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Indicia Publisher: HMH Publishing Co. Inc.
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Volume: 16
Pages: 296
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Price: $1.25 USD
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Content Items: 54 (1 story, 0 covers)
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Disclose Notes: Fifteenth Holiday Anniversary Issue.
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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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Great Track Record!

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A track hurdler is distracted by reading Cliff's Notes version of Pygmalion.
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Page 49. Cartoon for ad for Cliff's Notes.
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Do you have any games that can be played in bed by two or more consenting adults?
A woman makes an unusual request at a board games department.
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Hey, man, there's a hair in my eggnog!
In a crowded room of long-haired men and women, a man complains about finding a hair in his drink.
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Oh, hi, dear. Pam and I were just lying here wondering what the new year will bring.
A wife is not amused when she finds her husband making out with another woman in bed and draws a handgun from her purse.
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Santa Claus
You name it, I've got it!
Santa tries to pick up two women at a bar.
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Page 137.
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Santa Claus
Boy, talk about being naughty!
When Santa comes down the chimney, he finds the aftermath of a swinging nude party.
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Er, Frank, you remember Mr. Simpson, the public defender.
A rough-looking man catches his wife in bed with the public defender.
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Let's wait until midnight, so we can start the new year off right.
A man carries a nearly-nude woman to bed, with ten minutes to go before midnight on New Year's Eve.
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We're just helping out during the holiday vacation to pick up a little extra Christmas money.
College girls are working at the brothel during the holidays .
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Page 209. Part of the "Brothel" series.
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I have to go back ... I lost my shoe.
An older man has to retrieve his shoe, which came off by a woman sitting on a park bench.
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Different Imaginations

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Two students are sitting at a library table. The girl is imagining the boy thinking of her clothed. The boy is imagining the girl in the nude.
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Page 213.
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Just WHOSE side are you on, Brother Francis?
A medieval monk is on a ladder painting a mural inside a cathedral, but it consists of devils pursing nude women.
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Executioner Bowling

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A executioner with an axe is bowling. (What he is using to bowl with is not shown.)
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Page 219. A pantomime cartoon.
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I designed it with you particularly in mind, Mrs. Dillman!
A hat-designer gives a woman a hat with a jackass's head on it.
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I object, your Honor! Counsel is leading the witness!
A lawyer is waltzing with a female witness in the courtroom.
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Santa Claus
They're really up tight this year. I got mugged in New York, demonstrated against in Chicago, shot at in Texas and arrested for vagrancy in Seattle.
Santa has a rough trip around the United States in turbulent times.
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They're against phys ed being mandatory in the junior year.
Two bystanders observe a huge college demonstration being suppressed by riot police.
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And one hypothetical question—How would you feel about the war if you were a munitions manufacturer?
A pollster asks a man a loaded question.
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[untitled]

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Actually ... I didn't really shoot him ...
A man has a bearskin rug, complete with tire tracks where he ran over it.
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Rear View

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A woman holds a mirror so a woman in tight ski pants can see how she looks from behind.
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Page 229. A pantomime cartoon.
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Santa Claus
Sorry to bother you, chief, but we had a little disturbance in the dolly works!
Two elves report to Santa with another elf who was caught molesting a doll.
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Checking Under the Covers

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An elderly woman holds a "Marriage Sex Manual" in one hand and raises the blanket with the other to check on her sleeping husband.
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Page 233. A pantomime cartoon.
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Symbolic Sex
Home wrecker!
Ten cartoons using the medical symbols for male and female.
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Page 235. One spot of red color, otherwise black and white.
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Taylor Street? Gee, I dunno ...
An "all-seeing" fortune teller isn't good with directions.
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Page 238.
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I said, 'Question period over'!
At a museum, a school teacher cuts off questions when a youngster wants to ask one about a nude female sculpture.
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[untitled]

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Here's an honest one: It says, 'Wanted: colored college graduate to sit at conspicuous desk in front office of large, hypocritical corporation. $250 per month.'
An African-American couple are sitting at the breakfast table, reading the help-wanted ads.
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Oh, God! It's really been one of those days!
A manager of a department store is upset when the down escalator starts pulling people into the machinery.
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There's a young lady in it!
In a burning building, men in party hats drop a cake with a woman inside down into a net held by firemen.
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Firearms Bumper Sticker

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A man in a car with a "Register Communists Not Firearms" bumper sticker is firing a hand gun out the window at a pursuing police car.
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Page 249. A pantomime cartoon.
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I suppose we're going to have to put up with that dirty snicker for the whole damn year!
At a New Year's Eve party, a woman comments on the "Welcome '69" sign.
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I was thinking ... uh ... Dow Chemical.
A buyer furtively suggests a stock to his broker.
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Page 252. Dow Chemical was not "socially correct," due to its supplying of chemicals to the US military in Vietnam.
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I know they're littler than we are, but that means they can HIDE better.
Two American soldiers in the jungle discuss their Vietnamese enemy.
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Santa Claus
Ho, ho, ho ... you're all busted!
Santa comes down the chimney at a pot-smokers' party and arrests them.
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Don't take any prisoners—I have just enough for us.
A cook in the trenches in World War I tells the soldiers not to take any prisoners because he doesn't have any extra food.
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Freud? Jung? Bah! I'm a De Sade man.
A psychiatrist ties up his female patient on the couch and implies he's going to use a whip on her.
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There are certain rumors going around about you, Knut.
Two ancient sailing warships have fierce figureheads on their prows, while another one has the head of a swan.
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Herbert, this is Mr. Bagwell, my attorney. We want our alimony.
The ex-wife of a department store Santa Claus brings her lawyer with her when she sits on Santa's lap.
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For Your Dog

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A man opens a cannister labeled "For Your Dog." Inside is a companion dog for the man's pet.
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Page 265. A three-panel pantomime story.
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This isn't Shakespeare—but I like it!
A husband comments to his wife about the nude version of the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet they are watching on stage.
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For all I know, you're not from the gas company at all, but a cruel sex maniac intent on taking advantage of the defenseless housewife who's alone in the house and will be for several hours.
A semi-nude housewife makes a come-on to the gas meter reader.
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Santa and Guru

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At a department store there are two lines for children: one for Santa and another for a Guru.
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There goes a VERY sincere individual!!
Two businessmen watch a nude woman walking down the street carrying a "Make Love Not War!!" protest sign.
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For a brief moment, I thought we were witnessing the bright new dawn of a literary renaissance.
Librarians watch people scurrying into the library to escape a sudden downpour.
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Hi! Mind if I join you? I'm the fighting priest who isn't afraid to talk to the young. Maybe you read about me in LOOK.
A self-important priest joins a group at a table in a coffee shop, bragging about being mentioned in a national magazine.
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Page 276. In the Doonesbury newspaper comic strip for 1972-01-10, Rev. Scot Sloan is "Described by Look magazine as 'the fighting young priest who can talk to the young'." (Wikipedia)
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Poor kids! I understand EVERYTHING in their new apartment was faulty and called back.
A young couple sits with their suitcases in an empty apartment.
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Caldwell, here, may well have the answer to 'After Pop Art, What?'!
An artist is painting a large canvas which is focused on a rear view of a nude woman, with emphasis on her buttocks.
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Headless Men in Hall of Fame

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Headless generic businessmen walk between rows of busts of honored predecessors.
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Page 281. A pantomime cartoon.
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You call that DIRTY?
A man is showing pornographic movies to a teen girl. The girl has seen worse.
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I've never read anything quite so moving, and I urge you to accept this offer to merge with Amalgamated Industries.
The head of a publishing company is impressed by the tender offer from a conglomerate.
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He was tall, dark, and inexperienced.
A man sexually assaults a woman, but is so clumsy he leaves the room in a shambles.
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Page 285. The punchline is a play on the phrase "tall, dark, and handsome."
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Well ... it all started when I was just a kid ... a bunch of us were playing and one of them said, 'Hey—let's play doctor' ...
A nurse snuggles with a patient and tells stories from her youth.
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Page 286. First name of cartoonist's signature is not clear.
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In the area of personality, I feel that you as the father can play a particularly key role, with man-to-man talks and an occasional shot to the head.
Advice from a counselor to concerned parents includes a little corporal punishment.
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Edgar, I sense we're drifting apart ...
A husband and wife are sitting on a couch. The wife is reading "Time" and the husband is reading "Newsweek."
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Page 288.
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You certainly look different without your dictation pad, Miss Bloom.
At an office party, a secretary seduces her boss.
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