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Issue: National Lampoon Magazine #50 Age Restricted
Publication Date: May 1974
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Issues: #50 of 223 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagTwenty First Century / Heavy Metal / National Lampoon
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: National Lampoon Inc.
On Sale Date: 1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 104
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.85 USD
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Content Items: 18 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Henry Beard; Michael O'Donoghue; Tony Hendra; Brian McConnachie; Sean Kelly
Disclose Notes: The 50th Anniversary Issue. Funny Pages on tan newsprint on pages 91-97.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white and color interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy; newsprint; other paper stock (varies in each issue)
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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50th Anniversary Issue

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
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Too Many Chiefs?

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Fran Hollidge [as Hollidge] (signed)
Penciller(s): Fran Hollidge [as Hollidge] (signed)
Inker(s): Fran Hollidge [as Hollidge] (signed)
Letterer(s): Fran Hollidge
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Page 8 on tan newsprint. A parody of editorial cartoons, using as many American Indian cliches as possible.
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Another True Western Romance (Part Two)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, western
Character(s): Lolly Barns; Billy Barns; Cecil Barrows; May Barrows; Amando Barrows
Synopsis: A former cowboy gets married and becomes a farmer, whose wife has triplets. Then he's captured by Indians.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Pages 25-28. To be continued. According to the editorial in the next issue, pages two and three were printed out of order.
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Son-o'-God Meets Zimmerman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, religious
Feature(s): Son-o'-God
Character(s): Son-o'-God [Bennie David]; Zimmerman [Bob Dylan]; Devoted Dozen; Moishe Dayan; Golda Meir
Synopsis: While leading his Devoted Dozen though the desert, Son-o'-God has once more died. His body is brought to Jerusalem and put on display in the Zionist War Museum. The Devoted Dozen break into the museum and revive him. The Messiah is welcomed in the Holy City by everyone except Bob Dylan, who becomes the spirit Zimmerman to oppose him.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Pages 31-36. To be continued. No credits for this sequence anywhere in the issue. Comic book parody. Color cover and fake ad (132,000 pc. Roman Catholics Set) on slick paper, and four page color story on newsprint.
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Handicapped Sports

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): (logo)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Pages 51-54 on tan newsprint. Twelve pantomime cartoons involving disabled persons participating in sports.
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Eight Comics in One!

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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: Page 61. A four panel by four panel grid with four stories if read from top down in each column or four stories if read left to right in each row, each column and row with a different genre.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Christopher Cerf ?; Henry Beard ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, opinion
Character(s): Uncle Sam
First Line: Will he shave it off?
Synopsis: A parody editorial cartoon showing Uncle Sam tempted to shave his beard by a Dutch conspiracy.
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Page 63. Part of the "A. U. T. B. D Newletter" (Americans United To Beat the Dutch) on tan newsprint. The whole feature is credited to Christopher Cerf and Henry Beard, with no indication who wrote what.
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Dutch Treachery Laid Bare!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Christopher Cerf ?; Henry Beard ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, opinion
First Line: In past issues, we've told you how the Dutch have been killing our Elm trees...
Synopsis: How the Dutch are destroying America's morals.
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Pages: 1.5
Disclose Notes: Page 65-65. Part of the "A. U. T. B. D Newletter" (Americans United To Beat the Dutch) on tan newsprint. The whole feature is credited to Christopher Cerf and Henry Beard, with no indication who wrote what.
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[untitled]

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Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Foto Funnies
Character(s): Chris Miller (photos)
First Line: All unclothed sitte we often and indulge...
Synopsis: A nude man and woman recite archaic commentary about desire and self-pleasure.
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Disclose Notes: Page 70. Dialogue is all in Olde English.
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An Unsettling Tree

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A road is cut through the middle of a huge tree. A woman in a convertible is unsettled when she notices a penis and testicles hanging from the top of the cut-out.
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Disclose Notes: Page 83. Cartoon is not signed.
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[untitled]

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): David Kaestle (photographer, credited)
Inker(s): David Kaestle (photographer, credited)
Colorist(s): Delores Deluxe (tinting, credited)
Letterer(s): ?; Michael Doret (logo, credited)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Underwear for the Deaf
First Line: It is illegal to insult deaf women in all but fourteen states.
Synopsis: A deaf woman is in a bar in Utah when she thinks she has been insulted.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page 87. Hand-tinted photographs. "Graphics by Alan Rose," which isn't the logo, because that's credited separately.
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Return of the Dodosaurs

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, nature
Synopsis: A variety of silly dinosaurs, accompanied by pseudo-scientific text descriptions.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Pages 88-89. One large two-page drawing.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Nuts
First Line: Remember how different really old people were...
Synopsis: The boy's grandfather teaches him how to chop wood and how to build a fire.
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Subway Streakers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Dirty Duck
Character(s): Dirty Duck; Weevil; Annie Ratt
Synopsis: Annie watches male and female streakers enter a subway entrance, then moves to the next entrance to watch them emerge.
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Disclose Notes: Page 93. 12-panel pantomime story.
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Cheech Wizard Drops his Balls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Bodé's Cartoon Concert
Character(s): Cheech Wizard; SukSukSun; Guru Eartheye
First Line: SukSuk Sun, if we both one in da whole, all, how come I go to pole and don't get to goof?
Synopsis: Guru Eartheye and SukSukSun make a pilgrimage to the swamp to see Cheech Wizard.
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Disclose Notes: Page 94.
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Introduction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): An American Story
Character(s): Arthur Chase; Doris Chase; Cathy Chase; Jeremy Chase; Luis Yépez Bayon; Ramona Placenta Castro Chumez Quijote Bayon; Lars Rasmussen; Theodora Rizzo; Mordecai Gordon; Fred Geste; Samuel F. B. Morse; Mildred Taylor; Oscar Samoorian
First Line: Scene: a four-storied building on a typical street in your city, U. S. A.
Synopsis: An introduction to the characters of the feature.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Feature(s): One Year Affair
Character(s): Jill; Steve
First Line: And here almost six months have passed...
Synopsis: Jill asks Steve if he has any repressed psycho-sexual fantasies.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jeff Jones [as J] (signed)
Penciller(s): Jeff Jones [as J] (signed)
Inker(s): Jeff Jones [as J] (signed)
Letterer(s): Jeff Jones
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Idyl
First Line: I'm not afraid of nothing!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page 97

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