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Issue: ProJunior #1
Publication Date: October 1971
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Adults Only
Publisher: FlagKitchen Sink Press
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Kitchen Sink Enterprises
On Sale Date: 1971
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 26 (23 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Denis Kitchen
Disclose Notes: First printing, October 1971. Second printing, January 1972. Third and fourth printings also exist.
The name "PROJUNIOR" is one word, all capitals, in the indicia. In the stories, it is usually two words "Pro Junior."
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: 6 3/4" x 10 5/8"
Paper Stock: newsprint with glossy paper covers
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Baltimore's Blasphemous Bad Boy!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
ProJunior
Pro Junior; doll; guard
Yer a livesaver, doll!
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Miscellaneous
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Note: "23 Underground Cartoonists" appears on cover of first edition; "22 Underground Cartoonists" appears on later printings.
Cover was inspired by last panel of page 3 of "A Match for Satan" from True Crime Comics (Magazine Village, 1947 series) V 1 #2 (May 1947). (Source: letters page of Mr. Monster's Super Duper Special (Eclipse, 1986 series) #7).
An Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Pilati (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
Recently I was sitting at my desk...
A brief history of the character Pro Junior, created for Don Dohler's fanzine, "Wild," in 1963.
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Inside front cover. Joe Pilati published a Mad fanzine "Smudge" in the early 1960s, the same time as Don Dohler
Perdido Part One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Harmon; Tons-of-Fun Tess
Harmon I'm going to give your ring back...
Harmon slugs Pro Junior after he makes fun of Harmon's severe acne.
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Comic story jam with both artists contributing.
Perdido Part Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Lu Ann
Oboy! Oboy! I called up this colored girl Lu Ann...
Pro Junior drives his hot rod to go on a date with Lu Ann, but three hoods have moved the roadblock where a bridge is out.
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Comic story jam with both artists contributing.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Susy
My, oh my, this is very interesting!
Pro Junior wonders "What is reality?" And gets himself in trouble with his girl friend.
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Bongo Bongo Bongo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Billy Graham (cameo); Adolph Hitler (cameo); Katzenjammer Kids [Hans; Fritz] (cameo); Officer Pupp (cameo)
Each morning a missionary advertisement neon sign...
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A parody of the 1948 pop song "Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo)" by the Andrews Sisters and Danny Kaye, using the song lyrics. Pro Junior is depicted as a jungle resident wearing a leopard skin.
Pro-Junior Tries Yoga

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior
Well... All these manifestations of my formerly dissolute life must go...
Pro Junior tries yoga but his body doesn't like it.
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Pro Junior Learns to Draw!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Trashman (cameo)
I hope this cartoon course ain't a gyp!
Pro Junior takes a drawing course to learn how draw cartoons.
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Miscellaneous
3
Comic story jam by both artists.
Jim Mitchell's Pro Junior Comix

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Robert Crumb (caricature)
Hello. Is Sandy ready?
Pro Junior calls at a communal house to pick up his computer-matched date.
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Miscellaneous
2
Pro Junior and Belinda Berkeley Pull Dat Ole Switcheroo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior; Belinda Berkeley
Pro Junior; Belinda Berkeley
Shit! That does it!
Pro Junior and Belinda change their appearance to get people to treat them differently.
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Rev. Riggins
Yikes!!! I'd better scram!!
Pro Junior tries to escape a gang by sliding down an alley and falling in an open manhole.
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3
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy, humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior
Open up! It's the police!
A surreal chase with both Pro Junior and the police turning into strange flying beings.
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The Jazz Slinger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior
Pro Junior gets some revenge on pigeons that harass him while he's pan-handling.
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Pantomime story.
Juan Cristobal Valdez de ProJunior ...Explorer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
historical, humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Bob Hope (cameo)
The King and Queen will see you now...
A parody with Pro Junior as a Spanish explorer reporting back to the King and Queen.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Dave Dozier [as Dozier] (signed)
Dave Dozier [as Dozier] (signed)
Dave Dozier [as Dozier] (signed)
Dave Dozier [as Dozier] (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Monica
Wow! Today has been my day!
Pro Junior wants to ask Monica to the prom, but takes so long to get to the point that he ends up asking someone else.
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Pro Junior and the Junior Prom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Wendel Pugh (signed)
Wendel Pugh (signed)
Wendel Pugh (signed)
Wendel Pugh (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Kathy; Donna
Hey Progee who ya takin' to the Prom?
The two girls Pro Junior wants to ask to the prom are already taken.
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Miscellaneous
1
Dated 3/71.
Look Out Sinner! Here Comes... ProJunior

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Dave Herring [as DLH] ?
Dave Herring [as DLH] ?
Dave Herring [as DLH] ?
Dave Herring [as DLH] ?
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior
I, ProJunior, have come to this section of town...
Pro Junior, clad in the leopard skin, goes on a crusade against prostitution, but there's a catch.
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Signed "DLH". The only name in the list of contributors on the inside front cover that matches is Dave Herring.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bruce Walthers (signed)
Bruce Walthers (signed)
Bruce Walthers (signed)
Bruce Walthers (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Spud
Cripes!
Pro Junior and his friend get turned away at the adult book store because they're not 21 years-old.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Dale Kuipers (signed)
Dale Kuipers (signed)
Dale Kuipers (signed)
Dale Kuipers (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior
And to ProJunior and all other underacheivers [sic]
Instead of a diploma, Pro Junior gets a one-way ticket to Vietnam, then gets kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.
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"Underachievers" is misspelled in the first line.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior
Recreation facilities for factory workers are woefully inadequate...
Pro Junior, clad in his leopard skin, gets caught up in the rush to get off a subway car.
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Miscellaneous
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Personal Turmoil

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Binky; Snappy Sammy Smoot
Flash! The government just announced suspension of civil liberties...
When the government suspends civil liberties; Pro Junior becomes a leftist terrorist.
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Pro Junior Comix

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy, humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior (as a young boy)
Honey! He won't eat his dinner!
Pro Junior misbehaves at the dinner table. When his parents complain, he turns into an angel and flies away.
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Pro Junior's Little Difficulty

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior; Mr. Toad
Man, I sure hope this toad character's got a together head...
Pro Junior goes to see Mr. Toad about a sexual problem, but finds that Mr. Toad is no help.
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The Good Deed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior
Hey man! I think I see something evil ahead!
Pro Junior finds a half-full bottle of high-powered liquor.
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Liquor is labeled from "The Spiro Agnew Distillery."
Everybody's Wearing Them

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover. Ad for t-shirts with various Jim Mitchell characters on them for $3.99, or $6.49, depending on style. Also small cover reproductions of six Kitchen Sink comics available for 50¢ each, plus 15¢ handling. Krupp Comic Works, 1654 N. Prospect, Milwaukee, Wis. 53202.
Take a Tip from ProJunior, fellas:

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Pro Junior
Pro Junior
Beware of Venereal Disease!
A parody of comics warning against sexually-transmitted diseases.
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Miscellaneous
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Back cover.

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