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Issue: Bijou Funnies #8

- Attribution History

Publication Date: January 1973

Issue #8
- Bijou Funnies
- #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- #3 [3rd printing]
- #2 [Third Printing]
- ✓ #8
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Detail

Issues: #8 of 7 Issues (10 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Second Printing

Rating: Adults Only

Publisher: Flag

Kitchen Sink Press

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Krupp Comic Works

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

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Price: $0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
15 (13 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: As indicated by the cover, this entire comic mimics Mad to a degree, using the format and running jokes of the early issues within strips drawn by underground cartoonists parodying each others' characters.

The indicia notes this is published in conjunction with the Bijou Publishing Empire, Inc. The price increased over the years. There were at least two printings at 75c, with the second print subsequently re-stickered at $1.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color Covers, Black and white Interiors (#2-7); Full Color (8)

Dimensions: 6.62" x 8.87" (16.81 cm x 22.52 cm) - (#2-7); Standard Modern Age US (7.12" x 10.18" (18.08 cm x 25.85 cm)- (#8)

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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Variants2

Bijou Funnies #8 [unnamed variant]

Bijou Funnies #8 [Second Printing]

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Content Items (15 total)

Tales Calculated to Sell You...

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Pages: 1

Um Tut Smuth?

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Synopsis: An editorial saying no more issues of Bijou will appear if a Supreme Court ruling permitting local communities to define standards of obscenity is not repealed. The ruling has impacted on several comic creators since 1973.

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Pages: 1

Notes: The editorial is signed 'The Editors of Bijou Funnies'

Geek Brothers!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Chicken Fat Freddy; Itinerant Irving; Phunnyass; Oat Willie; Landlady; Wonder Warthog; Chicken Fat Freddy's Pet; Oko Yunu; Linda Yeastman

Synopsis: Some of the Geek Brothers move onwards and upwards.

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Pages: 2.9

Notes: This parodies Gilbert Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

Chicken Fat Freddy's Pet

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Chicken Fat Freddy's Pet; Snoopy

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Pages: 0.1

Notes: This parodies a Peanuts strip, and occupies the bottom tenth of the second page of the Geek Brothers story.

Snazzy Melvin Snoot

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Snazzy Melvin Snoot; Geezer; Ragweed Willy; Dick Tracy

Synopsis: Melvin is mugged and his life goes downhill from there.

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Pages: 3

Notes: This parodies Skip Williamson's Snappy Sammy Smoot.

Melvin Natural

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Funky Feet; Melvin Natural; Daddy Natural

Synopsis: When is Funky Feet going to wise up and stop being dumped on by Melvin Natural?

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Pages: 3

Notes: This parodies R. Crumb's Mr Natural.

Hungry Irving Biscuits

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Hungry Irving; Eddie Seltzerbugs; Elaine

Synopsis: Hungry Irving is sick of his image and demands a makeover.

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Pages: 3

Notes: Kitchen is satirizing Daniel Clyne's Hungry Chuck Biscuits

Melvin Wizard!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Melvin Wizard; Lizard; Pogo

Synopsis: What's really under the wizard's hat?

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Pages: 3

Notes: This parodies Vaughn Bodé's Cheech Wizard.

Pard 'N' Nat

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Pard 'N' Nat

Character(s): Pard; Nat

Synopsis: Pard and Nat fall out.

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Pages: 4

Notes: This parodies Jay Lynch's Nard 'n' Pat

Inside Dopes

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Dim Kitsch; Geldo; Uncle Ted; Melvin; Clown; Hooligan Hare; Yolanda Nussman

Synopsis: The improbability of Kim Deitch's plots is satirised.

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Pages: 3

Bufo Boffo

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Toady; Hi-Jacker; Hans Keesler; Pinheads

Synopsis: Toady is kidnapped and forced to create art.

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Pages: 3

Notes: This parodies Bill Griffith's Mr The Toad and Zippy.

Checkered Cherub

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): The Checkered Cherub; Mick Jagger

Synopsis: The Checkered Cherub searches out those who deserve a good, swift death.

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Pages: 3

Notes: This parodies S. Clay Wilson's Checkered Demon.

A Case Of Outlined Lettering

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): The Wiper

Character(s): The Wiper; Grunt; Melvin

Synopsis: The Viper would be more effective if only he could control his cleaning compulsion.

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Pages: 3

Notes: This parodies Art Spiegelman's Ace Hole, Midget Detective.

Mashman Meets Spleen Queen

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Mashman; Spleen Queen

Synopsis: It's almost a date for Mashman and Spleen Queen.

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Pages: 2

Notes: This parodies Spain's Trashman and a Trina Robbins character. One page is in color, one page in black on yellow.

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Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Synopsis: A parody of the famous EC ad naming the assorted Mad imitations, using numerous titles of other underground comics in the text, and incorporating nine logos.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.