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Issue: National Lampoon Magazine #70
Publication Date: May 1984
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Issues: #70 of 223 Issues
Title:
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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: 1984
Volume: 2
Pages: 92
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: The Humor Magazine for Adults
Content Items: 22 (12 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s): Kevin Curran; Fred Graver; Peter Gaffney
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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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Baseball 1984 Preview

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, sports
Character(s): Pete Rose
Synopsis: Aging professional baseball play Pete Rose needs a walker to make it to first base as he hangs on trying to beat Ty Cobb's record for most base hits in a career.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: All right, so I made a mistake.
Synopsis: A fisherman comes home to find his wife in bed and a nude fisherman in the closet.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
Penciller(s): ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
Letterer(s): ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Grim Reaper
First Line: Malcom Piester, take one giant step back into the world of the living.
Synopsis: The Grim Reaper plays a game of "Mother May I" with the souls in a graveyard.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Not bad! ...For a duck.
Synopsis: A duck sits at a desk in a large private office and ponders his success.
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Minotaur and Wife

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Genres: fantasy, humorous
Synopsis: A minotaur sits outside his cave, reading a newspaper. His wife, who is nude, has a cow's udder for breasts.
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An Unsettling Sign

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A cat walks away from a small mouse hole in the wall when he sees a much larger hole being sawed from within.
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Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Feature(s): Foto Funnies
First Line: Try the sword in the other arm.
Synopsis: Consultants try to design a new uniform for the Army, starting with a sword, shield, and breastplate and ending up with a half-nude woman.
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P. T. 69: The Adventures of Ted Kennedy in World War II

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, war
Character(s): Ted Kennedy; Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Eunice Kennedy; Bobby Kennedy; Pat Kennedy; Patrick Kennedy; John F. Kennedy (mention)
First Line: Dad, can I have the keys to the car?
Synopsis: Ted Kennedy reminisces about being sent to the Pacific in World War II as a youngster when his brother Jack is listed as missing. He uses the family fortune to buy a boat and outfits it with an all-girl crew to try to find his brother.
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Come in, Wilson. I've traded my phone for some booze. Just another unexpected consequence of the breakup of AT & T.
Synopsis: A businessman get an unexpected benefit from the breakup of the phone company.
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, humorous
First Line: What am I going to do with it?
Synopsis: A caveman invents the wheel, but plans to use it for something other than travel.
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The All-American Barbie Dreamhouse Theater

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Writer(s): Peter Gaffney (credited)
Penciller(s): Robert Lewis (photographs, credited)
Inker(s): Robert Lewis (photographs, credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Barbie; Ken; Kim; P. J.; Spot (dog); Mr. T (host); Marilyn Monroe
First Line: You know, sometimes Jesse Jackson makes a lot of sense...
Synopsis: Barbie and her friends are at her house when zombies attack.
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Well, so long everybody! I'm off to play with the 1969 Chicago Cubs!
Synopsis: A middle-aged man bids his family good-bye on his way to a fantasy baseball camp with the 1969 Chicago Cubs.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Then again, if it did rain, my hair would get all frizzy.
Synopsis: A couple is stranded in the desert and the woman is worried about her hair.
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Detective Zippy Comical Investigations

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Zippy
Character(s): Zippy; Baby Huey; Elizabeth Taylor; Nancy (cameo); Sluggo (cameo)
First Line: That's the whole story - I suspect that former cartoon character Baby Huey...
Synopsis: Someone has been sending obscene "Get Well" cards to Elizabeth Taylor. Zippy goes to Minneapolis to track down the likely culprit--Baby Huey.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Trots and Bonnie
Character(s): Trots (dog); Bonnie
First Line: You wanna come over and watch TV?
Synopsis: Bonnie invites a boy to come over while her parents are gone, but all he wants to do is talk.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Politenessman
Character(s): Politenessman; Jane Fonda (cameo)
First Line: Politenessman and Miss Jane Fonda attend the theater...
Synopsis: A man watching a Shakespearean play has a heart attack and is admonished by Politenessman for disrupting the show.
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Unhandy Man

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Popular Problems
Synopsis: A boy leaves his toys scattered on the floor. His father thinks he'll build a set of shelves, but fails miserably.
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Disclose Notes: Page 85. A parody of Roy Doty's "Wordless Workshop" in Popular Science magazine.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend
Character(s): Ray; UPS man
First Line: Boy! All this weird stuff goin' on!
Synopsis: A kidnapper has stolen Joe and is holding him for ransom. To make matters worse a stranger has sent his ear to Ray and now has changed his mind and wants Ray to forward it on to his newest crush.
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Love and Breakfast

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mimi Pond's Famous Waitress School
First Line: One of the unwritten rules of relationships is...
Synopsis: A waitress is a by-stander while a couple have an argument while eating breakfast.
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Dreamland

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Excursions
Synopsis: A man has strange dreams.
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The Exploitations of Hercules amongst the N. Americans

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Hercules
Character(s): Hercules [Herakles]
First Line: As Apollo begins his daylight ride, we find noble Herakles...
Synopsis: Hercules takes his chariot for a weekend in the country. He is challenged by a couple of dimwits who try to wreck his chariot but quickly find themselves on the losing end.
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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; Helen Appleton
First Line: It's late one evening at the Appleton home and Mrs. Appleton readies herself for bed.
Synopsis: Norm drags his wife to bed, but then gets distracted by bouncing on the mattress.
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