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Issue: Humor Can Be Funny! Magic Whistle: The Mini-Comics Years (1990-1995) #[nn]
Publication Date: August 2005
 
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Publisher: FlagAlternative Comics
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Indicia Publisher: Alternative Comics
On Sale Date: 08/2005
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Pages: 132
ISBN: 1891867415
UPC/EAN: 9781891867415
Price: $11.95 USD
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Content Items: 78 (50 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Some of this material originally or additionally appeared in various formats in Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Duplex Planet Illustrated, Heavy Metal, High Times, Hyena, Kar-Tunz, Nickelodeon, New York Press, Snicker, and various self-published works from 1990-1995. Original edition printed in May, 1996 by Dodecaphonic Books. First printing of this edition, August 2005. Printed in Canada.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover
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Binding: softcover
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FlagHumor Can Be Funny #[nn] published January 1996
FlagHumor Can Be Funny #[nn] published January 1996
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Humor Can Be Funny! Second Edition

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Genres: humorous
First Line: I'm not naked, man! You're the one who's naked! You and your whole generation!!
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[untitled]

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First Line: Humor Can Be Funny! by Sam Henderson
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Humor Can Be Funny! Indicia

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First Line: Special thanks and a toot of the Magic Whistle to Jon Bradley Snyder for originally publishing this book in 1996 under his Dodecaphonics label.
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What's inside

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Yes, it is true that humor can be funny - Unfortunately most of it sucks!

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First Line: An appreciation of Mr. Sam Henderson
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Postal Perversity

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First Line: Next?
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I made a funny!

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First Line: I got a joke for you! It's a hoot!
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The English girl

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First Line: At this party once an English girl walked up to me and said...
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Don't date musicians

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First Line: Hey! I thought of a great idea!
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I loves peoples

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Abused man

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Dave Thomas

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First Line: Here I am in a foreign country trying out new exotic foods!
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Life is so full of whimsical little nuances!

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First Line: Hey! You're under arrest just 'cause for no reason!
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Always Funny
First Line: A drunken santa claus is always funny
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Everything I need to know I learned in seventh grade

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Character(s): Rod Stewart
First Line: Bubble Yum is made from spider eggs
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Hippy high school

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First Line: Siddhartha, you're late for class again!
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Lost

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First Line: Lost
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Nose & eyes

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Violent Act Blamed on Comic Book

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First Line: Spackletown, MI. An 8-year old boy was held in juvenile detention last Friday for dismembering the face of his yougner sister.
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Those loser Generation-X baby buster twentysomething slackers!

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First Line: Hey, you think maybe next time we should heat it in the microwave?
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The cultural elite!

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First Line: The episode of "Diff'rent Strokes" with Gordon Jump as the child molester is on soon!
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Li'l Brainy

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First Line: Incredible! This is absolutely fantastic!
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Size counts!

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You fucking asshole!

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First Line: Hey, dad! You're a fucking asshole!
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Cutout

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Ironically impaired

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First Line: Hey! Ya got any pictures of your wife naked?
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So fucking funny... ...you'll fucking die!

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First Line: At least someone gives two shits about it!
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Feature(s): Always Funny
First Line: A baby driving a car is always funny
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Advertisement

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First Line: Hey, how come women will never fuck us?
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We all know someone just like this

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First Line: I saw "The Big Box" last night.
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Blame it on T.V!

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First Line: I got the idea from Beavis and Butthead!
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Bone job

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First Line: How do you spell relief?
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4 ways to get ahead in business

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First Line: That's funny! Seeing your name in the want ad, I thought you were a man!
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The "F" hat

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Character(s): Roger
First Line: I think I'll buy a novelty hat from some guy in the street!
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The greatest teen movie ever made

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First Line: Teen dreams about making love to beautiful substitute teacher. He wakes up to find dog humping his leg...
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America is the greatest country!

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First Line: Why, without those leeches on your face, y-you're the most beautiful girl at the prom!
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Lame

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First Line: Hey, man! Let's prank Mitch!
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Disclose Notes: Signed "© henderson 3/28/94"
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Watermelon

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First Line: Watermelon, Long green body garden fruit
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Mr. Beeples

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Character(s): Child; Mr. Beeples
First Line: Hello, sweet, tender and very shy adults! This is your uncle Stevie here to bring you the glorious tale [...]
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A lot of funny things exist, as I'm sure you will agree!

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First Line: He thinks he's a parking meter!
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Snoop Doggy Dogg

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First Line: Snoop snoopy dog.
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Lamer

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First Line: Alouet-te gentil alout-te
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Porky's

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Character(s): God
First Line: Pee-Wee's desire to, as he so aptly put it, "lose his cherry" can be interpreted not only as an adolescent rite of passage [...]
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Feature(s): Always Funny
First Line: A public figure's display of pain accidentally becoming the latest dance craze is always funny
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What if

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First Line: Weet-weet-weet!
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The loan

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First Line: Well, everything looks pretty good so far...
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Disclose Notes: Signed "© henderson 6/27/94"
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Dirty Danny's first job

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Character(s): Dirty Danny (Danny Hellman)
First Line: 'Tis a great day when a dirty boy such as I starts his first job!
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The Sally Ricki Riviera show

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First Line: Left-handed cross-dressing hearing-impaired buddhist libertarian golfers who kill their parents with swiss army knives [...]
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Lamest

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First Line: How many buttocks do you have?
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A bunch of old friends get back together again

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First Line: Remember when I told you about that girl at that party six years ago who took her clothes off for $20?
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Has he run out of gags already or has he just gone insane?

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First Line: Thanks for the free food! We're gonna beat you up!
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The goose and the golden egg (revisited) or "E pluribus rectum" (revisited)

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First Line: Hey, how'd you like one hundred dollars?
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Always Funny
First Line: A novice pilot overwhelmed by an abundance of gauges and dials is always funny
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The Always Funny drinking game!

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Feature(s): Always Funny
First Line: Hey, readers! There's a new craze that all the kids are into! This info comes courtesy of Sam Adams of Greenwich, CT...
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America loves slackers!

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First Line: Slackers complain - I just graduated college and I'm only making $400 a week!
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Li'l Boy Reporter

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Character(s): Li'l boy
First Line: Oh my! What a pretty flower! I sure do like to smell flowers!
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Duh

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First Line: Okay - which one of you wrote this?
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Late for school

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First Line: School
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As lame as it gets

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First Line: It's all right 'cause I'm save by the be-e-ell
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Disclose Notes: Signed "© henderson 12/28/94"
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Humor can be funny!

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First Line: I think he likes you!
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Is your child a beatnik?

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First Line: Below are some early warning signs which can determine whether your children are among the many youths joining the dangerous cult of the beat generation.
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Bully

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A funny funny comic

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First Line: Ow! My head hurts!
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Disclose Notes: A four panel comic with tons of made-up credits and an overanalysis.
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The candidate

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First Line: Bruce Lawrence announced today that he will seek the presidency in 1996...
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How your mail gets to us

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Feature(s): Scene But Not Heard
First Line: U.S. mail!
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The sing-a-long beard

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Genres: humorous
First Line: ...I've consulted all the media. Tomorrow we'll have ads on TV, radio, subways, and downtown free weeklies...
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Comics on a plane

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First Line: No! No! That's not supposed to be you!
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Excuses, excuses!

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First Line: I'd have a chance with her if I could lose this crucifix!
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The fire department

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First Line: Eeee! My house is on fire! Help!!
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A modern urban fable

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First Line: My wife left me, I lost my job, my T.V. set broke...
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Rock on!

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First Line: This is a cool song!
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Li'l Street Musician

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First Line: A one and a two and a...
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Covers of the mini-comics from which this book's content appeared

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Disclose Notes: Cover gallery for The Magic Whistle Vol. 1 #1-8.
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Humor can be footnotes

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First Line: 8-9: Drawn while attending School of Visual Arts. Rejected from student publication Will Eisner's Gallery for being too dirty [...]
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To: National Endowment For the Arts

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Dear Sirs: If you give me a grant of $6000 I will spend it on whores for my friends and myself. I will also buy booze and "junk".
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[untitled]

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First Line: That's Sam over there! He draws really funny cartoons. He's not as funny in real life, though.
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[untitled]

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First Line: These are only a few of the backhanded compliments the author has received over the years...
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