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I Danced the Twist!

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Jennifer Billingsley (model)

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Notes: Photo-illustration.

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Penciller(s): World Wide Photos (photograph)

Inker(s): World Wide Photos (photograph)

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): John F. Kennedy (photo)

First Line: Uncle Sam needs you!

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Notes: Inside front cover. News photograph with word balloon

Help!

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)

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Notes: Contents of the issue, illustrated with clips from each section.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Vincent Price (photo)

First Line: ...I won the DRAW ME contest?

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Notes: Movie still from "The Pit and the Pendulum" with word balloon.

Editor's Preface

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman

Penciller(s): ?; ? (photo)

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Character(s): Jennifer Billingsley (photo)

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Pages: 1

Notes: Introduction, with photo of cover model's face and vintage illustration.

Letters

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman (response)

Penciller(s): various

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from Pam Chritchette (Muskegon, Mich.), "A Citizen" (Summerfield, Fla.), Jose C. Frantz and Ronald C. Cuccia (Kenner, La.), Ted Reed (Short Hills, N.J.), Landon Chesney (Bessemer, Ala.), Bob Howard (Allen Park, Mich.), Bill Butt (Dearborn, Mich.), Bob Long (Omaha, Nebr.), Doc Early (Murfreesboro, Ark.), John C. Roberts (Arvado, Colo.), Ed Donwing (Bogota, N.J.), Ed Wisniewski (Everson, Pa.), Mike Malone (Mesquite, Texas), Dick Vrabcak (West Palm Beach, Fla.), and Dean Grennell (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Brigitte Bardot (photo)

First Line: Put the groceries down anywhere, boy.. —I said put the groceries...

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Notes: Movie still from "The Truth" with word balloon added.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Jack Webb (photo)

First Line: But Sergeant, I always throught "shafting" was just—well, you know, a "figurative" term.

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Notes: Movie still from "The D.I." with word balloon added.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Just sign here. This time we'll take Cuba.

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Notes: Movie still with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Carolyn Jones (photo)

First Line: Do me a favor, will you? Shave your chest.

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Notes: Movie still from "Johnny Trouble" with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: What's wrong, I speak softly, don't I?

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Notes: Movie still with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Sandra Dee (photo)

First Line: You're the Dean of Women?

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Notes: Movie still from "Tammy Tell Me True" with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Don't be silly! My wife's statue can't talk.

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Notes: Vintage movie still with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous, western

First Line: Everybody knowum twist.

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Notes: Movie still with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Good Lord! I think I'm broadcasting bad breath.

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Notes: Movie still from "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Well, what's wrong with Jimmy Hoffa?

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Notes: Movie still with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: It's alright, my dear, I got my doctorate from Harvard just last week.

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Notes: Movie still from "Love by Appointment" with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Oh boy! A new pipe! Gee, thanks, Ma.

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Notes: Vintage movie still with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous, western

First Line: Well, now he's a good Indian.

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Notes: Movie still with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Peter Lorre (photo)

First Line: He thinks he's Peter Lorre.

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Notes: Movie still from "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: And I didn't want to get called up from the Reserve.

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Notes: Movie still from "The Last Time I Saw Archie" with word balloon.

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First Line: What? I'm on Candid Camera?

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Notes: Vintage movie still with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Kenneth More (photo)

First Line: Sure, I promised you a home, but we'll have to start gradually.

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Notes: Movie still from "Man in the Moon" with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Ray Danton (photo)

First Line: Take good care of them. They're the fastest guns in the vest.

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Notes: Movie still from "The Legend of Legs Diamond" with word balloon.

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Penciller(s): UPI Newsphoto (photo, credited)

Inker(s): UPI Newsphoto (photo, credited)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Walt Disney (photo); Jawaharlal Nehru (photo)

First Line: And if things don't go well for you in India, Mr. Nehru, there'll always be a spot for you here in Disneyland.

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Notes: News photo with word balloon.

Rhymes for a Modern Nursery

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Paul Dehn (credited)

Penciller(s): Edward Gorey [as E. Gorey] (credited)

Inker(s): Edward Gorey [as E. Gorey] (credited)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Little Miss Muffet; Jack and Jill

Synopsis: Nursery rhymes rewritten to reflect the age of nuclear bombs and radioactive fallout.

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Notes: Illustrations and poems.

Life in a Women's Dormitory

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Writer(s): David Shaber

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Cynthia (photos of Barbara Nessim); Ashley (photos of Jim Hampton); Miss Snipe (photos of Gayle Shepherd); Mr. Filcher (photos of Jim Elting)

Synopsis: A college girl hides her debauched lifestyle of alcohol and drugs from her father; not knowing he's doing the same from her.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Make-up by Dick Smith. Exterior shots were taken at Columbia University.

Goodman, Underwater

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman (credited)

Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman (layout); Will Elder (credited)

Inker(s): Will Elder (credited)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Goodman Beaver

Character(s): Goodman Beaver; Don Quixote; Sancho Panza; Hammer Nelson; Effie

Synopsis: Goodman gets mixed up with Hammer Nelson and his underwater obsession with Russian spies.

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Pages: 8

Notes: A take-off of the "Sea Hunt" TV series. Two vintage illustrations from an edition of "Don Quixote" are used as part of the story.

The Humor of Chas. Dana Gibson

Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Charles Dana Gibson ?

Penciller(s): Charles Dana Gibson (signed)

Inker(s): Charles Dana Gibson (signed)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Cupid

Synopsis: Design for wallpaper suitable for a bachelor apartment; The Turning of the Tide; The Expert: "What makes you think she has one. I can hear nothing."; When a Man's in Love; Frozen: The Damage Wrought by an Icy Heart; Who Cares?

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Pages: 6

Notes: Six full-page illustrations, each with a tagline at the bottom. Not known if Gibson wrote the captions for the cartoons, but they appear to be those of the original publication.

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Writer(s): various (see notes)

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Help's Public Gallery

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Pages: 5

Notes: Cartoons submitted by readers Ted Robins, Ken Winter, ? (Yale Record), John Wehrle; Frank Maquez (2); Roy Walters, Don Edwing, Stewart Schwartzberg (4), R. J. Pelger, Gilbert Shelton, ? (Hendrix College Profile), and Paul Merta.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: She's got to stop reading Tropic of Cancer.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Fernandel (photo)

First Line: You should see what's inside.

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Notes: Movie still from "The Big Chief" with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: You mean some of my flied lice still ain't flied?

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Do the Twist here, will you!

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Genres: humorous, western

First Line: Please give me something—a scrap of meat...a crumb of bread...a tin can...

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Sandra Dee (photo); John Gavin (photo)

First Line: It stands for "Sex."

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Notes: Movie still from "Tammy Tell Me True" with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Vincent Price (photo)

First Line: As we Singalong with Mitch...

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First Line: I'll know... That's who'll know

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Notes: Movie still from "Love and the Frenchwoman" with word balloon.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Sophia Loren (photo)

First Line: Look! It's Roger Maris' 61st!

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Notes: Movie still from "Two Women" with word balloon.

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First Line: This always happens when she cooks something new.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Robert Mitchum (photo); Peter Ustinov (photo); Deborah Kerr (photo); Glynis Johns (photo)

First Line: Did you know my beard was made of yak hair?

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Notes: Movie still from "The Sundowners" with word balloons.

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Help's Satire Box

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Pages: 2

Notes: Two pages of novelties, Help!-related and otherwise, available from The Satire Shoppe, Dept H-14, Box 6573, Philadelphia 38, Pa. Mail-in coupon.

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Feature(s): Help! Magazine

First Line: For those long trips

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Notes: Inside back cover. Promo for subscriptions and back issues of Help! with mail-in coupon. Back issues 50 cents each. Subscriptions 9 issues for $2.95.

Read This!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Help! Magazine

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Notes: Back cover. Black and white hand-written and text word game.