Help!
#v1#8
(March 1961)
Warren,
1960 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-02-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- General Promotions Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Harvey Kurtzman (editor); Gloria Steinem (assistant editor); George Kirgo (contributing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Hugh Downs at Work
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Harry Chester (photograph)
- Inks
- Harry Chester (photograph)
- Colors
- Harry Chester (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
photo story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ...Ever got the feeling that the whole world's against you?
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Jokes made using stock photo images.
[no title indexed]
Editor's Preface / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 0.75 page
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- ? (photographs)
- Inks
- ? (photographs)
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
Letters / letters page / 0.75 page
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- ? (photographs)
- Inks
- ? (photographs)
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
Help's Public Gallery / cartoon / 3 pages
- Script
- Skip Williamson; P. A. Flynn; Richard Weckler; Steve Surrynne
- Pencils
- Skip Williamson; P. A. Flynn; Richard Weckler; Steve Surrynne
- Inks
- Skip Williamson; P. A. Flynn; Richard Weckler; Steve Surrynne
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
The Crystal Egg
text story / 6.5 pages
- Script
- H. G. Wells
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- science fiction
The Hero Who Didn't Get Rescued
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- The Cavalry arrives too late to save a western hero.
- Reprints
The Private Eye Who Was Wrong
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- A detective fingers the wrong suspect.
- Reprints
The Hero Who Failed to Blow Up the Fortress
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- An action hero fails to blow up his enemies' base.
- Reprints
Indecent Exposure: How to Write a Best-Selling Autobiography
text story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Kirgo
- Pencils
- Elliott Erwitt (photograph)
- Inks
- Elliott Erwitt (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
Dopgatch Revisited
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
The story title is Dopgatch, but is often 'corrected' to Dogpatch. Dop-Gatch is correct. It is a parody of Al Capp's Li'l Abner.
An Egyptian Hornet
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Algernon Blackwood
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
Orson Bean in the Shopping Center
photo story / 7 pages
- Script
- Algis Budrys
- Pencils
- Harry Chester (photographs)
- Inks
- Harry Chester (photographs)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
-
in Help! (Warren, 1960 series) #21 (October 1964)
-
The Centaur
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A centaur falls in love with a woman; the woman turns into a horse.
- Reprints
Kissies
photo story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A photo model invites the reader to kiss her.
- Reprints
- in Help! (Warren, 1960 series) #21 (October 1964)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Hugh Downs at Work
-
1.
["...Ever got the feeling that the whole world's against you?"]
-
2.
[Table of Contents]
-
3.
[no title indexed]
Editor's Preface -
4.
[no title indexed]
Letters -
5.
The Shock of Recognition
-
6.
[no title indexed]
Help's Public Gallery -
7.
The Crystal Egg
-
8.
The Hero Who Didn't Get Rescued
-
9.
The Private Eye Who Was Wrong
-
10.
The Hero Who Failed to Blow Up the Fortress
-
11.
Indecent Exposure: How to Write a Best-Selling Autobiography
-
12.
Dopgatch Revisited
-
13.
[no title indexed]
-
14.
Berlin
-
15.
An Egyptian Hornet
-
16.
Orson Bean in the Shopping Center
-
17.
The Centaur
-
18.
Kissies
This issue was modified by
- Weldon Adams
- Steve Coates
- Michael Hoskin
- Alan Hutchinson
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