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Issue: National Lampoon Magazine #56
Publication Date: March 1983
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Issues: #56 of 223 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: The Humor Magazine for Adults
Publisher: FlagTwenty First Century / Heavy Metal / National Lampoon
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Indicia Publisher: NL Communications Inc.
On Sale Date: 1983
Volume: 2
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: The Humor Magazine for Adults
Content Items: 19 (14 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s): Kevin Curran; Fred Graver
Disclose Notes: Funny Pages on pages 89-95.
"The Assassination of Garfield" on pages 50-55, a text story by Joey Green and Fred Graver, illustrated by Warren Sattler, contains references to many cartoon cats, ranging from Krazy Kat to Fat Freddy's Cat.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white and color interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy; newsprint; other paper stock (varies in each issue)
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Look at the facts, Stienfeld:
Synopsis: A business man recites a list of unrelated facts over the phone to a colleague.
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Pages: 0.33
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Instead of offering you a dopey little virgin, we thought you'd prefer an experienced woman who's been around!
Synopsis: The chief of a tribe on Pacific island decides to offer their volcano idol an "experienced" woman instead of a virgin. The idol is not pleased.
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Disclose Notes: Page 22. A two-panel comic story.
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Dog Leaping 250 feet, Straight Up

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Very minimalist drawing of a jumping dog, with no background.
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Disclose Notes: Page 24. Pantomime cartoon, which is signed. Name could be John P. Wolf (or not. The last name is not very legible.)
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I don't go any place for the winter--they close the window for the winter.
Synopsis: A parrot explains to a bird on the window sill why he doesn't migrate in the winter.
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Feature(s): Foto Funnies
First Line: Hey, this is interesting! Desmond Morris says here that the reason guys go for big breasts is that they remind us of buttocks!
Synopsis: A man quotes a theory from a book on sex. The woman next to him proves him wrong.
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Disclose Notes: Page 38. Desmond Morris was the author of "The Naked Ape" (1967), a study of human behavior and evolution.
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Satyr on a Park Bench

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Genres: fantasy, humorous
Synopsis: A bearded satyr in a hat and overcoat is lying on a park bench and drinking wine from a bottle hidden inside a paper bag.
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Disclose Notes: Page 58. Pantomime cartoon.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I did that once to a swan. It turned out to be Zeus.
Synopsis: A shepherd is having sex with a sheep. A snake with a human head slithers by and gives him some advice.
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Herbert Crawley, Armageddon M.D.

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Genres: humorous, science fiction
First Line: Armageddon has come to Newberg.
Synopsis: Adventures of a doctor in a nuclear-ravaged city.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Pages 71-76.
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Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Foto Funnies
First Line: Watch out, there's a shocking, unexpected twist in the fifth frame of this Foto Funny.
Synopsis: A woman promises the reader a surprise in a later panel of the comic.
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Disclose Notes: Page 79.
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Hello Zippy, Goodbye Kitty.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Zippy
Character(s): Zippy
First Line: Mommy, please! I want the Hello Kitty hand puppet!
Synopsis: Zippy is distressed by the popularity of Hello Kitty dolls.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Trots and Bonnie
Character(s): Trots (dog); Bonnie; Pepsi
First Line: My fetal acting career is going down the tubes.
Synopsis: Pepsi rewrites the school play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," into a more modern sexy version.
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Disclose Notes: Page 90.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Politenessman
Character(s): Politenessman
First Line: Guilty or Not Guilty? A woman's fate hangs in the balance!
Synopsis: Politenessman is on a jury that has to decide it if a woman is guilty of beating her husband.
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Disclose Notes: Page 91.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Popular Problems
First Line: My twin brother had outdone me for the last time.
Synopsis: A man locks his twin brother in a closet and impersonates him in a performance at Carnegie Hall.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend
Character(s): Ray; Joe; Dorothy
First Line: Ray and Joe are at home watching television...
Synopsis: Joe's widow, Dorothy, gets the life insurance check from Joe's death, and the three go out to a restaurant to celebrate.
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Disclose Notes: Page 92.
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Dealing with Difficult Customers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mimi Pond's Famous Waitress School
First Line: Step one: Don't get upset.
Synopsis: How to deal with unpleasant customers, and how to get revenge if they are still jerks.
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The Big Quarter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, humorous
Feature(s): Excursions
First Line: Come along on a cross-country journey aboard "The Big Quarter"
Synopsis: A fantasy journey across the United States on a giant quarter coin.
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, humorous
Feature(s): Xico "X" Agente Superior
Character(s): Xico "X"
First Line: Xixo "X" has parachuted into Russia and inveigled a policeman to drive him to Moscow.
Synopsis: Xico "X" is catching a ride with a policeman to Moscow when an atomic bomb goes off nearby. Xico "X" nearly blows his cover, but is able to remain undercover by fixing the policeman's car.
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Disclose Notes: Page 94. Part of a continued story. This is presented as a translated foreign strip, with Tod Carroll listed as translator and all the text done in a typewriter monospace font.
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TV Repairman from Outer Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Aunt Mary's Kitchen
Character(s): Aunt Mary
First Line: I am waiting for the television repairman...
Synopsis: Aunt Mary is waiting for a television repairman. When he finally shows up, he appears to be insane.
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Disclose Notes: Page 94. Part of a continued story. Title from the previous episode's "Next Month" blurb.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): B. K. Taylor (signed)
Penciller(s): B. K. Taylor (signed)
Inker(s): B. K. Taylor (signed)
Letterer(s): B. K. Taylor (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Feature(s): The Appletons
Character(s): Norm Appleton
First Line: We open the scene as the elevator door of a large office building closes...
Synopsis: A lady sharing an elevator with Norm is unpleasant and makes the mistake of insulting him. She soon regrets it.
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Disclose Notes: Page 95.

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