as he hangs on trying to beat Ty Cobb's record for most base hits in a career.
- Keywords
- baseball; hits; walker
Indexer Notes
Cover. Credit from the editorial on page 8.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Bill Woodman (signed as Woodman)
- Pencils
- Bill Woodman (signed as Woodman)
- Inks
- Bill Woodman (signed as Woodman)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All right, so I made a mistake.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A fisherman comes home to find his wife in bed and a nude fisherman in the closet.
- Keywords
- adultery; closet; fishing
Indexer Notes
Page 8.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
- Pencils
- ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
- Inks
- ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
- Letters
- ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Malcom Piester, take one giant step back into the world of the living.
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Grim Reaper
- Synopsis
- The Grim Reaper plays a game of "Mother May I" with the souls in a graveyard.
- Keywords
- cemetery; children's game; death
Indexer Notes
Page 10.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.2 page
- Script
- Mick Stevens (signed as M Stevens)
- Pencils
- Mick Stevens (signed as M Stevens)
- Inks
- Mick Stevens (signed as M Stevens)
- Letters
- Mick Stevens (signed as M Stevens)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Not bad! ...For a duck.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A duck sits at a desk in a large private office and ponders his success.
- Keywords
- business; duck
Indexer Notes
Page 14.
[Minotaur and Wife]
cartoon / 0.2 page
- Script
- John Jonik (signed as Jonik)
- Pencils
- John Jonik (signed as Jonik)
- Inks
- John Jonik (signed as Jonik)
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A minotaur sits outside his cave, reading a newspaper. His wife, who is nude, has a cow's udder for breasts.
- Keywords
- minotaur; myth; newspaper; udder
Indexer Notes
Page 18. Pantomime cartoon.
[An Unsettling Sign]
cartoon / 0.2 page
- Script
- Sam Gross (signed as S. Gross)
- Pencils
- Sam Gross (signed as S. Gross)
- Inks
- Sam Gross (signed as S. Gross)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A cat walks away from a small mouse hole in the wall when he sees a much larger hole being sawed from within.
- Keywords
- cat; mouse; saw
Indexer Notes
Page 20.
[no title indexed]
Foto Funnies / photo story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Try the sword in the other arm.
- Genre
- humor; military
- Synopsis
- Consultants try to design a new uniform for the Army, starting with a sword, shield, and breastplate and ending up with a half-nude woman.
- Keywords
- breastplate; military; nudity; shield; sword; uniform
Indexer Notes
Page 28.
P. T. 69: The Adventures of Ted Kennedy in World War II
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Sean Kelly (credited)
- Pencils
- Kevin Nowlan (credited)
- Inks
- Kevin Nowlan (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dad, can I have the keys to the car?
- Genre
- satire-parody; war
- Characters
- Ted Kennedy; Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Eunice Kennedy; Bobby Kennedy; Pat Kennedy; Patrick Kennedy; John F. Kennedy (mention)
- Synopsis
- Ted Kennedy reminisces about being sent to the Pacific in World War II as a youngster when his brother Jack is listed as missing. He uses the family fortune to buy a boat and outfits it with an all-girl crew to try to find his brother.
- Keywords
- bar; bribery; Hawaii; lighthouse; Pacific; San Francisco; water skiing; World War II
Indexer Notes
Pages 42-45.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Script
- Peter Steiner (signed as P. Steiner)
- Pencils
- Peter Steiner (signed as P. Steiner)
- Inks
- Peter Steiner (signed as P. Steiner)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Come in, Wilson. I've traded my phone for some booze. Just another unexpected consequence of the breakup of AT & T.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A businessman get an unexpected benefit from the breakup of the phone company.
- Keywords
- deregulation; liquor; telephone
Indexer Notes
Page 48.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Bob Zahn (signed as Zahn)
- Pencils
- Bob Zahn (signed as Zahn)
- Inks
- Bob Zahn (signed as Zahn)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What am I going to do with it?
- Genre
- humor; historical
- Synopsis
- A caveman invents the wheel, but plans to use it for something other than travel.
- Keywords
- cavemen; sex; wheel
Indexer Notes
Page 70.
The All-American Barbie Dreamhouse Theater
photo story / 4 pages
- Script
- Kevin Curran (credited); Peter Gaffney (credited)
- Pencils
- Robert Lewis (photographs, credited)
- Inks
- Robert Lewis (photographs, credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You know, sometimes Jesse Jackson makes a lot of sense...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Barbie; Ken; Kim; P. J.; Spot (dog); Mr. T (host); Marilyn Monroe
- Synopsis
- Barbie and her friends are at her house when zombies attack.
- Keywords
- animal abuse; death; dolls; moon; television; zombies
Indexer Notes
Page 72-75. The story is told with photographs of dolls.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Script
- Brian Savage (signed)
- Pencils
- Brian Savage (signed)
- Inks
- Brian Savage (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, so long everybody! I'm off to play with the 1969 Chicago Cubs!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A middle-aged man bids his family good-bye on his way to a fantasy baseball camp with the 1969 Chicago Cubs.
- Keywords
- fantasy baseball
Indexer Notes
Page 76.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Joe Kohl (signed as J. Kohl)
- Pencils
- Joe Kohl (signed as J. Kohl)
- Inks
- Joe Kohl (signed as J. Kohl)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Then again, if it did rain, my hair would get all frizzy.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A couple is stranded in the desert and the woman is worried about her hair.
- Keywords
- desert
Indexer Notes
Page 82.
Detective Zippy Comical Investigations
Zippy / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bill Griffith (signed)
- Pencils
- Bill Griffith (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Griffith (signed)
- Letters
- Bill Griffith (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That's the whole story - I suspect that former cartoon character Baby Huey...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Zippy; Baby Huey; Elizabeth Taylor; Nancy (cameo); Sluggo (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Someone has been sending obscene "Get Well" cards to Elizabeth Taylor. Zippy goes to Minneapolis to track down the likely culprit--Baby Huey.
- Keywords
- choking; Heimlich Maneuver; Minneapolis; Puerto Vallarta
Indexer Notes
Page 83.
[no title indexed]
Trots and Bonnie / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Pencils
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Inks
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- Letters
- Shary Flenniken (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You wanna come over and watch TV?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Trots (dog); Bonnie
- Synopsis
- Bonnie invites a boy to come over while her parents are gone, but all he wants to do is talk.
- Keywords
- telephone
Indexer Notes
Page 84.
[no title indexed]
Politenessman / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Ron Barrett (signed)
- Pencils
- Ron Barrett (signed)
- Inks
- Ron Barrett (signed)
- Letters
- Ron Barrett (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Politenessman and Miss Jane Fonda attend the theater...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Politenessman; Jane Fonda (cameo)
- Synopsis
- A man watching a Shakespearean play has a heart attack and is admonished by Politenessman for disrupting the show.
- Keywords
- heart attack; play
Indexer Notes
Page 85.
[Unhandy Man]
Popular Problems / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- A boy leaves his toys scattered on the floor. His father thinks he'll build a set of shelves, but fails miserably.
- Keywords
- shelves; spanking; toys
Indexer Notes
Page 85. A parody of Roy Doty's "Wordless Workshop" in Popular Science magazine.
[no title indexed]
Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- Pencils
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- Inks
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- Letters
- Charlie Rodrigues (signed as Rodrigues)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy! All this weird stuff goin' on!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Ray; UPS man
- Synopsis
- A kidnapper has stolen Joe and is holding him for ransom. To make matters worse a stranger has sent his ear to Ray and now has changed his mind and wants Ray to forward it on to his newest crush.
- Keywords
- ear; kidnapped; telephone; UPS
Indexer Notes
Page 86.
Love and Breakfast
Mimi Pond's Famous Waitress School / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One of the unwritten rules of relationships is...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A waitress is a by-stander while a couple have an argument while eating breakfast.
- Keywords
- argument; breakfast; diner; waitress
Indexer Notes
Page 87.
Dreamland
Excursions / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Rick Geary (signed)
- Pencils
- Rick Geary (signed)
- Inks
- Rick Geary (signed)
- Letters
- Rick Geary (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man has strange dreams.
- Reprints
-
in Rick Geary's Wonders and Oddities (Dark Horse, 1988 series) (December 1988) - in Housebound With Rick Geary (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) (September 1991) [reformatted]
-
- Keywords
- dreams
Indexer Notes
Page 87.
The Exploitations of Hercules amongst the N. Americans
Hercules / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Mark Marek (signed as M. Marek)
- Pencils
- Mark Marek (signed as M. Marek)
- Inks
- Mark Marek (signed as M. Marek)
- Letters
- Mark Marek (signed as M. Marek)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As Apollo begins his daylight ride, we find noble Herakles...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hercules [Herakles]
- Synopsis
- Hercules takes his chariot for a weekend in the country. He is challenged by a couple of dimwits who try to wreck his chariot but quickly find themselves on the losing end.
- Keywords
- car; chariot; police; sword
Indexer Notes
Page 88. Both spellings of the hero's name are used.
[no title indexed]
The Appletons / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- B. K. Taylor (signed)
- Pencils
- B. K. Taylor (signed)
- Inks
- B. K. Taylor (signed)
- Letters
- B. K. Taylor (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's late one evening at the Appleton home and Mrs. Appleton readies herself for bed.
- Genre
- humor; domestic
- Characters
- Norm Appleton; Helen Appleton
- Synopsis
- Norm drags his wife to bed, but then gets distracted by bouncing on the mattress.
- Keywords
- bed; mattress
Indexer Notes
Page 89.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
Baseball 1984 Preview
-
2.
["All right, so I made a mistake."]
-
3.
["Malcom Piester, take one giant step back into the world of the living."]
-
4.
["Not bad! ...For a duck."]
-
5.
[Minotaur and Wife]
-
6.
[An Unsettling Sign]
-
7.
["Try the sword in the other arm."]
Foto Funnies -
8.
P. T. 69: The Adventures of Ted Kennedy in World War II
-
9.
["Come in, Wilson. I've traded my phone for some booze. Just another unexpected consequence of the breakup of AT & T."]
-
10.
["What am I going to do with it?"]
-
11.
The All-American Barbie Dreamhouse Theater
-
12.
["Well, so long everybody! I'm off to play with the 1969 Chicago Cubs!"]
-
13.
["Then again, if it did rain, my hair would get all frizzy."]
-
14.
Detective Zippy Comical Investigations
Zippy -
15.
["You wanna come over and watch TV?"]
Trots and Bonnie -
16.
["Politenessman and Miss Jane Fonda attend the theater..."]
Politenessman -
17.
[Unhandy Man]
Popular Problems -
18.
["Boy! All this weird stuff goin' on!"]
Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend -
19.
Love and Breakfast
Mimi Pond's Famous Waitress School -
20.
Dreamland
Excursions -
21.
The Exploitations of Hercules amongst the N. Americans
Hercules -
22.
["It's late one evening at the Appleton home and Mrs. Appleton readies herself for bed."]
The Appletons
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- Steven Samuels
- Luther Weaver
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