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Issue: Humbug #7
Publication Date: February 1958
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHumbug Publications
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Humbug Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harvey Kurtzman; Jack Davis (Assistant Editor); Will Elder (Assistant Editor); Al Jaffee (Assistant Editor); Arnold Roth (Assistant Editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions:  
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagHumbug #2 published March 2009
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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1958 Morn

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Arnold Roth [as A. R.]
Arnold Roth [as A. R.] (additions); Paul Émile Chabas (original)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Cover, and issue title, is a parody of the 1912 painting September Morn.
Galcream No More Greasy Palms!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Will Elder (signed)
Will Elder (signed)
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover. Fake ad.
1958...

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Arnold Roth [as A. R.]
Arnold Roth [as A. R.]
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Letters of comment from readers Fred Santino, John Ball, Jack Gregory, Cal Simpson, William Kastanotis, unsigned, W. J. Turner, Doodles Weaver, (Miss) Rena Colburne and Gary Moss.
Frankenstien and His Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Will Elder (signed)
Will Elder (signed)
? (tones)
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
FlagM #11/2007 published October 2007
as Frankenstien og monsteret hans [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
Frankenstein is (apparently) deliberately mis-spelled as Frankenstien in the title and throughout the story.
1957 in Revue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Arnold Roth [as A. R.]
Arnold Roth [as A. R.]
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Daily Nues
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3
Rocket to the Moon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
R. O. Blechman [as Blechman] (signed)
R. O. Blechman [as Blechman] (signed)
R. O. Blechman [as Blechman] (signed)
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
R. O. Blechman is credited as B. Blechman in the masthead (presumably the "B." is for Bob, being short for Robert)
Ingenuity in Packaging

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Misleading Columns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Siegel
Will Elder
Will Elder
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3
Indoor Track

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Arnold Roth (signed)
Arnold Roth (signed)
? (tones)
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Sports
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Sputniks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jack Davis (signed); Russ Heath (signed)
Jack Davis (signed); Russ Heath (signed)
? (tones)
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Science
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
First page by Davis, second page by Heath
Crime in the U.S.A.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Pablo Picasso (painting); Al Jaffee (signed)
Pablo Picasso (painting); Al Jaffee (signed)
? (tones)
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
First two pages reproduce (badly) the paintings Three Musicians by Picasso (but image is flipped left to right), Guernica by Picasso, an unidentified sculpture, and an unidentified painting
The Unrecognized Aspirin War

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Al Jaffee (signed)
Al Jaffee (signed)
? (tones)
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Medicine
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Fun with Hamlet & His Friends

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Siegel
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
? (tones)
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3
Placed on pages 27, 28 and 32; illustration emulated child's primer illustration and not in Davis' style but the hands are a giveaway
Have Gun You Better Travel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jack Davis (signed)
Jack Davis (signed)
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Television
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Miscellaneous
3
Orval Faubus Humbug Hero of 1957

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Arnold Roth (signed)
Arnold Roth (signed)
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
The Grand Humbug Award
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.
*Fingers!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jack Davis (signed)
Jack Davis (signed)
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover. Subscription ad for Humbug. Asterisk is part of the title.

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