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First Line: Er ... it's the man from Edison—there was a malfunction in the electric blanket.

Synopsis: A wife makes a flimsy excuse when her husband catches her in bed with another man.

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Notes: Page 69. Edison reference in punchline refers to either Consolidated Edison or Commonwealth Edison, electric companies based in New York and Chicago, respectively.

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First Line: You were saying at the office today, Miss Dunsmore, that in this troubled world, we must learn to live together.

Synopsis: A man takes a woman's casual comment at the office as an invitation to move in.

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Notes: Page 79. Noteworthy for the time that the woman is African-American and the man is white.

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First Line: Prepare for the worst, Harold, I only took along enough pills for the two-week cruise.

Synopsis: A woman stranded with a man on a desert island after a shipwreck has some bad news.

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Notes: Page 85.

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Genres: historical, humorous

First Line: I'll be right with you, Captain. This will only take a minute!

Synopsis: A member of a Revolutionary War platoon takes time out to see a woman at a tavern.

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Notes: Page 95. Punchline is a play on the phrase "Minuteman."

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First Line: Do you REALLY love me, or are you just infatuated with the fact that you simulate intercourse on stage with me seven times a week?

Synopsis: A stage actress has doubts about her leading man's love for her.

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Notes: Page 105.

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)

Inker(s): Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)

Colorist(s): Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)

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Genres: humorous

First Line: At the Fourth of July picnic, I'm providing the fireworks.

Synopsis: A woman is clad in blue slacks, blue heels, red sash, red and blue headband, and an ultra-sheer white blouse.

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Notes: Pages 112-113. A two-page pin-up. Unusual in that the woman is clothed.

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First Line: Ordinarily, it riles me when young'uns git too big for their britches!

Synopsis: The town loafers are sitting on the porch of a rural Southern general store, watching a young woman walk by who's nearly outgrown her denim shorts.

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Notes: Page 134.

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First Line: Tonight at five-thirty ... on the Uptown Express ... a love-in ... Pass it on.

Synopsis: A strap-hanger on the subway passes on news of a love-in later that day.

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Notes: Page 143.

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First Line: One of the ever-present dangers of being on the vice squad, men, is that there are times when we can't see the trees for the forest!

Synopsis: The head of a police vice squad addresses his men, two of whom are holding hands.

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Notes: Page 144.

Crackjeracks IUD

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Genres: humorous

Synopsis: A young girl finds an intra-uterine device (IUD) as a prize in a box of Crackerjacks snacks.

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Notes: Page 145. A pantomime cartoon. The girl's hand obscures part of the package label, but the brand name is obvious.

[untitled]

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Writer(s): Brian Savage (signed)

Penciller(s): Brian Savage (signed)

Inker(s): Brian Savage (signed)

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Genres: humorous

First Line: I've given you four years at Choate, four years at Princeton and three years at Harvard Business School. Now I'm turning over the business to you. OF COURSE it's bankrupt.

Synopsis: A businessman gives his son an expensive education, then turns the bankrupt family business over to him.

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Notes: Page 146.

Turnabout

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Writer(s): B Kliban (signed)

Penciller(s): B Kliban (signed)

Inker(s): B Kliban (signed)

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Genres: humorous

Synopsis: A pair of man's and woman's clothes make love, while their human bodies are draped over chairs.

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Notes: Page 147. A pantomime cartoon.

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Writer(s): Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)

Penciller(s): Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)

Inker(s): Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)

Colorist(s): Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)

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Genres: humorous

First Line: No, I don't believe in love at first sight. I think we should wait until you take me home.

Synopsis: A woman is receptive to a man's advances at a party, but would prefer to continue at her home.

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Notes: Page 148.

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First Line: I thought I was tired of war movies.

Synopsis: Two men leave a theatre that is has huge posters advertising its current fare—"Gestapo Ladies."

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Notes: Page 150.

Pop Art Operator

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Genres: humorous

Synopsis: A woman is sitting in a swimsuit on a beach towel with Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup can image on it. A man throws his beach towel beside her. It has the image of a can opener on it.

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Notes: Page 151. A pantomime cartoon.

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First Line: You Gordons would do anything to win a bet, wouldn't you?

Synopsis: Two couples are playing golf. When one man prepares to putt, the other man pulls his wife's blouse up to distract him.

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Notes: Page 153.

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Genres: historical, humorous

First Line: And the white man wonders why we never attack at night!

Synopsis: Plains Indians men and women pair off and go to their teepees.

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Notes: Page 154.

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First Line: Please, Arthur ... come back to me.

Synopsis: A wife's husband is living in a kangaroo's pouch.

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Notes: Page 155.

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First Line: Remember that rubbish we learned in high school about the human body being worth only ninety-seven cents?

Synopsis: A woman gets dressed after sex and talks to another woman from the brothel.

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Notes: Page 155. Part of the "Brothel" series.

Double Visions of Script

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Writer(s): Peter Paul Porges [as Porges] (signed)

Penciller(s): Peter Paul Porges [as Porges] (signed)

Inker(s): Peter Paul Porges [as Porges] (signed)

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Synopsis: An actress reads a script while visualizing a virgin praying while being burned at the stake. The director, behind his desk, visualizes the same scene with the woman nude to the waist.

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Notes: Page 160. A pantomime cartoon.

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First Line: Oh, HERE you are, Gloria! I said we'd meet you under the big CLOCK!

Synopsis: A woman mis-hears a meeting place and instead of going to the large clock in the art museum, stations herself under a huge statue of a nude man.

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Notes: Page 161.

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First Line: Beastly sorry about all these interruptions.

Synopsis: A gentleman calmly talks on the telephone after shooting attackers of all types.

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Notes: Page 163.

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First Line: She was a great model!

Synopsis: Two pallbearers bring a long, very thin casket from the church to the hearse after a funeral.

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Notes: Page 164. Punchline is based on the then-current trend for ultra-thin fashion models such as Twiggy.

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Genres: historical, humorous

First Line: Haven't I raped you somewhere before?

Synopsis: A Roman soldier, in the midst of pillaging a city, thinks he recognizes one of his victims from a previous raid.

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Notes: Page 167.

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First Line: I ask you—would I be doing this to you if I didn't have an airtight case?

Synopsis: A lawyer giving his summary to the jury thumbs his nose at them.

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Notes: Page 168.

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Writer(s): ? [as Oldden] (signed)

Penciller(s): ? [as Oldden] (signed)

Inker(s): ? [as Oldden] (signed)

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Thar she blows.

Synopsis: Fishermen in a rowboat see a mermaid on a rock tending to a nude man.

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Notes: Page 169.

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First Line: I just hate the way men undress you with their eyes.

Synopsis: Two young women complain about men leering at them as they walk down the city sidewalk. One woman is wearing an ultra-sheer blouse, the other wears an open-weave crocheted dress, neither of which leaves anything to the imagination.

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Notes: Page 171.

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First Line: That's IT? A TWO-MINUTE mating season?

Synopsis: A female buffalo is upset by the "hit-and-run" mating of the bull buffalo walking away.

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Notes: Page 172.

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First Line: OK, I'll play for you guys, but I want a five-hundred-thousand dollar bonus, a three-year, no-cut contract and fifteen percent of the gate receipts.

Synopsis: In a parody of the scene in Gulliver's Travels where Gulliver is tied down by an army of Lilliputians, this time they are just negotiating with him to play basketball for them.

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Notes: Page 173.

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First Line: Nonsense, Hank. I don't think teenagers are any more promiscuous today than when I was a kid.

Synopsis: A middle-aged man in a deck chair at the nudist camp has a conversation with an older man, at the same time surreptitiously fondling the breast of a young girl sunning herself next to his chair.

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Notes: Page 175. Part of the "Nudist Camp" series.

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First Line: Ralph, leave your wife and children. Run away with me.

Synopsis: A couple in bed has a disjointed conversation after the woman calls the man by the wrong name.

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Notes: Page 177. A three-panel comic story.

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Genres: humorous, western

First Line: As far as I'm concerned, Sheriff, you're one of the bad guys.

Synopsis: A woman in a brass bed berates the sheriff's performance as he's getting dressed.

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Notes: Page 178.

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First Line: I suppose THAT'S not 'crime in the streets'!

Synopsis: Two men walk down the sidewalk and see a sign in a store window advertising "Loans 10 1/2%."

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Notes: Page 180.

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First Line: Uh-uh-uh! Don't touch that dial!

Synopsis: A television announcer makes an comment as a man in bed reaches for a woman's breast.

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Notes: Page 182. The "Don't touch that dial" catch-phrase was common during the days of old-time radio, but was out-dated by the time this was printed.

Slow - Children at Play

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Genres: humorous

Synopsis: A couple in a sports car stops when a naked young boy chases a naked young girl across the road.

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Notes: Page 183. A pantomime cartoon. Sequence title is the sign at the side of the road.

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Genres: humorous, jungle

First Line: That COULDN'T be quicksand, dear, you fell in there over an hour ago!

Synopsis: In the jungle, a man waits patiently for his wife to be swallowed up in a quicksand pit.

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Notes: Page 184.

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First Line: When are you going to make me a star, Mr. Hotchkiss?

Synopsis: A director lives up to his promise to an aspiring actress when, after a session in bed, he cuts a star out of paper for her.

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Notes: Page 186.

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First Line: Hold it—this page is printed upside down.

Synopsis: A woman in bed gets in an awkward position before the man reading a "Guide to Sexual Love" book realizes the page is misprinted.

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Notes: Page 188.

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First Line: Just one little thing. In the ideal city of the future, I don't think we want the main shopping center quite so close to the ghetto.

Synopsis: Two city-planners run into a problem.

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Notes: Page 189.

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First Line: I'm a bed wetter.

Synopsis: A psychiatrist is unsettled when the man on his couch says he's a bed-wetter.

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Notes: Page 191.

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First Line: Before I decide on any deal, I prefer to sleep on it.

Synopsis: A sultan is undecided about buying an addition to his harem.

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Notes: Page 193.

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Writer(s): Brian Savage (signed)

Penciller(s): Brian Savage (signed)

Inker(s): Brian Savage (signed)

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Genres: humorous

First Line: We're going into our landing pattern now. Would you like something to read?

Synopsis: When an airliner goes into its landing pattern, a stewardess hands out reading material for the passengers to pass the time until they actually start landing.

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Notes: Page 194.

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Genres: humorous, religious

First Line: Brother Anthony!

Synopsis: A monk disapproves when the halo over another monk's head is shaped like the medical symbol for woman.

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Notes: Page 195.

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First Line: Blast it, Miss Honan—it's not the third-quarter figures on the Belding account I want—it's YOU!

Synopsis: A businessman can't resist his secretary any longer.

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Notes: Page 196.

Underground Press

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Character(s): Benton Battbarton; Annie Fanny; Ralphie Towzer; Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (cameo)

Synopsis: Spoof of underground newspapers.

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Pages: 3.7

Notes: Story contains Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton one page black and white stories (printed small) created especially for this story at Kurtzman's request. East Village Mother is a play on "East Village Other." Crumb and Shelton stories are indexed separately, with separate page counts. Credits read "by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder." Title from Kurtman's records. Story was originally five pages, but final page was condensed into part of page four by order of Hugh Hefner, who later wished the scene had been edited further. (from annotations in Playboy's Little Annie Fanny (Dark Horse, 2000 series) Volume 2.)

Angelfood McSpade

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Angelfood McSpade

Character(s): Angelfood McSpade; Mr. Natural; Hugh M. Hefner

Synopsis: Angelfood tries to become a Playboy bunny.

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Notes: Black and white story, used in small size as a page of an underground newspaper in Sequence 44. Drawn especially for the Little Annie Fanny story at Harvey Kurtzman's request.

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

Synopsis: The Freak Brothers smoke cannabis and get high.

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Notes: Black and white story, used in small size as a page of an underground newspaper in Sequence 44; part of story copied from "The Freaks Pull a Heist", first printed in Radical America Volume III (SDS, 1969 series) #1. Story used as part of Little Annie Fanny story, created at the request of Harvey Kurtzman.