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Publisher: FlagPlayboy
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Indicia Publisher: HMH Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 14
Pages: 182
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
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Content Items: 43 (3 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s): Hugh M. Hefner (editor, publisher); A. C. Spectorsky (associate publisher, editorial director)
Disclose Notes: "The Underground Press" article by Jacob Brackman on pages 83, 96, 151, 152, 154-157.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: heavy coated paper
Binding: saddle-stitched (v1#1 - v32#9); perfect bound (v32#10 & up)
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Don't tell me! Givenchy? Gernreich? St. Laurent? Cardin?
A woman shows up nude at a party and another woman tries to guess which designer came up with the idea.
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?
Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)
Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)
Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Vargas
Sorry I'm late. Did I hold up the game?
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Pages 78-79. A two-page pinup cartoon. A blonde woman in sandals and white slacks and an unfastened white blouse with red and green trim.
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Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Then I said, 'No, damn it! I've still got some integrity!' and I refused to put in any more meatballs.
A painter shows off his large painting of a birds-eye view of a plate of spaghetti and meatballs.
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Page 82.
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Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
We forgot the picnic basket!
The satyr has brought seven nymphs with him on a picnic, but no one remembered the picnic basket.
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Page 93. Part of the "Satyr" series.
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Gahan Wilson (signed)
Gahan Wilson (signed)
Gahan Wilson (signed)
Gahan Wilson (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Don't worry, Mr. Kiernan—we'll have you out of there in no time!
Medics carry a python out of a zoo, who has apparently swallowed one of the visitors.
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Different Goals

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John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
A young man and woman check into a motel near a beach and disrobe. The girl is disappointed when the boy ignores her and takes a surfboard to the beach.
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Page 107. A six-panel pantomime story.
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Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
This bed cost me $63 in 1964. So far I've made $78,432 profit on it.
One of the brothel girls brags about her old metal frame bed.
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Page 114. One of the "Brothel" series.
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Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Well, it didn't bring rain, but you've got to admit it's one helluva ceremony.
A native American man and woman turn a rain-making ceremony into something erotic.
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Page 121.
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Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
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Subject Matter
opinion
Devil
Congratulations on the Vietnam mess.
A demon in Hell congratulates the Devil on inspiring the Vietnam war.
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Page 122.
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Sad-Eyed and Otherwise

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Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
A painter painting a large "sad-eyed" painting of a girl uses the same effect on her bare breasts.
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Page 124. A pantomime cartoon. A parody of the kitsch paintings by Walter and Margaret Keane that featured faces with large, sad eyes.
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The Call of the Wild

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Subject Matter
drama
A house dog in his bed is reading "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London and is wagging his tail.
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Page 125. A pantomime cartoon.
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?
Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
I don't use Ban Spray Deodorant and I just won the club play-off!
A golfer brags about winning a golf tournament, but a woman is not impressed.
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Page 127. Cartoon is most of an advertisement for Ban Spray Deodorant.
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Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Hey, man, we goofed. It IS bread ... !
Two counterculture teens hold up a bread truck, thinking it contains cash.
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Page 128. Punchline hinges on use of "bread" as slang for money.
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Beer Can Opener in Surgery

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Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous, science and technology
A surgeon is startled to see a beer can opener in the tray of surgical instruments at an operation.
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Page 129. A pantomime cartoon.
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Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Thirty cents a bottle—five cents a sniff.
A seedy hobby shop clerk offers to sell a teen airplane glue by the bottle or by the sniff.
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Page 133. Glue for model airplanes could be used to get high.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Goldilocks
I remember it all just as clearly as if it had happened yesterday. I swear I never suspected for a moment there were bears living in that house. You know how kids are. I smelled porridge, so I went in.
Goldilocks, now an elderly woman, tells the story of the Three Bears to an acquaintance over tea.
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Page 133.
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Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
This is the third-floor conference room. Help!
A woman phones for help as she's being assaulted by a businessman in a business conference room.
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Page 135.
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Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
The redeeming social value is there, all right—it's the pornography that's weak.
A publishing company finds fault with an author's story.
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Page 138.
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Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
This should be interesting.
A man at a bar decides to hit on a woman, who apparently is a bride left at the altar.
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Page 139.
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Dink Siegel (signed)
Dink Siegel (signed)
Dink Siegel (signed)
Dink Siegel (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
We haven't missed anything—here comes the model!
Students at the door of an art school watch as a nude female model dashes inside from the sidewalk.
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Page 140.
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8 Button Temporarily Out of Order

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Credits
Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Sign in an elevator: "8 Button temporarily out of order. Please press 5 and 3"
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Page 143. A pantomime cartoon.
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Credits
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
A nameless dread, eh? That's easily fixed. We have names for everything.
A psychiatrist's answer to a patient's problem isn't reassuring.
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Page 143.
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Credits
Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Frankly, madam, I find it beneath my dignity to discuss safety.
A salesman at a dealership for expensive automobiles isn't concerned with safety.
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Page 145.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Sometimes I wonder about this neighborhood—us being the rich folks in the big house at the top of the hill and all.
Two children in a ramshackle shack with trash in the yard are confused when they are considered the rich people of the neighborhood.
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Page 146.
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Burying a Problem

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Jim Willoughby (signed)
Jim Willoughby (signed)
Jim Willoughby (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
A man goes to the beach with his wife, who is continually nagging him. He starts to bury her in sand, to her approval, but doesn't quit until she's completely covered.
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Page 147. A six-panel pantomime story.
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? [as Huddleston] (signed)
? [as Huddleston] (signed)
? [as Huddleston] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Ha, ha, the joke's on us, Mr. Simpkins—that was the maid—not my husband!
A woman comes back to her bedroom to find that her lover is gone and the apartment window is open.
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Page 148.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Where were the mini-skirts when I needed them?
An elderly businessman regrets being born too early to enjoy mini-skirts.
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Page 149.
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George Dole (signed)
George Dole (signed)
George Dole (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
That's not the only difference.
Two young boys are in an art gallery. One notices that a picture of a nude woman is much larger than the pictures of the landscapes beside it.
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E. Simms Campbell (signed)
E. Simms Campbell (signed)
E. Simms Campbell (signed)
E. Simms Campbell (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
He got the idea on his last visit to the States.
The Sultan dresses some of his harem in Playboy Bunny uniforms.
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Page 153. Part of the "Harem" series.
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Tuba as Periscope

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? [as Toke ?] (signed)
? [as Toke ?] (signed)
? [as Toke ?] (signed)
? [as Toke ?] (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
A man uses a tuba like a periscope to peek through a window at a woman getting undressed.
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Page 154. Artist's name is unclear.
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Edward Frascino [as Frascino] (signed)
Edward Frascino [as Frascino] (signed)
Edward Frascino [as Frascino] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Stop that!
A mother polar bear scolds her cub for pretending he's a rug.
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Page 155.
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Dennis Renault [as Renault] (signed)
Dennis Renault [as Renault] (signed)
Dennis Renault [as Renault] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
You're right, Reverend Pratt. It IS a dirty word!
A pastor finds a dirty word in the tiniest type of an optician's eye chart.
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Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Well, Martha, there goes the egg money ... !
A farmer has to tell his wife he spent some savings for a roll in the hay with a young woman.
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Page 159.
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B Kliban (signed)
B Kliban (signed)
B Kliban (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
We have to stop meeting like this. I'm running out of cookies.
A Girl Scout uses selling cookies as an excuse to meet an older man at his apartment.
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CIA-Free Beggar

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
A beggar sits on the sidewalk, wearing a sign that says "I will not accept money from the CIA," and being showered with money.
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Page 162. A pantomime cartoon.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous, sports
Batter is agent of evil secret organization plotting to rule world. Stick me in his ear.
The baseball is talking to the pitcher as he gets ready to throw to the batter.
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Page 163.
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Credits
Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous, science and technology
All I know is that when it should have gone VROOM-VROOM-POW, it just went tinkle-tinkle-plink ... !
A Formula One race car driver doesn't give his pit crew a very technical diagnosis of the problem with his car.
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Page 165.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
I think it's marvelous you've chosen me to swing in the other direction with.
A woman is happy when a man chooses her when he decides to "change sides," so to speak.
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[untitled]

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Credits
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
By the looks of things, it isn't going to be easy to tell which are the rich ones.
Two women at the nudist camp watching men play volleyball are disappointed that the rich men aren't easy to single out.
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Page 169. Part of the "Nudist Camp" series.
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Walking Dummy

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
A ventriloquist is disturbed when he notices the soles on the shoes of his act's dummy have holes worn in them.
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Page 170. A pantomime cartoon.
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Credits
Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
You know what YOUR trouble is, Kosgriff? You think small!
Two cowboys are walking across the desert. One is leaving much smaller footprints than the other.
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Page 171.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous, war
Oops! Damn! I'm afraid it won't be a friendly village much longer.
A bomber drops its bombs on the wrong village.
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Page 173.
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Americans in Paris

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman (credited)
Will Elder (painting)
Will Elder (painting)
Will Elder (painting); Larry Siegel (assistant)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Little Annie Fanny
Annie Fanny; Benton Battbarton
Spoof of Paris.
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Pages 175-177. Credits read "by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder with Larry Siegel." Title from Kurtzman's records.

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