NATIONAL LAMPOON database (3) (1978 - 1981)

Vol. 1, #94 (January 1978)

The role of sex in history

 

-  Cover (Farrah Fawcett) – Color illustration by ?

-  Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon by Sam Gross

-  Obscure Latin philosophy – 1 page - Andrew Zimmerman – Includes 1 cartoon by John Caldwell

-  The National – 8 pages - ? - Includes a 1-tier comic (Funny: "Ta-daaa! My latest invention...") by Christopher Browne + a 1-tier comic (Funny: "Man, I hate the taste of coffee") by Christopher Browne

-  Roman scandals – 3 pages - ?

-  Concerned liberal corner – 1 page - Peter Kaminsky – Includes 1 cartoon ("Today's special – Chicken parts") by Bill Woodman

-  The Socratic monologue – 2 pages - Tony Hendra, Sean Kelly – Includes 1 photograph by Phil Koenig

-  Comic: Atlantis solved again – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

-  The 6 blunders of the ancient world – 7 pages - The Editors – Includes color illustrations by Wayne McLaughlin (The hanging gardens of Babylon), Malcolm MacNeil (The upside-down pyramid), John Vargo (The Acropolis at Atlantis), Ted Enik (The great library at Alexandria) (black & white), Larry Elmore (The Trojan horse), Val Mayerik (The colossus of Rhodes)

-  Sex in ancient China – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes illustrations by Maxi T.N. Chan

-  Cartoons: The book of Sam – 3 pages - Sam Gross

-  A true relation of the Inca embassy to the province of New Peru – 3 pages - John Hughes - Includes illustrations by Warren Sattler

-  The map room – 5 pages - Tony Hendra, John Weidman – Includes illustrations by Alan Rose, Bob Larkin, George Stavrinos (The Greek shepherd)

-  Comic: Love's savage passion – 4 pages in color – Danny Abelson + Joe Orlando

-  The golden age of show business – 4 pages - Tony Hendra, John Weidman

-  Milestones in archaelogy – 3 pages - John Heinegg – Includes photographs by Chris Callis

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how sometimes you tended to hold back on breaking news to your parents...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Trots and Bonnie ("I love these fish 'n chips") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  The Aesop Brothers ("He stinks! Put on the CBS movie") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Mule's Diner: Bride of the hunchback – 2 pages – Stan Mack

-  Two year affair – 1 page in color – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  Danger Rangerette ("I know I don't have much to offer") – 1 page in color – Ted Mann + Frank Thorne

 

-  The cretins: Idiot savants of the ancient world – 4 pages - Todd Carroll

-  True Section – 4 pages - ? - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Albert Einstein) by L. Aries

 

-  Comic: Chicken Gutz ("Darn, darn, darn, it's almost noon") – 1 page – Randall Enos

 

 

Vol. 1, #95 (February 1978)

Spring Fascism preview

 

-  Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon ("L'etat, c'est moi") by Sam Gross

-  Letters – 2 pages – Includes 1 cartoon by J. Heine

-  Comic: Clarence Crablouse ("Therein resides an enigma!") - 1/3 page - Bobby London

-  Cartoon ("This thing is filthy") by John Caldwell

-  This is war – 3 pages - ?

- The National – 8 pages - ? - Includes a 1-tier comic (Funny: "You're surprisingly cheerful...") by Christopher Browne + a 1-tier comic (Goobers featuring Bad Bad Leroy Brown: "Heah am de way it works") by Rex May + Warren Sattler

- Cartoon ("Aw, c'mon... nothing is sick if you're married!") by Bobby London

- Fascist food – 4 pages - Tony Hendra – Includes photographs by Phil Koenig, John Barrett

- Comic: Snitchy – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- Comic: Sgt. Nick Penis – Hard-ons for Hitler – 5 pages in color – Ellis Weiner + Russ Heath

- The real Adolf Hitler – 9 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("Sperm bank") by Clarence Brown? + 1 cartoon by John Caldwellv + 1 cartoon ("Cancelled") by Clarence Brown?

- National Socialist Review – 8 pages - Tony Hendra, with Len Albin, Danny Abelson, Ellis Weiner, Sean Kelly, Peter Kaminsky, Jeff Greenfield – Includes a cover illustration by Aislin

- Euronazism – 6 pages - Tony Hendra – Includes models by Luck and Flaw, photographed in color by John Lawrence Jongs

- Toronto Supplement – 8 pages - Ted Mann, Sean Kelly, Brian Sheihan, Alison Gordon – Includes 1 cover color illustration by ?

-  OutSSide – 3 pages - Todd Carroll

-  Surprise poster – 2 pages – Color illustration by Alex Murawski

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember there was this strange person who'd been spotted and wondered about by kids...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Dirty Duck ("My father was a Nazi...") – 1 page – Bobby London

-  Close encounter with... Ronnie – 1 page – Christopher Browne

-  The Aesop Brothers ("Following an argument, Alex tears himself from George!") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

 

-  Cartoons: Men are like animals – 1 page – Sidney Harris

-  True Section – 3 pages - ? - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Christiaan Barnard) by L. Aries

 

 

Vol. 1, #96 (March 1978)

Crime and punishment

 

-  Cover – Photograph in color by Phil Koenig

-  Canadian corner – 3 pages - ? – Includes 1 cartoon ("He's been a deaf-mute all his life...") by Sidney Harris

-  The National – 8 pages - ? - Includes a 1-tier comic (Funny: "'scuse me – I notice you have five fingers") by Christopher Browne + a 1-tier comic (Goobers featuring Bad Bad Leroy Brown: "Howdy! Would yo' white ladies lack to...") by Rex May + Warren Sattler

-  Short hairs – 11 pages - John Weidman – Includes photographs by Peter Kleinman + 1 cartoon by Sidney Harris + 1 cartoon ("If only we could reason with it!") by Christopher Browne + 1 cartoon ("Beach") by John Caldwell + a ¼ page comic (Goobers featuring Bad Bad Leroy Brown: "Heah am de mean-assed gen'ral...") by Rex May + Warren Sattler + a 1/3 page comic (As the tears jerk: Book I, Chapter 2) by Randall Enos

-  New designs for the electric chair – 4 pages - Robert L. Green – Includes color illustrations by Bob Larkin

-  A history of crime in the cinema – 8 pages - Chris Cluess, Stu Kreisman – Includes photographs by Phil Koenig

-  Comic: The Maltese canary – 6 pages - Gerald Sussman + Frank Springer

-  Random, pointless, senseless crimes – 3 pages - John Hughes

-  Corporate advertising: Fill'er up – 2 pages - Peter Kaminsky

-  Famous non-Italians who were never in the Mafia – 2 pages - Marc Warren, Dennis Rinsler – Includes color illustrations by ?

-  Power, guns, blood, and money in Texas – 4 pages - Dan Abelson – Includes photographs by Chris Callis and illustrations by L. Aries

-  Just deserts – The Editors – Includes color illustrations by Julian Allen (Sometimes, Jerry, less is less), Les Katz (Barnard humor), Jan Esteves (It's the Hemingway to go, babe), John Youssi (Every picture tells a story)

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how sometimes you found yourself telling yourself you had to do something...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Chicken Gutz: Close encounter of the fourth kind – 1 page – Randall Enos

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Growling fiercely, Shep bared his teeth at the intruder") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins ("Requested by Peter Kleinman") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Timberland Tales ("When night falls and dreams appear...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

-  Goobers featuring Bad Bad Leroy Brown: "Here's the black revolutionary leader...") by Rex May + Warren Sattler

-  Danger Rangerette ("Secretary of the Interior Andrus...") – 1 page in color – Ted Mann + Frank Thorne

 

-  Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

-  True Section – 3 pages - ? - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Mayor Frank Rizzo) by L. Aries

-  Comic: Nature study no. 1 – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Comic: Chicken Gutz ("Dear reader – turn back now before it's too late") – ½ page – Randall Enos

 

 

Vol. 1, #97 (April 1978)

Spring cleaning

 

-  Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon by John Caldwell

-  Canadian corner – 1 page

-  The National – 8 pages - ? - Includes a 1-tier comic (Funny: "I think you've taken this very well") by Christopher Browne + a 1-tier comic (Funny: "I don't get it") by Christopher Browne

-  Comic: As the tears jerk ("Book I, Chapter 4") – 1/3 page - Randall Enos

-  The autorama – 4 pages - Jeff Greenfield – Includes 1 color illustration by Marvin Mattelson + 1 cartoon ("Beware of the rack rats!") by John Caldwell

-  Comic: The adventure of the fifty percent solution (Sherlock Holmes) – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

-  Combatting the new monogamy – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes color illustrations by Page Wood

-  Comic: Trots and Bonnie – Whiteface – 4 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

-  Comic: The Aseop Brothers - The Old West – 4 pages - Charles Rodrigues

-  Cartoons – 2 pages - Christopher Browne

-  Colonel Bogey – 1 page – Includes illustrations by ?

-  New York Supplement – 8 pages - Gerald Sussman, Danny Abelson, Ellis Weiner, Tod Carroll

-  Cartoons: Son of return to the valley of the cat hammerer – 4 pages - John Walker

-  Birds of Ireland – 3 pages - Ted Mann –Includes color illustrations by Rick Meyerowitz

-  Board game: Six flags over your house – 2 pages - John Hughes, with color illustrations by Frank Furlong

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how sometimes things would unexpectedly get to be a lot bigger...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Chicken Gutz: The punk parlor – 1 page – Randall Enos

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Come on, Bonnie – I want to stay home...") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins ("Rather large nostril") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Danger Rangerette ("Without winning a lottery or anything...") – 1 page in color – Ted Mann + Frank Thorne

 

-  Illustration: April in Paris – 2 pages in color - Alex Murawski

-  True Section – 4 pages - ?

 

 

Vol. 1, #98 (May 1978)

Families

 

-  Cover – Color illustration by Charles Rodrigues

-  Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon ("I hate you, Phyllis...") by Mark Knudsen

-  News on the march – 8 pages - ?

-  Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman

-  Short story: The mystery of the clue in the note about the old Sycamore – 4 pages - Michael Civitello - Includes 1 color illustration by Bob Larkin

-  Comic: The Appletons – 3 pages in color - B.K. Taylor

-  "How did I get here?" – 5 pages - Jeff Greenfield – Includes color illustrations by Rhonda Klapper

-  Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

-  Short story: Earth's fertile yield – 4 pages - Steven Winn – Includes 1 color illustration by Mara McAfee

 

-  Comic: Classics Appropiated - Spritz Family Rubinstein – John Weidman + Val Mayerik

  Cover in color

  Fake ad: Classics College Study Kits – 1 page - ?

  Spritz Family Rubinstein – 6 pages in color

 

-  Comics – 4 pages in color - Claire Bretécher

-  One is enough – 3 pages - Jeff Greenfield

-  Annual newsletter from the Gregory family – 4 pages – Danny Abelson – Includes illustrations by Phyllis Hochberg

-  The family of men install their own acoustical ceiling – 3 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes photographs in color by Chris Callis

-  Rumpus Room rib-ticklers – 2 pages - Chris Cluess, Stu Kreisman

-  The Family Farm Ltd. – 2 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 photograph in color by Phil Koenig and 1 illustration by Woody Harding

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how you were always being fixed by someone or other, people who taught you the right way to do things...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  The Aesop Brothers make another deadline – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Kah thump! Crimes of horror") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Two year affair – 1 tier – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  Timberland Tales – 3 tiers – B.K. Taylor

-  Danger Rangerette ("Danger Rangerette has just returned from Japan...") – 1 page in color – Ted Mann + Frank Thorne

 

-  True Section – 4 pages - ?

 

 

Vol. 1, #99 (June 1978)

The Wild West

(Issue with missing pages)

 

-  Cover – Color illustration by Don Brautigan, from an idea by John Hughes

-  Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 illustration by ?

-  Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 Akai ad (The best-selling reel-to-reel decks since the beginning of recorded history) illustrated by Charles Bragg

-  News on the march – 6 pages - ?

-  Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

-  Even bluegirls get the cows – Ellis Weiner – Includes illustrations by Sol Korby + 1 cartoon ("He forced her back against the hydrant...") by ?

-  Comic: Playing cowboy – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

-  The Indians – 7 pages - Gerald Sussman, John Weidman, John Hughes, with additional material by Ted Mann – Includes color illustrations by Les Katz (33,000 B.C.), Larry Elmore (The Indian vs. the buffalo), Bruce Emmet, Ron Harris, Susanna Kelley (Indian transportation), Warren Sattler

-  Short story: The preacher boys' first roundup or The preacher boys' last ride) - 7 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 4 color illustrations by Bob Larkin

-  The tragedy of the ghettos – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 1 illustration by Ted Enik

-  Our family journey to the West – 7 pages – Tod Carroll, John Hughes, with additional material by Ted Mann – Designed by Lisa Lenovitz – Includes photographs by Pedar Ness

-  Cowboys of many lands - 3 pages – Gerald Sussman – Includes 5 illustrations by Rick Meyerowitz

-  Photo-comic: Shootout – The gunfight at the O.K. Corral through history – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Directed by Peter Kleinman - Photographs by Phil Koenig

-  Cow catchers – 2 pages - Tod Carroll, John Hughes – Includes illustrations by Woody Harding

-  Comic: The Aesop Brothers – Large type edition – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  The farmboys – 1 page - John Hughes – Includes 1 illustration by Malcolm MacNeil

-  True Section – 4 pages - ? - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: General Douglas MacArthur) by L. Aries

-  Humor section - 2 pages - ?

 

-  Comics: Funny Pages – Missing

 

 

Vol. 1, #100 (July 1978)

100^th Anniversary

 

-  Cover – Color illustration by Rick Meyerowitz

-  Canadian corner – 1 page - Ted Mann

-  Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

-  Letters – 2 pages – Includes 1 cartoon (Lovers landfill) by John Caldwell

-  News on the march – 6 pages - ?

-  Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page - Chris Miller

-  Photorama picture news – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 Akai ad (Don't interrupt life's great performances) illustrated by Charles Bragg

-  A Fourth of July Garland of parodies – 7 pages - Danny Abelson & Ellis Weiner – Includes 1 illustration by Steve Brodner

-  Comic: My 100 years with the National Lampoon – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

-  The complete covers of the National Lampoon – 7 pages

-  Lore of the firecracker – 4 pages - John Hughes with P.J. O'Rourke – Includes illustrations by Shary Flenniken, John Workman

-  Cartoons: Sam Gross - A retrospective – 2 pages

-  Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page - Chris Miller

-  100 years or more at the National Lampoon – 5 pages - Gerald Sussman, Jeff Greenfield – Includes illustrations by Lucy Gould (Assassination issue), Bruce Emmett (The 99^th birthday book), Warren Sattler

-  Comic: Growing older comics! – 2 pages in color - Ed Subitzky

-  Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

-  Comic: One hundred years of revulsion! – 4 pages – Charles Rodrigues

-  Born again on the Fourth of July – 7 pages - Tod Carroll, P.J. O'Rourke – Includes illustrations by Larry Elmore (Lesson #1: Basic identification), Frank Springer, Greg King + photographs by Phil Koenig + embroidery by Yolanda Monograms + 1 cartoon ("Knock it off, asshole") by Christopher Browne

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how you actualy 'built yourself' by adding stuff on...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Have you had you pregnancy test yet?") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Bitters – 1 page – Claire Bretécher

-  Chicken Gutz: Love is a many splintered thing – 1 page – Randall Enos

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #82 – The centimeter worm – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  An average love story! – ½ page - Ed Subitzky

-  Two year affair – 1 tier – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  Fraters Aesopus, twinnae Siameseum – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

 

-  True Section – 6 pages - ? - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: George Herman "Babe" Ruth) by L. Aries

 

 

Vol. 2, #1 (August 1978)

Today's teens

 

-  Cover – Color illustration by Mara McAfee

-  Contents – 1 page – Includes a 1-tier comic ("I'm teen-age Tod") by Ed Subitzky?

-  Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("Diaper?") by Christopher Browne

-  News on the march – 5 pages - Danny Abelson & Ellis Weiner

-  Photorama Picture News – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

-  Canadian corner – 1 page – Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon by Sam Gross

-  "Today's teens" frontispiece – 1 page – Color illustration by B.K. Taylor

-  Field guide to young teen-age girls – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes color illustrations by Patty Dryden

-  Comic: How it all finally worked out for teen-agers – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

-  Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page - Peter Kleinman

-  Savvyteen Magazine – 8 pages - Danny Abelson, John Hughes, Tod Carroll, Ted Mann – Includes photographs by Keith Trumbo, Teri Bloom and illustrations by Mary Wilshire

-  Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page - Photographed by Peter Kleinman

-  Ad: "Animal House" movie – 4 pages – Includes a 2-page poster illustrated in color by Rick Meyerowitz

-  Real Teen Magazine – 5 pages - John Hughes – Includes illustrations by Lisa Lenovitz and photographs by Laurie Lenovitz

-  A little learning: National Lampoon report on secondary school education in America – 5 pages - John Weidman, John Hughes, with additional material by Michael Civitello – Includes photographs by Ronald G. Harris and illustrations by ?

-  Then and now – 4 pages - John Hughes – Includes color illustrations by Val Mayerik

-  Comic: The last teenager – 4 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

-  Great works of literature translated for today's teens – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, Jeff Greenfield – Includes photographs in color by Peter Kleinman

-  Photo-comic: An attractive teen-age girl without any clothes on teaches you the latest disco dance craze – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke + Peter Kleinman (Photographs)

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how certain words would automatically activate you...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Accessories – 1 page – Claire Bretécher

-  The funny little egg – 1 page – Randy Jones

-  Two year affair – 1 tier – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  Potboiler comics! – ½ page - Ed Subitzky

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #772 – Snake farts – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Have you had you pregnancy test yet?") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Los Hermanos Aesopito – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Chicken Gutz ("Always awake... always alert!") – 1 page – Randall Enos

 

-  Rebuttals page – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

-  Humor section – 2 pages

-  True Section – 5 pages - ? - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown) by L. Aries

 

 

Vol. 2, #2 (September 1978)

Style

 

-  Cover – Photograph in color by Peter Kleinman

- Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("Sale") by ?

- Canadian corner – 2 pages - Brian Shein, Ted Mann

- News on the march – 5 pages - Danny Abelson & Ellis Weiner

- Photorama Picture News – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

- Akai ad: Introducing six ways to improve your hearing – Includes 1 illustration by Charles Bragg

- "Style Issue" Frontispiece – Color illustration by Larry Elmore

- If heterosexual men ran the women's fashion industry – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke - Includes photographs in color by Phil Koenig

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Comic: In His image – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- Regular Guy Quarterly – 4 pages - Tod Carroll, John Hughes, with additional material by Ted Mann – Designed by Ruthanne Hamill – Includes photographs by Joey Green, Peter Kleinman and illustrations by Tim Belair

- Dress for successfulness – 5 pages - Danny Abelson & Ellis Weiner – Includes illustrations by Tim Belair

- Cartoons: Neat, clean, & well-dressed – 3 pages - Sam Gross

- Full dress court-martial: Judging men by their clothes – 4 pages - John Hughes with P.J. O'Rourke

- Comic: Life cycle of a nylon baseball jacket – 1 page in color Brian Shein & P.J. O'Rourke + Randy Jones

- That crazy-old-lady-with-nowhere-to-live look – 3 pages - Chris Cluess, Stu Kreisman, Peter Kleinman – Includes photographs in color by Chris Callis

- 1979 homo fashion predictions – 2 pages - John Hughes – Includes color illustrations by Andrew George

- What you might have seen if you had peeked up girls' dresses by looking at the toes of their patent leather shoes – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes color illustrations by Greg King

- Comic: Punk generation – 4 pages in color - Joe Schenkman

- Afro sheek – 3 pages - John Weidman – Includes photographs in color by Chris Callis

- "Style Issue" Endpiece – 1 page – Color illustration by Bob Larkin

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how sometimes it was difficult to do what grown-ups had asked you to do...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Then... – 1 page – Claire Bretécher

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins: Previews of coming attractions – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #708 – The man crawling across the desert – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Striptease comics! – ½ page - Ed Subitzky

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #747 – Hard-ons – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Oh wow! Look at those guys!") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

 

-  True Section – 4 pages - ? - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Charles Spencer Chaplin) by L. Aries

 

 

Vol. 2, #3 (October 1978)

Entertainment

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Shary Flenniken

- Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("Boy, could I go for a Cardigan right about now") by Christopher Browne

- Akai ad: Don't interrupt life's great performances – Includes 1 illustration by Charles Bragg

- Canadian corner – 2 pages - Brian Shein, Ted Mann

- News on the march – 6 pages - Danny Abelson & Ellis Weiner

- Photorama picture news – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Marantz ad: Marantz slays foul sound – 1 page – Includes 1 color illustration by M. Hobson

- Comic: The deal – 4 pages in color - Jeff Greenfield + Larry Hama, Ralph Reese, Jim Sherman, Neal Adams

- Movies – Gerald Sussman, Danny Abelson, Chris Cluess, Stu Kreisman

- The all-purpose, everything-in-one, comprehensive, total-entertainment, all-inclusive TV show for the Fall 1978 season – 4 pages - Jeff Greenfield + Photographs in color by Schild/Obremski

- Music – 3 pages - John Hughes – Includes illustrations by George Jartos

- Comic: The greatest show on earth – 3 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- Television – 5 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes illustrations by Mary Wilshire, David Pieratt, Sandra Popovich and photographs by Pedar Ness

- Fake ad: At last! Available in paperback! Novelizations of the current smash-hit everythings! – 5 pages - Ellis Weiner, Chris Cluess, Stu Kreisman – Designed by Woody Harding – Includes illustrations by Bob Larkin

- Porter & Beth – 3 pages - John Weidman with ideas by Stephen Graham, P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 1 color illustration by Linda Conaway

- Cartoons – 2 pages - Sam Gross

- Nosemasks – 2 pages – Written & illustrated in color by Rick Meyerowitz

- Cartoons: A gallimaufry of cartoons for your entertainment – 4 pages - Charles Rodrigues

- The how-to-entertain-yourself guide to emergency-self-amusement in desperately boring situations – 3 pages - John Hughes – Includes illustrations by Shary Flenniken

- Insert: The National Lampoon guide to the Big Ten – 12 pages - Gerald Sussman

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how sometimes you really wondered what was involved in becoming a grown-up...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins: Middleboro, Massachussetts – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Hypno-comics! – 1 tier – Ed Subitzky

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #A-7 – Developing your own characters – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Sure, the job market for teens is tight") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Timberland Tales – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

-  True Section – 4 pages - Tod Carroll - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Sigmund Freud) by L. Aries

 

 

Vol. 2, #4 (November 1978)

The body

 

- Cover – Photograph in color by Phil Koenig

- Editorial – Includes 1 cartoon ("Tattoing reasonable") by Raymond Kursar

- Contents – Includes 1 cartoon by L. Ross

- Akai ad: The best-selling reel-to-reel decks since the beginning of recorded history – Includes 1 illustration by Charles Bragg

- Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman

- News on the march – 7 pages - Danny Abelson & Ellis Weiner

- Photorama picture news – 1 page

- Frontispiece: "The body" – 1 page – Photographs by Pedar Ness

- Short story: My penis – 10 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 color illustration by Bob Larkin + 1 cartoon ("I'm their pet") by Sidney Harris + 1 cartoon ("What do you do?") by Brian Savage + 1 cartoon ("In order") by O'Rourke

- Comic: Capt. Cadaver with korpses for kids – 4 pages - Gahan Wilson

- National Lampoon's exercises for attractive girls - 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes photographs in color by John Barrett

- "She has a wonderful personality": A translation into English – 3 pages - John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke, with Tod Carroll, Gerald Sussman, John Weidman – Includes illustration by Michael Trossman

- How to tell what girls are like under their clothes – 3 pages - John Hughes – Includes illustrations by Trina Robbins

- Bathrooms, women, and what they do in them – 1 page – Tod Carroll – Includes photographs by Peter Kleinman

- Memoirs of a surgeon – 3 pages - John Weidman – Includes photographs by Ken Ambrose, Pedar Ness

- What's new in paranormal medicine – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes photographs by Matthew Klein

- Bathrooms, women, and what they do in them – 1 page – Tod Carroll – Includes photographs by Peter Kleinman

- Pot Mews and Coke Alley – 3 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes illustrations by Steve Brodner

- True body section – 4 pages - Tod Carroll, John Hughes, Michael Olsham, Bill Moseley – Includes a 1-page comic (Real life funnies: Visiting hours at the nursing home) by Stan Mack

- How our bodies develop – 4 pages - John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke, with Jeff Greenfield

- Bathrooms, women, and what they do in them – 1 page – Tod Carroll – Includes photographs by Peter Kleinman

- Endpiece: "The body" – 1 page – P.J. O'Rourke

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how you sort of had to be perpetually ready for whatever the grown-ups might spring on you...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Just think! In twelve hours we'll be in Vienna...") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Good news – 1 page - Claire Bretécher

-  Untitled – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Cryptogram comics! – 1 tier – Ed Subitzky

-  Two year affair – 1 tier – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  Chicken Gutz ("Go down Moses...") – ½ page – Randall Enos

 

- How to examine yourself for breast cancer – 2/3 page - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes photographs by Chris Callis

- Cartoon: The ideal human body – John Hughes + Photograph in color by Phil Koenig

-  True Section – 4 pages - Tod Carroll - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower) by L. Aries

-  Manimals ad – 2 pages in color – Includes color illustrations by Harry Daniel Michael

 

 

Vol. 2, #5 (December 1978)

Food & festivity

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Leslie Cabarga

- Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 illustration by Sam Gross

- Comic: Editorial – 1 page – Tod Carroll

- Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 5 pages - Gerald Sussman

- News on the march – 5 pages - Edited by Danny Abelson & Ellis Weiner

- Photorama Picture News – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page - Ted Mann  

- "Food & festivity" frontispiece – 1 page - John Hughes – Includes 1 photograph in color by Ronald G. Harris

- Modern menus – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, Gerald Sussman, John Weidman – Designed by Lisa Lenovitz

- Comic: How to try and enjoy eating in a fancy restaurant – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- True Food Section – 3 pages - Edited by Tod Carroll – Written by John Hughes, Tod Carroll – Photo research by Bill Moseley

- Fake ad: Senior Vittles – 2 pages – Ted Mann – Includes 1 photograph in color by Dennis Chalkin

- Foods of many nations – 5 pages - John Hughes, Ted Mann, John Weidman, P.J. O'Rourke, Tod Carroll, Ellis Weiner, Danny Abelson, Gerald Sussman – Includes photographs in color by ? + 1 cartoon ("You are him") by Sidney Harris

- Eats – 6 pages - John Hughes with Tod Carroll, Ellis Weiner, John Weidman – Designed by Woody Harding – Includes illustrations by Mary Wilshire, Barbara Fiore

- Comic: They made him eat it! – 1 page in color - John Hughes + Arthur Suydam

- A general history of food fighting – 4 pages – Tod Carroll, P.J. O'Rourke – Includes illustrations by Bruce Emmett, Larry Elmore, Ruthanne Hamill

- Gourmet guide for guys 'n' grads – 3 pages - Danny Abelson & Ellis Weiner – Includes photographs in color by Matthew Klein

- Cartoons: Cuisine de machine – 3 pages - Charles Rodrigues

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Fake ad: Senior Vittles – 1 page – Ted Mann – Includes 1 photograph in color by Dennis Chalkin

- Cartoons: One man's poison – 2 pages - Sam Gross

- Comic: "Food & festivity" endpiece – 1 page in color - B.K. Taylor

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember there were people who were such completely rotten human beings...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  One night with the Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Trots and Bonnie ("We can't buy these cookies... they're full of preservatives") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #4-B – Motion – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Tattooed lady comics! – 1 tier – Ed Subitzky

-  Two year affair – 2 tiers – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  The mills of goddess – 1 page - Claire Bretécher

-  Fat through the ages – 1 page - ?

 

- True Section – 4 pages - Edited by Tod Carroll - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Charles DeGaulle) by L. Aries

- Marantz ad: Marantz slays foul sound – 1 page – Includes 1 color illustration by M. Hobson

 

 

Vol. 2, #6 (January 1979)

Depression

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Sam Gross, upon an idea by Bobby London

- Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon ("I wish I had the time to write like Tolstoy") by Clarence Browne

- Editorial – 2 pages – John Hughes – Includes 1 cartoon by Gahan Wilson

- Canadian corner – 2 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon ("What's good today, Eddie?") by Ziegler

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- News on the march – 5 pages

- Photorama Picture News – 1 page

- "Depression" frontispiece – Tod Carroll, P.J. O'Rourke

- Short stoy: Life in the big city goes on – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 color illustration by Bob Cenedella + 1 cartoon ("Who is it?") by Sam Gross + 1 cartoon ("Thank God you're not the life of the party") by John Caldwell

 

- Comic: Alcoholics Illustrated - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Drunk – Tod Carroll

  Cover in color – John Workman?

  Fake ads: Cap'n Andy Corp + Full-color better-life poster bonanza – 1 page - ?

  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Drunk – 4 pages in color - Tod Carroll + John Workman & Bob Smith

 

- New Year's – 4 pages - John Hughes – Includes photographs by Peter Kleinman

- Comic: Torture the characters comics! – 1 page in color - Ed Subitzky

- What I got for Christmas – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 photograph in color by Phil Koenig – Designed by Ruthanne Hamill

- Comic: A friend in need – 4 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

- Comic: Women – 3 pages in color - P.J. O'Rourke + Arthur Suydam

- And to think you could have been a millionaire – 2 pages - Tod Carroll with Richard Phalon

- Jobs – 2 pages - John Hughes with Tod Carroll – Includes 3 color illustrations by Bob Larkin

- Psychopages – 2 pages - John Weidman – Includes illustrations by Sam Gross, Alison Antonoff, Barbara Morris

- Comic: A night on the town – 1 page in color - Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

- Cartoons: Classic cartoons depressingly drawn – 4 pages - Gahan Wilson

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- "Depression" endpiece – 2 pages - Ed Subitzky – Includes 1 photograph in color by Chris Callis

- Cheer-up Section – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes photographs by Peter Kleinman + illustrations by Lisa Lenovitz

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how grownups tried to invent things for kids to do...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Trots and Bonnie ("My parents think I might be autistic...") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins, in the Communist Party – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  P.J.'s Naked girls telling old jokes ("We're naked girls. And we tell a bunch of really old jokes") – ½ page – P.J. O'Rourke + Russ Heath

-  Read aloud porno comics! – ½ page – Ed Subitzky

-  Rebel without a nose – 2 tiers – Roz Chast

-  Chicken Gutz ("Fans, you may be witness to the first bird throwing up in a comic strip today") – ½ page – Randall Enos

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #2-D – Asses and rams – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Bob the Frog – 1 page – John Caldwell

 

- Humor section: Dirty linen – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

-  True Section – 4 pages - Tod Carroll - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Eleanor Roosevelt) by L. Aries

 

 

Vol. 2, #7 (February 1979)

Heterosexuality

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Mara McAfee

- Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon by Sam Gross

- Canadian corner – 1 page - Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon ("...the sun sank slowly in the West") by John Caldwell

- Humor section: An afternoon with Marie Becloud – 1 page - Stephen Birminghan

- News on the march – 6 pages - Ellis Weiner

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page – Tom Corcoran

- Illustration: "Heterosexuallity" frontispiece – 1 page in color - George Pérez + Terry Austin

- Gay page – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke

- Men's lifetime heterosexual score sheet – 3 pages - John Hughes

- Comic: Dirty Duck ("So this is Bunnyland, eh?") – 4 pages in color – Bobby London

- Very married sex – 4 pages - John Hughes – Includes illustrations by Shary Flenniken + 1 cartoon ("Talk Wallace") by Sidney Harris

- Cartoon: Things Jewish mothers tell their sons about girls – 2 pages - Sam Gross

- Bachelors then and now – 2 pages - John Hughes with color illustrations by Marvin Mattelson

- Comic: One – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- Profile: Mr. Right – 1 page - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 photograph by Peter Kleinman

- Screwing your best friend's wife – 3 pages – Tod Carroll, P.J. O'Rourke – Includes illustrations by Anthony Schultz

- An extensive list of commonly heard funny names for parts of the human body – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, John Hughes, with Tod Carroll, Gerald Sussman, John Weidman

- Give your husband a night on the town without letting him out of the house – 1 page - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 illustration by Larry Ross

- Photo-comic: A visit to Nero's Pleasure Palace – 4 pages in color – Gerald Sussman, Len Glasser, photographed by Peter Kleinman, Skip Johnston

- Comic: Overachiever – 4 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

- Planet of the living women – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, John Hughes – Includes illustrations by Bob Larkin, Ted Enik, Trina Robbins

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Photo-comic: "Heterosexuality" endpiece – 1 page in color - P.J. O'Rourke + Skip Johnston (Photographs)

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how nine times out of ten, grownups had no idea at all...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins: Sex test – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Oh, Trots! A talking bird!") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Dirty Duck ("Weevils love cotton") – 1 page – Bobby London

-  Surprise quiz – ½ page – Roz Chast

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #69 – Bat boobs – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Two year affair – ½ page – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  Out of order porno comics! – 1 tier – Ed Subitzky

-  Mule's Diner: Love story – 1 page – Stan Mack

 

- Is your son growing up to be a fruit? – ½ page - John Weidman

- True Section – 4 pages - Tod Carroll - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Thomas Alva Edison) by L. Aries

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #8 (March 1979)

Chance

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Mara McAfee

- Canadian corner – 1 page - Ted Mann, Doug Kenney – Includes 1 cartoon ("Fart!") by Sam Gross

- News on the march – 6 pages - Ellis Weiner & John Weidman with E.W., J.W., John Hughes, Ted Mann, P.J. O'Rourke

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- "Chance" frontispiece – 1 page – Color illustration by Lucy Gould

- Lady Luck's take-a-chance map of the U.S.A. – 2 pages - Joe Schenkman, P.J. O'Rourke, Tod Carroll – Color illustration by Leslie Cabarga

- Comic: Kids are braver than anybody! – 4 pages in color – Gahan Wilson

- The rich young pretty person's game of life – 3 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes color illustrations by Paul Richer

- Comic: Unchained melodrama: The true story of a man who broke a chain letter – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman + Len Glasser

- How I cheat – 3 pages - John Hughes – Includes illustrations by B.K. Taylor

- How to drive fast on drugs while getting your wing-wang squeezed and not spill your drink – 5 pages - P.J. O'Rourke - Technical consultant- Joe Schenkman – Includes 1 color illustration by George Pérez + 1 cartoon ("Beatrice, over here!") by John Caldwell

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- John and Gerry's potpourri of danger, risk, & daring-do – 4 pages - John Weidman, Gerald Sussman – Includes color illustrations by Larry Elmore

- Photo-comic: Strip poker – 4 pages - John Hughes + Phil Koenig

- Hot horses, cold cash, and track rats – 4 pages – Written & illustrated in color by Joe Schenkman

- Vegas – 5 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 color illustration by Bob Larkin + 1 cartoon ("Put on fresh underwear, dear") by Brian Savage

- Get rich quick – 2 pages - Tod Carroll

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how you noticed yourself becoming more and more involved in stuff...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Trots and Bonnie ("That Danny Zero is really yummy") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Mule's Diner ("Across from Mule's Diner lives George Andreas...") – 1 page – Stan Mack

-  Hot sex porno comics! – 1 tier – Ed Subitzky

-  Two year affair – ½ page – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #C-9 – Tits 'n' zits – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins, still in the Communist Party – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Timberland Tales ("Dat sure was nice of dose air Canada people...") – 1 page – Stan Mott + B.K. Taylor

 

- Valiant fish – 2 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes a 1-tier comic (Max) by Roz Chast

- True Section – 4 pages - Tod Carroll - Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Winston Churchill) by L. Aries

- The Smart Set – 1 page - John Hughes

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #9 (April 1979)

April fool

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Lou Glanzman

- Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon ("Maybe her feet are dirty") by Sam Gross

- Canadian corner – 2 pages - Brian Shein

- The Smart Set – 1 page - John Hughes

- News on the March – 7 pages - John Weidman, Ellis Weiner, with J.W., E.W., Ted Mann, Todd Carroll, John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke

- "April fool" frontispiece – 1 page – Color illustration by Rick Meyerowitz

- Lite Magazine – 8 pages - Gerald Sussman, John Weidman, P.J. O'Rourke, Peter Kleinman – Includes photographs in color by Chris Callis, John Barrett, Phil Koenig, Mark Wright

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Cartoons – 2 pages – Sam Gross

- Photo-comic: Planet of the naked women – 3 pages - P.J. O'Rourke + Ronald G. Harris (Photographs) + Scott MacNeill (Hand coloring) + Bob Rakita (Retouches)

- National Lampoon's salacious items and lewd articles section – Cover photograph by Skip Johnston

- Emergency erotic sources – 1 page - John Hughes

- Cartoons: A peeping tome – 4 pages - Charles Rodrigues

- Sex ads – 1 page - John Hughes – Designed by Ruthanne Hamill

- Home Cardigan Project: A fine sweater you can build in your own workshop – 2 pages - Tod Carroll

- Florida College Spring Vacation Travel Supplement – 5 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, Tom Corcoran – Includes illustrations by Page Wood, Trina Robbins and photographs by Tom Corcoran

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke

- Short story: My vagina – 8 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 color illustration by Bob Larkin

- 1946 Bulgemobiles – 8 pages – Written & Illustrated in color by Bruce McCall

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how there were some things that didn't make sense at first...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  The Aesop Brothers answer your letters – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Dirty Duck ("Well, the gypsy from Poughkeepsie saw the future in her ball") – 1 page – Bobby London

-  Trots and Bonnie ("You're on in five minutes, Pepsi!") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #7 – Facial expressions – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Two year affair – ½ page – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  Dissolve comics! – 1 tier – Ed Subitzky

- The Appeltons ("Bedtime at the Appletons and Mr. Appleton jokingly commands attention") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Ad: Angels Flight – It's extraordinary – 1 page – Color illustration by J. Puchalski

- True Section – 4 pages - Tod Carroll with Susan Rosenthal – Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Ernest Miller Hemingway) by L. Aries

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #10 (May 1979)

International Communism and terrorism

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Raymond Kursar

- The Smart Set – 1 page - John Hughes – Includes 1 cartoon ("Just fucked") by John Hughes + Christopher Browne

- News on the March – 7 pages - Ellis Weiner, John Weidman, with E.W., J.W., John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke, Tod Carroll, Gerald Sussman

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page - Stan Mott

- Comic: International Communism and Terrorism Issue Frontispiece – 1 page in color - Bobby London

- Short story: THUNDERFISH! – Featuring Boris Bond of KGB – 3 pages - John Weidman, Ted Mann – Includes 1 color illustration by Mara McAfee + 1 cartoon ("I am blind") by Warren Sattler

- Pink pages – 16 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, John Hughes, John Weidman, Ted Mann, Tod Carroll, Jeff MacNelly (Soviet fighter plane), Stan Mott (Russian sex aids), Michael Civitello – Includes illustrations by Bobby London, Ted Enik, Frank Springer, Randall Enos, Ruby Mazur + a 1-tier comic (Eric the Red) by Ted Mann + Warren Sattler

- EXPLO '79 – 5 pages - Tod Carroll, Gerald Sussman – Sets designed & built by Tod Carroll and photographed by Chris Callis

- Commies and Terrorists True Section – 3 pages - Tod Carroll

- Comic: The Aesop Brothers in their Revolution Russian – 4 pages - Charles Rodrigues

- The Westernization of China – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes color illustrations by Larry Elmore

- Girls of the Communist bloc – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke with photographs by Chris Callis

- Comic: International Communism and Terrorism Issue Endpiece – 1 page in color - Bobby London

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how sometimes it was difficult to tell which parts of your growing up had actually taken place...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins, in the Communist Party: Decembrist Faction – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  The exciting life of Naug. E. Hyde – 1 page – Roz Chast

-  Trots and Bonnie ("How could you consent to a date with Bubblebutt?") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Tragic love! - 1 page – Ed Subitzky

-  The Appeltons ("Our story opens in the living room of Mr. and Mrs. Appleton") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- True Section – 4 pages - Tod Carroll with Susan Rosenthal – Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb) by L. Aries

- Canadian corner – ½ page - Brian Shein

- Coming next month – ½ page – Includes 1 cartoon ("No, lady, I'm not a Martian") by Sam Gross

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #11 (June 1979)

Kids

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Rowena Morrill

- Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon ("Hey, kid, get lost!") by Sam Gross

- Editorial – Includes 1 cartoon ("Follow the spoor of an animal") by Sam Gross

- The Smart Set – 1 page - John Hughes – Includes 1 cartoon ("Thanks, and if I should see any fire I'll let you know, too") by John Caldwell

- News on the March – 8 pages - John Weidman, Ellis Weiner, with E.W., J.W., John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke, Tod Carroll

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- "Kids" frontispiece – 2 pages - John Hughes – Includes color illustrations by Rick Meyerowitz

- Short story: Big boys – 12 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 1 color illustration by Julian Allen + 1 cartoon ("Perch – Bass – Sardine") by Sidney Harris + 1 cartoon ("What are a lion, Avarice, and a plastic palm doing in Alaska?") by A. Martin?

- Comic: Happy birthday, baby – 4 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

- Kids' own pages – 4 pages - John Hughes – Includes a 1-page comic in color ("Aunt Ron's crafts for boys") by Ron Barrett + Illustrations by Roz Chast, Richard Timperio

- Alice in Regularland – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 4 illustrations by Steve Brodner

- Parents' pages – 4 pages - John Hughes, Tom Corcoran, Gerald Sussman, Judy Corcoran – Includes illustrations by Richard Egielski, Al Rose

- Comic: Nuts – Nothing Funny About It Pages – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- Young bums – 4 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes photographs by Chris Callis

- Comic: Child pornography – 1 page - John Hughes

- Fake ad: Camp directory – 1 page - Gerald Sussman, Sam Gross

- Comic: Don't – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Photo-comic: "Kids" endpiece - How to make a kid of your own – 1 page - John Hughes + Peter Kleinman

- Ad: Angels Flight – It's extraordinary – 1 page – Color illustration by J. Puchalski

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember the huge amount of bluffing you did when you were a kid...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Guarding is tough work...") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins, in the Communist Party: But not for long! – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Mule's Diner ("Hi, Mule. I'm really happy today") – 1 page – Stan Mack

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #38 – D - Hookers – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Two year affair – ½ page – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  Tiny Tale #1 – 1 tier – Roz Chast

-  Timberland Tales ("The month is June in Canada") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Canadian corner – 1 page - Ted Mann

- Coming next month – ½ page – Includes 1 color illustration by Rick Meyerowitz

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #12 (July 1979)

Sports

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Mara McAfee

- Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon in color (Playing Duckpins) by ?

- The Smart Set – 2 pages - John Hughes

- News on the March – 6 pages - John Weidman, Ellis Weiner, with E.W., J.W., John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke, Tod Carroll, Ted Mann

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page – Kathy Workman

- "Sports" frontispiece – Wayne McLoughlin

- The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of participatory sports – 8 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, with Tod Carroll, John Hughes, Ted Mann, Gerald Sussman, John Weidman

- Cartoons: Sexports – 3 pages - Charles Rodrigues

- Weekend athletes in Central Park: The New York jocks – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman + Color illustrations by Rick Meyerowitz

- Specialized Sports Magazines – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman + Photographs in color by John Barrett

- Action golf – 4 pages - John Hughes + Color illustrations by George Pérez

- Comic: Real life adventure – 4 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

- Physical Fitness Section – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman, John Weidman, Tod Carroll – Includes illustrations by ?

- Women athletes – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke + Photographs by Chris Callis

- Comic: Having a good sport – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- Tod Carroll's sports around the world – 2 pages – Includes photographs by Mark Wright

- Uncle P.J.'s indoor page for nonathletic sports-haters – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke – photographs by Peter Kleinman

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how libraries were actually dangerous places...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins: Private detectives! – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Oh, Bonnie! They have your favorite tonight... roast beef!") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  Dirty Duck ("What do you want, bugger?") – 1 page – Bobby London

-  Poor reception comics! – ½ page – Ed Subitzky

-  Steve Draper, custom reupholsterer 1 – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Timberland Tales ("Concerned with the future of the Indian boy...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- True section – 4 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Julius "Groucho" Marx) by L. Aries + 2 cartoons ("Oooooh, baby!") by ?

- Coming next month – ½ page – Includes 1 cartoon ("O.K., sir, everything checks out here") by Sam Gross

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #13 (August 1979)

Vacation

(Issue with missing pages)

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Mara McAfee

- Natlampco's all-inclusive humor caravan – 1 page – Includes 2 color illustrations by Rick Meyerowitz

- Contents – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon ("Customs") by Sam Gross

- Canadian corner – 1 page - Brian Shein – Includes 1 cartoon ("Jonah Wiles legless logger") by Holly K. Tuttle

- News on the March – 6 pages - John Weidman, Ellis Weiner, with E.W., J.W., John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- "Vacation" frontispiece – Idea by Ted Mann, John Weidman – Color illustration by Greg Theakston

- Stewardesses of the emerging nations – 4 pages – Written & Illustrated in color by Bruce McCall

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Cartoons: A paranoid's progress through Germany - A Jew goes back – 4 pages in color - Rick Meyerowitz

- Where to get the best sex in Europe – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes color photographs by Chris Callis

- Vacation travel then and now – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes illustrations by Shary Flenniken

- Comic: Hightlights of my trip to Guatemala – 3 pages in color - Mary Kay Brown

- A girl's letters home from Europe – 5 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 color illustration by Marvin Mattelson

- Comic: The trip of a lifetime – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page – David Obst

- True travel – 3 pages - Tod Carroll, Susan Hoffman

- Let's went to Mexico – 5 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes illustrations by Maira Berman, Carol Bokuniewicz, Tod Carroll and photographs by Phil Koenig

- Traveler's aid – 5 pages - John Weidman, Tod Carroll, Gerald Sussman, P.J. O'Rourke – Includes illustrations by Mary Ann Shea, Warren Sattler

- Road map: Minnebraska – 2 pages – P.J. O'Rourke – Cartography by Alan Rose – Research by Tom Corcoran

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how you could'nt figure out why grown-ups didn't use the terrific, sensational advantages they had") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Genesis: 7,8 – 1 page – Dan O'Neill

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins: Private detectives! ("A Mrs. O'Connell on line two...") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Dirty Duck ("The subways giveth and the subways taketh away") – 1 page – Bobby London

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Don't expect any revelations, Bonnie") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  The Appletons ("Our story begins as we find the Appletons attending church service, and whe hear...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- The great American chuck wagon – 1 page - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 illustration by ?

- The Smart Set – John Hughes

- True Section – 4 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 cartoon (Lives of the great: Abraham Lincoln) by L. Aries

- Photorama Picture Parade – Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #14 (September 1979)

Fall potpourri

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Lou Glanzman

- Contents – 1 page – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Patti) by Roz Chast

- Editorial – Includes illustrations by ?

- The Smart Set – 1 page - John Hughes – Includes a 1-tier comic (Five little tinies) by Roz Chast

- I never met a man I didn't like – 3 pages - Michael Civitello

- News on the March – 7 pages - Ellis Weiner, John Weidman

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Photo-comic: "Fall potpourri" frontispiece – 1 page in color - ?

- Niagara Falls – 5 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 illustration by Alan Rose

- Comic: No laughing matter – 3 pages - Stan Mack

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- The history of tanks – 5 pages – Written & Illustrated in color by Stan Mott

- Short story: Vacation '58 – 7 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 color illustration by Bruce Emmett + 5 cartoons by Holly K. Tuttle

- Comic: Cops, criminals, and court – 3 pages in color - Joe Schenkman

- P.J.'s potpourri – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes a ½ page comic (The unhappiest man in New York) by Shary Flenniken

- Bucket-over-the-head nude photography contest – 1 page – Includes color photographs by ?

- New constellations – 2 pages - Timothy Ferris, P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 1 illustration by Martin Geller

- Toward a larger English language – 2 pages - The Editors

 

- Comic: First Suicide Attempt Comics – Ted Mann + Joe Orlando

  Cover in color

  Fake ad: Famous Readers School can make you interesting! – 1 page - ?

  First Suicide Attempt Comics – 4 pages in color

 

- Photo-comic: "Fall potpourri" endpiece – 1 page in color - ?

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember it wasn't bad enough you had to bother about your eventually becoming one of the grown-ups...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  The Aesop Brothers ("How much to get rid of him?") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Magician comics! – 1 tier – Ed Subitzky

- Hilary ("Here's my new bikini!") – ¾ page – Jody Uttall

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Oh, Bonnie... I see you're not doing anything") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  N.Y. confidential – ½ page – Bryon Preiss + Ralph Reese

-  Politenessman ("Scoop the money in the bag...") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Timberland Tales ("In the North, a trip to a movie is a rare treat") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- True Section – 6 pages - Tod Carroll

- Ad: Nuts ("Hi! Now I'm in a book!") – Includes 1 color illustration by Gahan Wilson

- Coming next month – 1/3 page – Includes 1 cartoon by ?

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #15 (October 1979)

Comedy

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Marvin Mattelson

- Contents – 1 page – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Do tell) by Roz Chast

- Editorial – 2 pages – Includes mini-comics in color (Bubble-gum cards from around the world) by Ron Barrett

- The Smart Set – 2 pages

- News on the March – 5 pages - John Weidman, Ellis Weiner

- Big John's couch-time stories: Three cheers for Dan – 7 pages – John Hughes

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- What America was laughing at: 1900 – 1980 – 5 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, John Hughes – Includes illustrations by Steve Brodner, Leslie Cabarga, Laurie Glick and photographs by Pedar Ness, Chris Callis, Dennis Chalkin

- The funniest people I ever met – 6 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 photograph by Chris Callis

- Where do dirty jokes come from? – 5 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 color illustration by Frank Springer

- Interview with the thirty-five-year-old man – 2 pages - John Weidman, Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 photograph by Dennis Chalkin

- Comic: How to tell a dirty joke to a woman – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke + Gary Hallgren

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- My life of practical joking – 5 pages - Tod Carroll

- Comic: The Appletons ("A rainy morning finds Mr. Appleton minding the children...") – 4 tiers in color - B.K. Taylor

- LaughtHER Magazine – 8 pages - Shary Flenniken, John Weidman, Ellis Weiner – Includes illustrations by Michele Brand (Cover in color + a 1-tier comic: My mom's favorite joke), Barry Simon (Cartoon: "Hey baby! Nice nipples!"), Judy Detroit (a 1-tier comic in color: Harriet the Homemaker), Maira Berman (a ½ page comic in color: Bitter cynical divorced comics), Jody Utall, Charles Vess and photographs by Mark Wright

- Eight ages of humor – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke + Comics in color by Shary Flenniken

- Roller skates – P.J. O'Rourke + Color illustration by Katheryn Holt

- Comic: Humor for your cat – P.J. O'Rourke + Bruce Degen

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how, now and then, you wondered if there was a possibility that none of the grown-ups...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins, private detectives ("I think it's dark enough") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Trots and Bonnie ("Oh, no! Where's my Hard-On magazine?") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  San Diego Transit – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  The Appletons ("It's Halloween night, as Mrs. Appleton prepares to leave with the children") – 1 page - B.K. Taylor

-  P.J.'s Naked girls telling old jokes ("We just love to lie around naked and tell old jokes") – 1 tier – P.J. O'Rourke + Russ Heath

-  A good question – 1 tier – Roz Chast

-  The masked doctor and the secret nurse – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Instructions comics! – ½ page – Ed Subitzky

-  Two year affair – ½ page – Byron Preiss + Ralph Reese

 

- Ad: Nuts ("Hi! Now I'm in a book!") – Includes 1 color illustration by Gahan Wilson

- True Section – 5 pages - Tod Carroll with Susan Rosenthal, Susan Hoffman, Bill Moseley, Larissa Bonfante – Designed by Maira Berman

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page  

 

 

Vol. 2, #16 (November 1979)

Love

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Mara McAfee

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Condensed movies!: Beach party monster) by Ed Subitzky

- Editorial – Includes 1            color illustration by ?

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("I may have gone disco, Mrs. Mullins...") by Ziegler

- Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 illustration by ?

- The Smart Set – 3 pages - ?

- News on the March – 6 pages - John Weidman with J.W., P.J. O'Rourke, Tod Carroll, John Hughes

- Photo-comic: Michael Brennan's true copyright experience – 1 page - Michael Brennan

- Obsessive love – 13 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 7 color illustrations (Brief obsessions) by Mary Ann Shea + 1 cartoon ("Mr. Marpole, the lady is here to mop up") by ? + 1 cartoon ("Pets") by Sam Gross + 1 cartoon ("She's got what we call a sock on the antenna") by John Caldwell + 1 cartoon by ?

- 50 better come-on lines – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 2 photographs by Chris Callis

- Comic: Perfect pickup – 4 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

- Lovebirds – 1 page - Ted Mann, Sean Kelly, with color illustrations by Rick Meyerowitz

- Comic: Love under laboratory conditions – 3 pages - Ted Mann & Blaine Schlosser + Bernie Wrightson

- Love at first sight – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, Susan Devins – Includes color photographs by Michael Gross

- Comic: Do it yourself love – 2 pages in color - Trina Robbins

- The Hughes engagement guide – 4 pages - John Hughes – Includes illustrations by Trina Robbins

- This magic moment (Wedding album) - 8 pages – Tod Carroll, John Weidman – Includes color photographs by Pedar Ness – Designed by Barry Simon

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how you had almost no say-so over how your life was set up...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Come-in-in-the-middle comics! – ½ page – Ed Subitzky

-  Politenessman ("This fuckin' tub is breaking up") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  In someone else's house – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  Hank Two Bears's advice to the lovelorn – ½ page – Holly K. Tuttle

-  22 Houston Street ("Tell my fortune, Whitey?") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Timberland Tales ("Maurice, now being a scout...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- True Section – 2 pages - Tod Carroll with Susan Rosenthal – Designed by Maira Berman

- Coming next month – Includes 1 cartoon ("A major film studio has taken an option on your T-shirt...") by ?

- Movie poster: National Lampoon's animal house ("Guess who's back?") – 1 page – Rick Meyerowitz

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #17 (December 1979)

Success

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Alex Murawski

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (More self-help) by Roz Chast

- Editorial – 2 pages - John Hughes

- Beautiful Christmas-tree ornaments – 2 pages - Ted Mann, P.J. O'Rourke – Includes color illustrations by Seymour Chwast

- Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 4 pages - ? – Includes 1 cartoon ("No, I was wrong!") by John Caldwell

- News on the March – 6 pages - John Weidman, Ellis Weiner

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Bitch goddesses – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes color photographs by George Adams

- The Success Section – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman, John Weidman, P.J. O'Rourke, Dave Spector

- Short story: The little engine that did – 4 pages - Timothy Crouse – Includes color illustrations by Randall Enos

- The woman's undress for success book – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes photographs by Chris Callis

- Comic: Closet at the top – 4 pages in color - Tod Carroll + Ernie Colón, John Workman

- A complete guide to the reception areas of American businesses – 4 pages - John Bendel – Includes illustrations by Bill Wilkinson

- Ladder of success – 2 pages - John Hughes – Includes photographs by James Salzano

- Comic: Buster Snellings III, dope millionaire – 3 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Short story: A modern Christmas carol – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 1 illustration by Steve Brodner

- Comic: Failure – 3 pages in color - John Hughes + Leslie Cabarga

- Illustration: An everyday street scene after we all grew up to be exactly what we'd wanted to be as children – 2 pages in color – P.J. O'Rourke + Ted Enik

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember all of the things grown-ups considered to be absolutely important and vital...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Howlin' moon – 1 page - ?

-  Around the neighborhood in my jungle yacht – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  Politenessman ("Unindetified blips approaching Aleutian Islands!") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  22-24 Houston Street ("You feel okay?") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  The Appletons ("The Christmas spirit is in the air in Greendale...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- The Smart Set – 3 pages - ? – Includes 1 cartoon by John Jonik

- True Section – 3 pages - Tod Carroll with Susan Rosenthal

- Coming next month – ½ page – Color illustration by ?

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #18 (January 1980)

Fantasy

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Rich Grote

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic ("Unicycle") by Roz Chast

- Comic: Editorial – 1 page in color - Shary Flenniken

- Tips and tales from Bernie-X – 4 pages - ? – Includes 1 cartoon ("The game dragged on...") by John Caldwell + 1 cartoon ("Hey, look, you're dying and it's ok") by Brian Savage

- Requiem for a vodka-weight – 3 pages - Ted Mann

- News on the March – 7 pages - John Weidman with J.W., Tod Carroll, John Bendel, P.J. O'Rourke

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- How the world looks to children – P.J. O'Rourke – Includes color illustrations by Alan Rose + Photograph by Bill Dolce, Steve Dolce

- Comic: The civil war between the negroes and the Jews – 4 pages in color - John Hughes + George Evans

- Don Juan revisited – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 photograph in color by James Salzano + 1 cartoon (Kangaroos in a maze) by John Caldwell

- Comic: A love story – 4 pages in color - Mary Kay Brown

- Photo-comic: Lord of the rec room – 4 pages - John Weidman & Gerald Sussman + Ron Barrett

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Comic: My fondest fantasy – First intercourse – 2 pages – John Hughes + Mike Royer

- Common drugs and the fantasies they produce – 3 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 color illustration by Amelia Faulkner

- Illustration: Miscellaneous reverie #1 – 1 page in color - Wayne McLoughlin

- Short story: Reality island – 3 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 illustration by Steve Brodner + 1 cartoon ("Hello. Who will buy my lovely balloons?") by Ziegler

- Six fantasies of Richard Nixon – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 color illustration by Philip Burke

- Illustration: Miscellaneous reverie #2 – 1 page in color - Wayne McLoughlin

- Sex fantasies – 5 pages - Shary Flenniken, Diana Bletter, Bobby London – Includes a ½ page color comic (The sporting lodge) by Chris Kluge + George Pérez - Includes color photographs by Ronald G. Harris

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember the weird rituals your parents made you go through for 'your own good'...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Trots and Bonnie ("I don't think I hate dirty books...") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  The 'cuckold' – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("OK, today we're making Shepherd's Pie") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Untitled – 1 tier – Mark Knudsen

-  Wham! – 2 tiers – Rick Geary

-  Politenessman ("Fire sweeps the Universal World International building") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Cutie Pie: Advice for grown-ups – 1 page – Gerry Capelle

-  Timberland Tales ("A cold dark days envelops the landscape around the cabin of Dr. Rogers") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- The Smart Set – 2 pages - ?

- True section – 3 pages - Tod Carroll with Susan Rosenthal

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #19 (February 1980)

Anniversary issue

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Michael Doret

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Signs of civilization) by Roz Chast

- Big John's couch-time stories: Against his will – 3 pages – John Hughes

- News on the March – 7 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- The Smart Set – 1 page - ? – Includes 1 cartoon ("You really should feel this, Marion") by Mary Kay Brown

- Sir Michael Staig - The sort of man he is – 2 pages - ? – Includes 1 cartoon ("From now on, Mahoney prefers to be called 'A man called Mahoney'") by Bruce Cochran

- Letters – 3 pages – Includes 1 cartoon ("C'mon! Come swimmin'!") by Christopher Browne

- Cruising 1970–1980 – 4 pages - John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 8 color illustrations by Mike Royer

- The seventies – 11 pages - John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke, Tod Carroll, Brian Shein, Susan Devins – Designed by Maira Berman

- Cartoons: Out of sight – 2 pages - Charles Rodrigues

- Cartoons: New faces – 5 pages in color - John Weidman + Rick Meyerowitz

 

- Comic: Rocky Comics  

  Cover in color - ?

  Fake ad: Rockefeller Family T-shirt iron-on transfers – 1 page - ?

  The death of Rocky – 5 pages in color - John Weidman & Timothy Crouse + Brent Eric Anderson (Pencils) + Josef Rubinstein (Inks)

 

- Winners of the nude girl friend with a bucket over her head contest – 4 pages

- The white albumen – 3 pages - Ellis Weiner – Includes 1 cartoon ("Right, Tonto, I'll wait here") by Christopher Browne

- Cartoons: The sickening seventies – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- Mamie Eisenhower death date contest results – 1 page

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Cartoons: Great naval battles of the seventies – 3 pages in color - Tod Carroll + Jeff MacNelly

- Fake movie poster: Towering inflation – 2 pages in color - Timothy Crouse, John Weidman

- The seventies that never happened – 5 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, Tod Carroll – Designed by Barry Simon

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember the first time it dawned on you that there was a good deal of role-playing with grown-ups and kids...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Upstairs/Downstairs – 1 page - Gerry Capelle

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Okay, today we're stuffing a turkey") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("I love vacationing in Japan, the people are so polite") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Trots and Bonnie ("I think I'm getting old, Trots") – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

-  The son-of-a-bitch – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

 

- Mall fair lady – 3 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes illustrations by Roz Chast

- Cartoons: Homos – 2 pages - Sam Gross

- True Section – 3 pages - ?

- Coming next month – ½ page – Includes a cartoon ("It's your mother and she's covered with flies and shit") by Margulies

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #20 (March 1980)

March miscellany

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Richard Timperio

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Degrees of difficulty) by Roz Chast

- The Kennedy lads – 5 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon ("Had you scared there for a second, didn't I, Calvin?") by John Caldwell + 1 cartoon ("Dorian Gray 7N623") by Sam Gross

- News on the March – 7 pages - Ellis Weiner

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Short story: A dog tale – 7 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 color illustration by Page Wood + 1 cartoon ("What have you done with Mrs. Pellagrosso?") by Brian Savage + 1 cartoon ("Let's pretend we're in a different magazine") by Baswell + 1 cartoon by Rick Geary + 1 cartoon by ?

- The Tod Nergint 1-2-3 guitar method – 4 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes photographs by Chris Callis

 

- Comic: First Divorce Comics

  Cover in color – Tod Carroll + George Evans?

  Fake ad: Joan Kennedy – 1 page - ?

  First Divorce Comics – 4 pages in color - Tod Carroll + George Evans

 

- Cartoons: Give me a hand – 1 page - John Caldwell

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Fake ad: Terrier – 1 page – Color illustration by Wayne McLoughlin

- March miscellany – 4 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes a 1-tier comic in color (Underemployed man) by M. Landau/P. Boone?

- Business Jet Magazine – 5 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 color cover illustration by Greg Theakston? + Illustrations by ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- 1980 United States census form – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke

- Comic: Olive's story – 3 pages in color - Gerald Sussman + Matt Golden

- Photo-comic: Doll house for boys – 4 pages in color - Tod Carroll & P.J. O'Rourke + Chris Callis (Photographs) + Scott MacNeill (Hand-coloring)

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember there was also a lot of swell stuff around...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  The man without a county – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Of the people ("Since, as we all know, being President is just another civil service job") – 1 page – Sidney Harris

-  Half-time – 1 page - David B. Simpson

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Today... I don't know") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("High in the Andes, survivors of a plane crash are driven to... cannibalism!") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  The life of a film buff – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  The Appletons ("The Appleton home seems tense as Mrs. Appleton wrings her hands in anxious anticipation...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- The Smart Set – 1 page - Ted Mann

- True Section – 3 pages - Tod Carroll with Susan Rosenthal

- Coming next month – ½ page – Cartoon by Christopher Browne

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #21 (April 1980)

Vengeance

(Issue with missing pages)

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Eraldo Carugati

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Zipping right along) by Roz Chast

- Editorial – 2 pages - Includes 1 cartoon by Sam Gross

- Short story: My despicable dead mother, who ruined my life – 5 pages - Michael Civitelloi

- The Kennedy lads – 1 page - Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon ("I admire your work") by J. Heine

- News on the March – 6 pages - ?

- Motorcycle vengeance – 5 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 1 color illustration by Joel Naprstek + 1 cartoon ("Clement and I met in a French restaurant") by John Caldwell + 1 cartoon ("We have lost our audio forever") by Charles Rodrigues? + 1 cartoon (Zodiac) by Sam Gross

- National vengeance – 4 pages - Tod Carroll, P.J. O'Rourke

- Comic: Gunnar Von Weisen, Jew hunter – 2 pages in color - Tod Carroll + George Evans

- Vengeance is his – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes photographs by James Salzano

- Dominoes of revenge – 2 pages - Brian Shein – Includes color illustrations by Tim Lewis

- Short story: Boy's wrath – 7 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 color illustration by Fred Hinck + 1 cartoon ("Doubt") by Brian Savage + 1 cartoon by John Caldwell + 1 cartoon ("Thank you for not vomiting") by Sidney Harris

- My revenge folder – 4 pages - John Hughes

- Poetic justice – Sean Kelly – Includes illustrations by Ivan Powell

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Comic: The searchers-Part II – 4 pages in color - Gerald Sussman + Bernie Wrightson

- My photo collection – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke + Photographs by Pedar Ness, Bill & Steve Dolce

- Rock 'n' roll hell – 2 pages - Sean Kelly, Shary Flenniken – Includes color illustrations by Jane Sterrett

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember one of the biggest differences between kids and grown-ups was that...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("We're not doing chili relleños today") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("Politenessman is at home") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Matzo ball soup – 1 page – David B. Simpson

-  The nose – ½ page - Gerry Capelle

-  The ordeal of Robert Mitchum – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  22 Houston Street ("What the hell are you doin'"?) – 1 page - Charles Rodrigues

-  Of the people ("Being President is just another civil service job, right?") – 1 page – Sidney Harris

-  Timberland Tales ("Our tale unfolds as we find Dr. Rogers and Kathleen...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- True Section – 2 pages - ?

- Coming next month – ½ page color comic (Sex roles) by Shary Flenniken

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #22 (May 1980)

Sex roles

 

- Cover – Color illustration by ?

- Contents – 1 page – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Bar belles) by Jane Brucker

- Editorial – 1 page – Gerald Sussman - Includes 1 color illustration by ?

- Papa – 4 pages - Michael Civitello – Includes 1 cartoon (Something Chris Browne says is true...) by Christopher Browne

- The Kennedy lads – 1 page - Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon by John Jonik

- News on the March – 6 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies - 1 page

- Short story: Hollywood-Babylonia – 6 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("No chewing during 'Autumn leaves'!") by Ziegler + 1 cartoon by Robert Mankoff

- Short story: Phoenix needs cocktail waitresses – 5 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 color illustration by Dick Brown + 1 cartoon ("Corn flake") by John Caldwell + 1 cartoon ("You certainly were right, Addie") by Barbara Smaller

- Sexual health – 6 pages - Ted Mann

- The Smart Set – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

- Photo-comic: The perfect date – 4 pages in color - Ed Subitzky + Ronald G. Harris

- Comic: Singles bar – 2 pages in color - Mary Kay Brown

- Comic: Marshall William Newton... child of divorce – 4 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

- Home videotape – 4 pages - John Hughes – Includes photographs by ?

- Cartoons: And to think that I saw it on Christopher Street! – 3 pages in color - Gerald Sussman + Rick Meyerowitz

- Sandy Belmont, male nurse – 2 pages - Brian Shein – Includes 1 color illustration by Robert S. Brown

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how there were some things that were so awful you didn't even want to think about them...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Young moderns ("Boy, it's more of a responsibility being a parent than I thought") – ½ page – Paul Anthony + Ralph Reese

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Today you're going to see some more pictures") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  What a way to go – 1 page – David B. Simpson

-  Our holy relic – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  Radio Roulette – ½ page – John Bendel + Spain Rodriguez

-  Politenessman ("On a lonely road in Northern Ireland") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

- Street wise – ½ page – Gerry Capelle

-  Of the people ("It's easy. You enter the civil service...") – 1 page – Sidney Harris

-  The Appletons ("It's Saturday afternoon at the Appletons', as we hear...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- The Sex Section – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman, Michael Civitello – Designed by Maira Berman

- True Section – 3 pages - Tod Carroll with Susan Rosenthal

- Coming next month – ½ page – Includes 1 cartoon by John Jonik

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #23 (June 1980)

Fresh air

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Ed Scarisbrick

- Editorial – 4 pages – Includes 1 cartoon by John Jonik + 1 cartoon ("Bozo's last stand") by Jim Schmalzried

- Letters – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon ("Cold drinks") by Barbara Smaller

- Big John's couch-time stories – 2 pages - John Hughes

- Short story: Orphan Mark's achievement – 7 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon ("Déjà vu") by John Caldwell

- News on the March – 5 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Short story: Dynamite – 6 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 1 color illustration by ? + 1 cartoon by T. Brinton + 1 cartoon ("Blind") by Charles Rodrigues

- Fake ad: Dedelf Products – 2 pages – Written & Illustrated in color by Ron Barrett

- Real-Life Adventure Magazine – 4 pages – John Hughes, Ted Mann – Designed by Barry Simon – Includes a 1-tier comic (Bravest dog in the world) by ?

- Comic: Outdoor sex – 2 pages in color - P.J. O'Rourke + Matt Golden

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Climbing glass – 3 pages - Brian Shein

- Illustration: McLoughlin's Snack and Tackle Shop Calendar – 2 pages in color - Wayne McLoughlin

- Comic: Trots and Bonnie – The therapy pool – 3 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

- Profiles: Coming into the river and giving good craft – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 illustration by Ivan Powell + 1 cartoon ("Medical school equivalency diploma") by ?

- The New Craze Summer Catalog – 4 pages - John Bendel – Designed by Neal Pozner

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how sometimes you could almost see things you planned going wrong from a long distance away...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Of the people ("When the Presidency is just a civil service  job...") – 1 page – Sidney Harris

-  Politenessman ("Behind the walls of state prison") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  P.J.'s Naked girls telling old jokes ("Here we are... those naked girls with just about the oldest jokes in the world. But aren't we adorable the way we tell them?") – ½ page – P.J. O'Rourke + Russ Heath

-  The last time I dropped acid – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Aunt Mary couldn't be with us today") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Rope tricks – 1 page – Gerry Capelle

-  Dirty Duck ("I'd like to see a pump in a size 8") – 1 page – Bobby London

-  Timberland Tales ("We find Maurice and friends at the cabin of Dr. Rogers") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Comic: Drunk hunting – 3 pages in color - Joe Schenkman

- True Section – 3 pages - ?

- The Smart Set – 1 page - Brian Shein – Includes 1 cartoon ("Maybe it's true, what they're saying about me") by Holly K. Tuttle

- Coming next month – ½ page – Includes 1 cartoon by Sam Gross

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #24 (July 1980)

Slime, swill, and politics

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Mark Hess

- Editorial – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon by ?

- Letters – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon ("It's my ears, Doc") by Sidney Harris

- The hot tub – 2 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 cartoon ("Mmm... yes. There's a bizarre quality to your work I find appealing") by ?

- Comic: Budweiser ad – TasteBuds in The Corn Mutiny – ½ page in color – Jack Davis

- Waldo the Talking Porch's real estate mailbag – 2 pages - John Bendel – Includes 1 cartoon ("Wave the stick...") by Tom Cheney

- News on the March – 6 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- An inquiry into the nature of good and evil – 6 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 1 illustration by Greg Scott + 1 cartoon ("What do you think of this...") by ? + 1 cartoon ("You know you're not supposed to be in here...") by Peter C. Vey

- Joe for Mayor – 2 pages - John Bendel

- The Washington Enquirer – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman

- Cartoons: Life in the swamp – 4 pages in color - Rick Meyerowitz with John Hughes

- Operation Jennifer Jones – 4 pages - Michael Civitello

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Fake ad: Veterans of domestic disturbances – 1 page - Tod Carroll

- Op 47601: A CIA investigative file – 4 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes illustrations by Duncan Hannah

- Buck stoppers – 4 pages - Ted Mann

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember the various ways it dawned on you that life was dangerous...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Eugene O'Neill, a biography – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Cowboy Bob – ½ page – Gerry Capelle

-  The "big bruiser" – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  Of the people ("God save the... oops, that's not ours") – 1 page – Sidney Harris

-  Politenessman ("Alien invaders land in a Midwestern town") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Today it's chili relleños as promised") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Dirty Duck ("Stay tuned for 'Police pussies'") – 1 page – Bobby London

-  The Appletons: Gone camping! – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

-  Wet dreams – 1 page – Shary Flenniken

 

- Ethnic jokes for political candidates – 1 page - David Obst with P.J. O'Rourke, David E. Davis Jr.

- Fake ad: The pants-down Republicans – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke

- The Smart Set – 1 page - Brian Shein

- True Section – 3 pages - Tod Carroll with Susan Rosenthal

- Coming next month – ½ page – Includes a cartoon (Anxiety) by Sam Gross

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #25 (August 1980)

Anxiety

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Eraldo Carugati

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Sad day at Anthill) by Roz Chast

- Editorial – 2 pages – Tod Carroll – Includes illustration by Ron Barrett

- Letters – 1 page – Includes 1 cartoon ("Which twin founded Rome? San Francisco?") by ?

- Big John's couch-time stories for men – 9 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 cartoon ("Punk accountants") by ? + 1 cartoon ("Gentlemen – Coats, ties, moustaches") by John Jonik

- I was a stunt man for the Dick Cavett show – 1 page - Brian McCormick –Includes   1 cartoon ("Le promenade des cakes") by Lee Binswanger

- News on the March – 6 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Short story: Crazy people – 5 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 3 color illustrations by Pamela Budz + 2 cartoons ("...two and twenty...three and twenty..." and "Phil's loud socks") by Randall Borchers

- Postcards from mental institutions – 2 pages – Color illustrations by Ron Barrett + Photographs by Bill & Steve Dolce

- Deadwood – 5 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 illustration by Alex O'Neal + 1 cartoon ("Exterminator") by Sidney Harris + 1 cartoon ("Go home, you drunken fool") by Brian Savage

- From the casebook of a WASP psychiatrist – 2 pages - John Hughes

- Comic: Aunt Mary's kitchen ("This is my twin sister Dorothy") – 3 pages in color – Mary Kay Brown

- It came from beneath the sheets - 4 pages – Johnny Trigger – Includes photographs by Christine Olympia Rodin

- Comic: Terminal Hotel – 2 pages in color - Joe Schenkman

- Comic: The agoraphobiac family goes to the Chicago commodities exchange – 3 pages - Tod Carroll + Scott Gillis

- Play: Hypochondria knocks – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes photographs by ?

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how it slowly dawned on you that the grown-ups might not be as alike as they pretended...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  All you can eat – 1 page – Holly K. Tuttle

-  Dirty Duck: How to ignore girls – 1 page – Bobby London

-  Politenessman ("In a swank midtown restaurant") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Today we're going to try a gelatin recipe") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Abbie Hoffman, a biography – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  An evening at the Multiplex – ¼ page – Rick Geary

-  Little inspirational stories – ¾ page – John Bendel + Spain Rodriguez

-  Of the people ("The great American dream") – 1 page – Sidney Harris

-  The Appletons: Doctors care – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Comic: The junior genius show – 1 page in color - B.K. Taylor

- Comic: Being nice – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- True Section – 2 pages - Tod Carroll with Susan Rosenthal

- Coming next month – ½ page – Includes a 1-tier comic ("Damn it, another flat!") by David B. Simpson

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

 

 

Vol. 2, #26 (September 1980)

The past and how it got there

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Mark Hess

- Staff – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Great masterworks) by R. Ankin

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Les très riches heures des pyramides) by ?

- Editorial: Dead boyfriends – 3 pages – Written & Illustrated by Shary Flenniken

- Newsman eulogy, take one – 3 pages - Ellis Weiner

- The past today: A wake for James – 2 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon ("Hey fuck-nose, don't you understand English?") by Peter C. Vey + 1 cartoon ("Whore & Pizza") by ?

- We cover the waterfront – 5 pages - Piers Ackerman, Ted Mann

- Comic: Budweiser ad – TasteBuds – Fresh can of balls – ½ page in color – Jack Davis

- News on the March – 6 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- The hot tub – 2 pages - John Hughes

- Short story: The king of Sandusky, Ohio – 6 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 1 color illustration by Mara McAfee + 1 cartoon ("Ptwee... ptweet!") by Sam Gross + 1 cartoon ("Who are you people?") by Christopher Browne

- Short story: Monsieur de Chien sells out – 5 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 4 illustrations by James Grashow

- Comic: The quake of '33 – 3 pages in color - Rick Geary

- Mrs. Van Rensselaer-Cabot's tame East show – 2 pages - Ted Mann – Includes color illustrations by Robert Crawford

- Short story: Yesterday's teens talk to the teens of today – 3 pages - John Hughes – Includes a collage by Dennis Pohl + 1 cartoon ("Cheops and his friends") by ?

- Jim Wilson's museum – 2 pages in color - Jim Wilson

- Comic: Self-portrait – 2 pages in color - Mary Kay Brown

- Stereopticon views from the top of my body – 2 pages - Shary Flenniken with C. Kluge

- Endangered Americans – 4 pages – Written & Illustrated in color by Joe Schenkman – Includes 1 cartoon (Evolution explained) by Roz Chast

- They weren't all classics – 1 page – Written & Illustrated in color by Wayne McLoughlin

- The history of nudity – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke + Photographs by George Adams

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how loyal you were as a kid...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Joe Marshall recalls his past – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("O.K., today we're going to see a few slides...") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("The bout for the heavyweight championship is about to begin") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Of the people ("Remember President Pierce?") – 1 page – Sidney Harris

-  Just another Friday afternoon... – 1 page – Holly K. Tuttle

-  Dirty Duck ("Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Duck the Magician!") – 1 page – Bobby London

-  Frank Crankcase's time machine – 1 page – Frank Stack

-  Timberland Tales ("In all our lives, that time comes when we look to our roots...") by B.K. Taylor

 

- How to discover two American Presidents that you never knew you had – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke

- Cartoon: A Visigoth explains himself – ½ page – Bernie Wrightson

- True Section – 3 pages - ?

- Coming next month – ½ page – Includes a cartoon ("Thirty days in the electric chair!") by Peter C. Vey

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #27 (October 1980)

Aggression

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Mary Sherman

- Contents – 1 page - Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Mondo Man) by Roz Chast

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon by Tom Cheney

- Can this marriage be saved? – 1 page - Brian McCormick – Includes 1 cartoon by John Caldwell

- Real-life aggression – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("Fill-up, mister?") by ?

- My struggle – 4 pages - Ellis Weiner – Includes 1 cartoon ("Hats") by John Jonik + 1 cartoon ("No parking") by R.G.

- News on the March – 6 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Letters – Includes a ½ page comics ad (Chevy Chase) by ?

- Short story: Ghosts of responsibility – 5 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 4 color illustrations by May Anne Shea + 1 cartoon ("I can't hold this pose forever") by Jane Brucker

- Secret weapons – 3 pages - Brigadier General S.L. Goatlips – Includes color illustrations by Carol Wald

- Halloween rampage – 4 pages - John Hughes

- October 31, 1978 – 6 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 cartoon ("In order") by P.J. O'Rourke + Rick Geary + 1 cartoon (Dogmatism) by Mark Knudsen

- Curses – 4 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 color illustration by ?

- If World War II had been fought like the war in Vietnam – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, Tod Carroll – Includes illustrations by Rick Geary

- Bullies – 3 pages - John Hughes – Includes photographs by Dennis Chalkin

- Sexual harassment: How to do it! – 4 pages - John Hughes, Ted Mann – Includes illustrations by ?

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how sometimes it seemed that the more the grown-ups explained to you about themselves...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Marilyn Monroe, a biography – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Of the people ("Even though you don't marry the President...") – 1 page – Sidney Harris

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("I'm looking for the pictures my brother Leo took in Hawaii") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Contract – ½ page - Gerry Capelle

-  Hilary ("Oh no, there goes my back again!") – 1 page - Jody Uttall + Mary Wilshire

-  Politenessman ("A sinister figure climbs into the bedchamber of Judge Carlson") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  The agony of Charles Van Doren – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  3 AM event – 1 page – Holly K. Tuttle

-  Dirty Duck ("I guess we have no other choice but to commit rape these days, Weevil") – 1 page – Bobby London

 

- True Section – 2 pages - ?

- Who's angrier: Kirk Douglas or George C. Scott? – Brian McCormick, Richard Rosomoff

- Comic: A bill of goods – ½ page – Roz Chast

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #28 (November 1980)

Happy Thanksgiving

 

- Cover – Color illustration by George I. Parrish Jr.

- Contents – 1 page - Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (A little poem) by Roz Chast

- Editorial – 2 pages - Includes a 2-tier vertical comic (What I was thankful for...) by Gil Eisner

- Then again – 2 pages - Ellis Weiner

- An unbattered wife – 1 page - Brian McCormick – Includes 1 cartoon by Robert Mankoff

- The hot tub – 2 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 cartoon ("Mature poet surrounded by young artists...") by ?

- News on the March – 4 pages – Tod Carroll with T.C., Ellis Weiner, John Bendel

- Short story: Olga Korbut had my baby – 6 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 color illustration by Larry Williams

- How your parents had sex – 3 pages - John Hughes – Includes photographs by James Salzano

- Sorority hazing – 1 page - Joey Green, John Hughes – Includes illustrations by Trina Robbins

- World Aggression – 1 page - Nora Quinn, John Hughes

- Status – American regional definitions – 4 pages - John Hughes, P.J. O'Rourke

- Thunderchicken – 6 pages in color - Joe Schenkman

- 250 things to think of when you hear the baby crying – 1 page – Brian Shein

- Cartoons – 2 pages - Robert Mankoff

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how great your imagination was and what fun you could have with it...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Roman Polanski, a biography – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Dirty Duck ("Dear Nancy Friday, I hope the following sexual fantasy will appear in your new book") – 1 page – Bobby London

-  Fun with the Kennedys – 1/3 page – Rick Geary

-  Young moderns ("You really play one hell of a game") – 2/3 page – Paul Anthony + Ralph Reese

-  Politenessman ("Politenessman is driving, at a pruden rate of speed, through the Southland") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("O.K.! We're all set for the slide show...") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  The Appletons: Happy birthday – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

-  Hilary ("Hilary Gwynn? Are you the same Hilary Gwynn who knew Ethan Hartman?") – ½ page - Jody Uttall + Mary Wilshire

 

- Airline safety card – 1 page - Tod Carroll – Includes illustrations by ?

- Send us a photo of your husband's butt – John Hughes – Includes 2 illustrations by ?

- Comic: Junk diets – 2 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- National Lampoon Kustom Kar Krash Klub – 1 page - Joe Schenkman

- True Section – 2 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Coming next month – Includes 1 cartoon (1 BBL. monkeys) by Ron Barrett

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #29 (December 1980)

Fun takes a holiday

 

- Cover – Color illustration by George I. Parrish Jr.

- Contents – 1 page - Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Jane Q. Public) by Jane Brucker

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("Just the usual, please, Tony") by Pete Dredge

- Funny things to do in unfunny situations – 3 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon ("I just ran over your cat") by ?

- The new lite pornography – 2 pages - Hugo Flesch

- Speaking of science – 1 page - Brian Shein – Includes 1 cartoon ("Oh, I'd say it's about three miles off yonder, as the crow flies") by Randall Borchers

- News on the March – 4 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Short story: Christmas '59 – 11 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 color illustration by Richard Williams + 1 cartoon ("Ah, c'mon, Capt'in Bob, don't jump!") by Peter C. Vey + 1 cartoon ("World famous inside-out house") by Rick Geary + 1 cartoon by Mick Stevens + 1 cartoon ("But, John, he's your son!") by Holly K. Tuttle + 1 cartoon ("The little people who made all this possible") by ?

- Short story: A visit to the funny farm – 5 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes photographs in color by ?

- The fat kid's fat camp big fat Fun & Song Book – 2 pages - Brian Shein – Includes illustrations by Karen Loccisano

- Board game: The Monte Carlo international classic fly race – 2 pages - Ted Mann with color illustrations by Doug Taylor

- Desperate fun – 7 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 illustration by Ed Soyka + 1 cartoon ("Where ya goin', wimp?") by Revilo (Oliver Christianson) + 1 cartoon ("Good evening. I've run out of gas") by ? + 1 cartoon by JFC

- Comic: Fun for the sophisticated – 2 pages in color - Ron Barrett

- Short story: Just fooling around – 5 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes color illustrations by Rick Meyerowitz

- Fun tattoos – 2 pages - Shary Flenniken – Includes photographs in color by Tony Fitsch

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember sometimes you figured you were getting along pretty well...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  A murder – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  Jerry Brown, a biography – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  The singing telegram – 1 page – John Bendel + Mary Wilshire

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Dorothy – What's taking them so long?") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("The scene: One of darkest despair") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Young moderns ("See that blond at the next table?") – ½ page – Paul Anthony + Ralph Reese

-  Old friends – 1 tier – Mark Knudsen

-  Timberland Tales ("Christmas Eve is a time for children's dreams to come true") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Comic: There is no fun – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- True Section – 1 page - ?

- Comic: Mexican postcards – 1 page in color – Bill Moseley, Barry Wolk

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #30 (January 1981)

Excess

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Mara McAfee

- Contents – Includes 1 cartoon (The woman who was too thing and too rich) by Elliott Banfield

- Editorial – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Three minor examples of excess in modern life) by Roz Chast

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon (Hadleyville has-beens) by Roz Chast

- Three-minute mysteries – 2 pages - Michael Reiss & Al Jean – Includes 1 cartoon ("Every day, Mr. Carlisle, you say that you heard me scream Rape...") by Tom Cheney

- Pet maintenance and nuclear physics – 1 page - Brian McCormick – Includes 1 cartoon ("Toyota Motors") by Robert Mankoff

- Kicking the gong around – 4 pages - Brian Shein – Includes 1 cartoon ("5 & 10") by John Jonik + 1 cartoon by Sam Gross

- News on the March – 5 pages - Tod Carroll

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Fake ad: Visit the pick of the litter! – 1 page – John Bendel, P.J. O'Rourke

- Short story: Five little suicides – 6 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 4 illustrations by Scott Gillis + 1 cartoon (Baby's first look at daddy's penis) by Peter C. Vey + 1 cartoon ("You have only to glance at my wife's intimate undergarments...") by Brian Savage

- Spotlight on Debbie, our bodie builder of the month – 2 pages - Michael Civitello – Includes photographs in color by ?

- Sexual Excess Section – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke, Gerald Sussman

- Smell Tours of New Jersey – 1 page - John Bendel

- Comic: Election retrospective - Where the winner came from – 3 pages in color - Joe Schenkman

- Comic: Election retrospective - Where the loser came from – 3 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

- Short story: The water fight – 5 pages - John Bendel – Includes 1 color illustration by Teresa Fasolino + 1 cartoon ("This is Harold Nordley speaking") by Mick Stevens + 1 cartoon ("Playing the French horn") by Mick Stevens

- Table of organization of the Federal Government of the United States – 4 pages - Tod Carroll

- The new millionaires – 1 page - John Hughes – Includes photographs by James Salzano

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember realizing that there were times it was possible to win...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  The Aesop Brothers, Siamese Twins, are about to attempt a comeback – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("There! This will make you feel wonderful!") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("Outside City Hall an angry demonstrations is taking place") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Worker ant – 1 page – Bobby London

-  A love story – 1 page - Gerry Capelle

-  The day nothing went right – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  Rich people, poor people – ½ page – P.J. O'Rourke + Spain Rodriguez

-  Growing up – ½ page - Bill Plympton

-  The Appletons ("We look in on Mr. Appleton's business trip...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Cashing in on captivity – 2 pages - Joey Green

- Moderation Section – Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon ("And I represent the forces of moderation") by Brian Savage

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("Which one of you farted?") by Sam Gross

- True Section – 3 pages - John Bendel

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("Ground Zero") by Brian McCormick

- Coming next month – Includes 1 cartoon ("Cookies") by John Jonik

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke

 

 

Vol. 2, #31 (February 1981)

Sin

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Kinuko Craft

- Indicia - Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Ballet made fun and easy) by Jane Brucker

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (The imperfect hostess) by Roz Chast

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("The don't-quit-your-day-job comedic revue") by Barbara Smaller

- Word man at large – 1 page - Ron Wertheimer – Includes 1 cartoon by Tom Cheney

- The old codger – 1 page - Brian McCormick – Includes 1 cartoon ("Men – No hommes – No hombres") by RG

- Cartoon: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – B. Armin

- History pop talk – 1 page - John Bendel – Includes 1 cartoon ("Listen, lady, don't tell us when we've had enough!") by Bill Woodman

- Letters of Evelyn Waugh – 1 page - ?

- News on the March – 6 pages - ?- Includes 1 cartoon (U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.) by Jack Tom

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- A perfect couple – 5 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 4 illustrations by Rosalind Ives

- Girls of New Zealand – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes photographs in color by ?

- Sin sundries – 4 pages - Brian McCormick, P.J. O'Rourke, Michael Civitello – Includes illustrations by Trina Robbins (How naked are girls allowed to get?), Randall Enos (The seven deadly sins, then) and Susan Faiola (The seven deadly sins, now)

- Comic: A change of heart – 3 pages in color - Shary Flenniken

- Illustration: The road to damnation – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke (Text) + Elliott Banfield (Illustration)

- Sleazy sins – 5 pages - John Bendel- Includes photographs by Laura Levine

- Temptations to actual sin – 2 pages - Ted Mann

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how one of the most important things that stuff for kids had to do was to follow the rules...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Hello there! This is Dr. McNouglass calling!") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("There is panic in paradise") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  P.J.'s Naked girls telling old jokes ("A pair of newlyweds are spending their wedding night...") – 1 tier – P.J. O'Rourke + Russ Heath

-  Well-known American types – 1 tier – Mark Knudson

-  Take one – ½ page – Gary Hallgren

-  Chester Bouvier, a biography – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Bar belles ("First I lied to Murphy when I told him...") – ½ page - Jane Brucker

-  Story-time for young folks – ½ page – Uncle Pete

-  Synchronicity – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  Conversations – 1 tier – Mimi Pond

-  Teenage life span – 1 tier – Roz Chast

-  Magic shoes – 1 page - Gerry Capelle

-  Timberland Tales ("One cold evening while Dr. Rogers is away delivering a baby...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Illustration: Sin City, USA – 2 pages in color - Joe Schenkman

- Comic: Future sin – 4 pages in color - Gahan Wilson

- Short story: How I learned to lie – 2 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 color illustration by Mike Wanke

- Cartoons: The sins of Sam Gross – 2 pages - Sam Gross

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- True Section – 3 pages - ?

- Life stories – 1 page – Written & Illustrated by Mimi Pond

- Coming next month – Includes 1 cartoon ("Peep show") by P. Elwell

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?          

 

 

Vol. 2, #32 (March 1981)

Women & dogs

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Bill Woodman

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (The bare minimum) by Roz Chast

- A short play for reader and magazine – 1 page - Ted Mann – Includes 1 cartoon by Sam Gross

- The dummy of Chevy Chase – 2 pages - Brian McCormick – Includes 1 cartoon by John Jonik

- The story of Sabre Dog – 2 pages - John Bendel – Includes 1 cartoon ("Your rose dust gets into everything...") by Peter Steiner

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("Annual Runlikeagirl Marathon") by Revilo (Oliver Christianson)

- News on the March – 6 pages - ? – Includes 1 cartoon (Seabed of disparity in the U.S.) by Jack Tom

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Mad dogs & Englishwomen – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman

- The complete contents of a woman's purse – 3 pages - John Hughes, Tod Carroll – Includes photographs by Bill & Steve Dolce

- Dogs behind bars – 4 pages - Brian McCormick with Tod Carroll

- Comic: The return of the paramedic man – 2 pages in color - Matt Golden

- Whitehouse Wife: Mrs. Reagan's diary – 4 pages - Ted Mann

- Black superstars rate the white wives – 1 page - David Obst, P.J. O'Rourke

- My favorite dogs – 2 pages - John Bendel – Includes color illustrations by Howard Nostrand

- How women make decisions – 5 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes photographs by Ronald G. Harris

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how, even if you tried as hard as you could, some people were impossible to understand?") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Deirdre Callahan, a biography 1 ("Her story begins in the maternity section of a metropolitan hospital") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Politenessman ("At the Iron Curtain") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Around the house – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  Bob & Margaret – 1 page - Gerry Capelle

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Doctor, look! He's still hallucinating!") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Kit and Caboodle – ½ page – Roz Chast

-  Thanks, negroes, for all these things! – 1 page – Joe Schenkman

-  Bar belles ("Promise not to tell?") – ½ page - Jane Brucker

-  The do walk – ½ page – Bill Woodman

-  The Appletons ("A Saturday morning finds Mr. Appleton in an upstairs bedroom...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Dog's page: A harsh note of protest from three dogs – 1 page - Brian McCormick

- Illustration: Good sense... good times – 1 page in color – Harvey Kurtzman

- Marriage contract and wedding license – 2 pages - Tod Carroll, John Hughes

- Women's page: The care and feeding of a boyfriend – 1 page – Written & Illustrated by Jane Brucker

- Common breeds of North American women – 2 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes color illustrations by Trina Robbins

- Life stories – 1 page – Written & Illustrated by Mimi Pond

- Comic: Wife hunting – 3 pages - P.J. O'Rourke + Shary Flenniken

- True Section – 3 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Coming next month – Includes 1 cartoon ("For a dervish, you're not much of a whirler") by Sam Gross

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?          

 

 

Vol. 2, #33 (April 1981)

Chaos

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Wayne McLoughlin

- Contents – Include a 1-tier vertical comic (Baldness facts) by Robert Mankoff

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("Wally was a crazy, wonderful bastard") by Brian Savage

- Mrs. Reagan's diary – 4 pages - John Hughes – Includes 1 cartoon by David Brown

- The Custom Budget Motel – 2 pages - John Bendel – Includes 1 cartoon ("Oh, no! My best friend and my best friend's wife!") by Peter C. Vey

- Diagnostic doctor – 1 page - Ed Subitzky – Includes 1 cartoon by Peter Steiner

- News on the March – 6 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 cartoon (Jobs in the U.S.) by Jack Tom?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

 

- Young Ron Comics – Tod Carroll & Ted Mann + Frank Springer

  Cover in color

  Fake ads: "Sell Gasohol" and "The Company Store" – 1 page - ?

  Young Ron Comics – 4 pages in color

 

- Tod Carroll's Cosmos – 5 pages - Tod Carroll

- Ad: Heavy Metal Magazine – 1 page – Includes 1 color illustration by Chris Achilleos

- Life stories – 1 page – Written & Illustrated by Mimi Pond

- Comic: The decline and fall of the Muppet empire – 5 pages in color - Gerald Sussman + Randall Enos

 

- Bulletproof park condominiums – John Bendel

- United Nations newsletter – 4 pages - Brian McCormick

- The last century – 2 pages - Sean Kelly

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how sometimes you really wondered at how dumb your dreams could be...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Today it's fig bars for my brother Leo...") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Moose model – ½ page – Bill Woodman

-  New wave comics ("Now that I'm rich and famous...") – 1 page – Mark Marek

-  Deirdre Callahan, a biography 2 ("Little Deirdre was thrown into a garbage can...") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Politenessman ("Two men leave a sleek black Sedan...") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Bar belles ("Murphy doesn't mind if I mess around") – ½ page - Jane Brucker

-  The miraculous image – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  No wonders – 1 page - Gerry Capelle

-  Timberland Tales ("It is the sixth long day of blizzard weather outside the cabin of Kathleen") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- The war decorum primer – 3 pages - John Bendel – Includes illustrations by Steve Brodner

- Gen.l Alexander Haig's 1981 Republican Party atlas of the known world – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke

- Economic survival – 4 pages - John Hughes – Includes illustrations by Steven Guarnaccia

- True Section – 2 pages - John Bendel

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke

 

 

Vol. 2, #34 (May 1981)

Naked ambition

 

- Cover – Color illustration by ?

- Contents – Includes 1 cartoon ("Harvest moon!") by Kerns

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("Blind and my dog has asthma") by Tom Cheney

- Helpful answers – 1 page - Ed Subitzky – Includes 1 cartoon ("Hey, mister, is this your wallet?") by Randall Borchers

- News on the March – 5 pages - ? – Includes 1 cartoon (Sun belt vs. U.S.S.R.) by ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Mrs. Reagan's diary – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("The Lone Ranger and Tonto in New York") by Robert Mankoff + 1 cartoon ("Birds of a feather flock together") by Mick Stevens

- The Bob Hope desert classic – 2 pages - Brian McCormick – Includes 1 cartoon ("I'm Major General Frank T. Smith...") by Hollinger

- Short story: A sporting wager at the Middle Manegement Club – 10 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 1 color illustration by Robert Crawford + 1 cartoon ("Thank you, Mr. Baxter...") by ? + 1 cartoon ("Aw shit!") by Sam Gross + 1 cartoon by Peter C. Vey + 1 cartoon ("Onan's Cave") by Sidney Harris + 1 cartoon by Eagan + 1 cartoon by Rankin

 

- Status Quo Comics - Gerald Sussman + Frank Springer

  Cover in color

  Fake ad: Limited edition of Gen-Tiles – 1 page - ?

  Invasion of the money snatchers – 4 pages in color

 

- Schlitz Malt Liquor ad: The unforgetta"Bull" 1981 calendar – 8 pages – Includes illustrations by ?

- Douglas Waterman caps a big year with CBS honchos and his mom – 4 pages – John Bendel – Includes photographs by Ronald G. Harris

- Short story: Just one of those days – 4 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 4 color illustrations by Arby Airz?

- Board game: Arriviste – 3 pages - P.J. O'Rourke with color illustrations by Lou Brooks

- The corporate glossary – 1 page - John Hughes

- How the West was won – 4 pages - Brian McCormick – Includes illustrations by L. Rubinyi? (The first map of California), ? (The Lewis and Martin Expedition), ? (The first wagon train to Hollywood), and G.P. (The great cattle calls)

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how, for quite a long time, the fact that all grown-ups were odd...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Kapra Kapers – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  Politenessman ("A little girl is walking home from school, when...") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Deirdre Callahan, a biography 3 ("Because she was so ugly...") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Well Douglas, how is that ah...") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  New wave comics ("It was a cold grey night when...") – 1 page – Mark Marek

-  The Appletons ("The airplane makes its way through the night sky...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Would you like to be a homosexual beekeeper? – 1 page - Ted Mann

- Fake ad: Chuck Barris is looking for a buttboy – 1 page - Ted Mann

- True Section – 2 pages - ?

- Comic: Olde English 800 ad (Amazing facts or fiction? – Watermelon stops train) – 1 page - ?

- Coming next month – ½ page – Includes 1 color illustration by Jeanette Adams

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - P.J. O'Rourke

 

 

Vol. 2, #35 (June 1981)

Romance

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Elaine Gignilliat

- Contents – 1 page – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (The story of Lois) by Roz Chast

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("Gentlemen and ladies...") by Sidney Harris

- The growing crisis – 2 pages - Brian McCormick – Includes 1 cartoon ("Please do not throw food on the floor") by Mort Gerberg

- Nancy Reagan's dairy – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("Lost and found") by Robert Mankoff

- News on the March – 5 pages - ? – Includes 1 cartoon (Married vs. single) by ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies: Naked trigonometry 1 – 1 page

- Hippie jokes for all occasions – 2 pages - Kevin Curran – Includes 1 cartoon by ? + 1 cartoon by Brian Savage

- Comic: Olde English 800 ad (Amazing facts or fiction? – Worst bird in history) – 1 page - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies: Naked trigonometry 2 – 1 page

- Short story: The last guy on Earth – 6 pages - Ted Mann – Includes color illustrations by Duncan Hannah + 1 cartoon ("Now, now, Puffy, stay calm") by Tom Cheney + 1 cartoon ("Meg, Meg, Meg, what's the point of...") by Brian Savage

- Photo-comic: Las dámas en trés G – 5 pages - Tod Carroll + Arlene Lappen (Direction) + Dan Nelken (Photographs) + Marguerite Lobaik (Production)

- Why I should be Yoko Ono's new boyfriend contest – 1 page - Kevin Curran

- A dictionary of the romance language – 2 pages - Sean Kelly, Ted Mann

- Short stoy: Wine not? – 9 pages - Chris Miller – Includes 1 color illustration by Dan Kirk + 1 cartoon ("At least it's a dry heat") by Rick Meyerowitz + 1 cartoon ("It probably tastes better than it looks") by Frank Cotham + 1 cartoon ("My wife's in the bedroom") by Peter C. Vey + 1 cartoon ("He said if we don't let him in...") by Sam Gross + 1 cartoon ("The rebels have broken into your spiritual leader's offices...") by ?

 

- Comic: Self-Love – P.J. O'Rourke + John Workman (Pencils) + Robert Smith (Inks)

  Cover in color

  Fake ad: Whining – 1 page - ?

  Little ol' me – 1 page in color

 

- Crush Magazine – 5 pages - Michael Civitello, Brian McCormick – Includes illustrations by ?

- The death of Tony Romaine – 2 pages - John Bendel – Includes 1 cartoon ("The Robin") by John Jonik

- Short story: The Pre-Romantic agony – 2 pages - Sean Kelly – Includes color illustrations by Phyllis Herfield

- Myths made modern – 3 pages - P.J. O'Rourke – Includes 1 cartoon ("Squiggy, the court jester") by M. Landig?

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how it slowly dawned on you that there were some things that you could tell your parents...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Deirdre Callahan, a biography 4 ("A bizarre story tonight about a child...") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Dr. McNouglas! Leo has escaped!") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Ward C ("When I was 18...") – ½ page – Tom Cheney

-  Life in the flight path – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  Politenessman ("Night falls quickly in the High Rockies") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  The Rabbit Boy 1 ("Dad McHenry makes a strange discovery in the woods") – 1 page – Len Glasser

-  Life at the Edge Apartments – 1 page – Holly K. Tuttle

-  Timberland Tales ("For a youth, there is no greater joy than...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Life stories – 1 page - Written & Illustrated by Mimi Pond

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- True Section – 3 pages - ?

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #36 (July 1981)

Endless, mindless Summer sex

 

- Cover - Dean Janoff, Richie Williamson/Aerographics, Styled by Mokus

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Remember the good old days?) by Holly K. Tuttle

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon by Tom Cheney

- Nancy Reagan's diary – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("Cartoonists strictly prohibited") by Gond + 1 cartoon ("Lord, spare me!") by Bernard Schoenbaum + 1 cartoon ("Do you get this joke, Harold?") by Peter Steiner

- The adventures of Susie Johnson – 4 pages - Kevin Curran – Includes 1 cartoon ("First you make a left...") by Robert Mankoff + 1 cartoon ("Do not leave without finishing your food") by Liza Donnelly

- News on the March – 5 pages - ? – Includes a 1-page comic (Satellite against satellite) by Brad Hamann + 1 cartoon (N.R.A. vs. N.Y. Jewish liberal democrat gunshot victims) by Jack Tom

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies: Diary of a beautiful nymphomaniac – 1 page

- How the English mate – 2 pages - Gerald Van Der Leun – Includes 1 cartoon ("If you're ever sick...") by Mike Twohy

- Short story: Tsummer of '42 – 7 pages - Ellis Weiner – Includes 1 color illustration by Chris Spollen + 1 cartoon ("Mein Gott!") by Sam Gross + 1 cartoon ("I don't mean to alarm you...") by Peter C. Vey + 1 cartoon by Bill Woodman + 1 cartoon ("All those in favor of getting even drunker...") by Peter C. Vey

- Photo-comic: Secretaries in paradise – 4 pages - John Hughes + ? (Photographs)

- Tit Section – 4 pages - Ed Subitzky, Nera K. Dale – Includes illustrations by Lou Brooks

- Illustration: Mechanical debutante ride – 1 page in color - P.J. O'Rourke + Larry D. McEntire

- Calypso! – 2 pages - Donald Charles

- Short story: Summer fun with O.C. and Stiggs – 9 pages - Ted Mann – Includes color illustrations by Susan Faiola

- Some other stuff we did (Included inside "Summer fun with O.C. and Stiggs") – Tod Carroll

- Some real stupid guys that O.C. and Stiggs know go to the beach – 4 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 4 color illustrations by Art Bonanno

- Viking at party beach – 5 pages - Brian McCormick, Kevin Curran – Includes 1 color illustration by Howard Nostrand + illustrations (Party prize giveaways) by Philip Scheuer

- Would you like something to read? – 2 pages - Sean Kelly, Ted Mann

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how sometimes you got a little glimmer of what grown-ups had to contend with...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  My life in orbit – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  Deirdre Callahan, a biography 5 ("Deirdre, who lives at the city dump...") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  The Rabbit Boy 2 ("Dear diary, despite my best efforts it is totally...") – 1 page – Len Glasser

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("This is Dr. McNouglas calling!") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("On a slum street in a major metropolis") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  New wave comics ("I used to love New York") – 1 page – Mark Marek

-  Bus funnies – 1 tier – Mimi Pond

-  A telephone interview with Uncle Jack – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  The Appletons ("Mrs. Appleton is about to leave for the night, as we hear...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Cartoons: Intercomedy – 2 pages - Peter C. Vey

- True Section – 3 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #37 (August 1981)

Let's get it up, America!

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Todd Schorr

- Editorial – 1 page - Ellis Weiner – Includes 2 color illustrations by Steven Guahnaccia

- Letters – 3 pages - Includes 1 cartoon ("Frankly, sir, for you I wouldn't recommend...") by David Brown + 1 cartoon ("So I says to your husband...") by ? + 1 cartoon ("Look! He just told those ladies...") by Nick Downes

- Bernie X's father talks about Summer sex – 5 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("What's this I hear about...") by Peter C. Vey + 1 cartoon ("I'm from the IRS") by Peter C. Vey + 1 cartoon ("I guess someone else with three wishes...") by Sidney Harris + 1 cartoon ("You're right!") by Brian Savage

- Dear Judge – 1 page - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 cartoon ("Dear Harry") by Peter C. Vey

- A star is porn – 5 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("Who is it?") by Brian Savage + 1 cartoon ("And you, Al, what's new with you?") by Peter C. Vey + 1 cartoon ("Excuse me, the producers would like...") by Brian Savage

- News on the March – 5 pages - ? – Includes a ½ page comic (Promise of passion) by ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Letter from the office of Commander S.W. Goatlips IV – 1 page - Ted Mann

- A game plan for America – 2 pages - Sean Kelly, John Weidman – Includes 1 color illustration by David Jarvis

- Grass-roots politics – 1 page - Ellis Weiner

- Economy – 3 pages - Tod Carroll

- Life-styles – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman

- Science – 2 pages - Brian McCormick, Kevin Curran

- Education – 2 pages - Michael Reiss & Al Jean

- Our hidden resources – 2 pages - John Hughes – Includes illustrations by ?

- Literature – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman

- Energy and environment – 2 pages - Ellis Weiner

- The arts – 1 page - Ellis Weiner

- Religion – 2 pages - John Hughes

- Animals renew themselves – 2 pages - Brian McCormick, Kevin Curran

- Food – 2 pages - John Bendel, Gerald Sussman

- Essay – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember when sometimes there just wasn't anything you could do about what was happening...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Deirdre Callahan, a biography 6 ("Deirdre is a child so incredibly ugly that...") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Excuse me! Would you mind if I had just one bite of your hamburger...") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("Politenessman is quick to sense the possibility of rudeness") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  New wave comics ("In this comic there will be no erasures...") – 1 page – Mark Marek

-  The Rabbit Boy 3 ("The task of civilizing Bert...") – 1 page – Len Glasser

-  A sixties memory – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  Hi, who am I? – 1 tier – Mark Knudsen

-  Ward C ("Say, here comes Carl") – ½ page – Tom Cheney

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #82 – Horny women – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Timberland Tales ("The diet of the North American Indian is...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Comic: Family fun on a budget – 2 pages in color - Ron Barrett

- True Section – 3 pages - ? – Includes illustrations (Underarms and underwear go to war) by ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Comic: Aunt Mary's kitchen - Slide show – 3 pages in color - B.K. Taylor

- Next month – Includes 1 cartoon (Back to school) by Charles Rodrigues

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #38 (September 1981)

Back to school

 

- Cover – Color illustration by Jeanette Adams

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic ("I came") by Roz Chast

- Editorial – 1 page – Tod Carroll – Includes 1 color illustration by Cynthia Watts Clark

- Nancy Reagan's diary – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 cartoon ("Hello, boys, I'm Mister Rogers!") by Revilo (Oliver Christianson) + 1 cartoon by Tom Cheney

- News on the March – 5 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Open page America – 3 pages - John Hughes

- Short story: Hungman makes his move – 8 pages - Ellis Weiner – Includes 1 color illustration by Ed Soyka + 1 cartoon by John Jonik + 1 cartoon ("All right, you stupid assholes, stop!") by Randall Borchers

- What's happening on Campus? – 4 pages - Brian McCormick, Kevin Curran, Richard Rosomoff, Michael Reiss & Al Jean – Includes illustrations by ?

- Back to college – 3 pages - Gerald Sussman – Includes color photographs by Ronald G. Harris

- Greek like me – 5 pages - Jefferson Springbok – Includes photographs by Dan Nelken

- Poster – 2 pages – Color illustration by Dan Kirk

- Short story: O.C. & Stiggs - Semester abroad – 5 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 3 color illustrations by Guy Augeri + 1 cartoon ("Everything is spotless...") by Brian Savage

- Princess Caroline's back-to-school herpes guide – 2 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes illustrations by Howard Nostrand + photographs by Dan Nelken, Julia Gorton

- Talking out loud – 2 pages - Sean Kelly, Ted Mann – Includes 1 illustration by Kimble Mead

- Comic: Dorm-day Saturday – 4 pages in color - Tod Carroll + Joe Orlando

- Secretarial school reunion – 5 pages - Ted Mann – Includes 3 color illustrations by Maira Berman

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Nuts ("Remember how all kids liked to build things up whenever possible...") – 1 page – Gahan Wilson

-  Deirdre Callahan, a biography 7 ("Oo-la-la") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("O.K. Today we're making Bearnaise Sauce") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("3 A.M. The strident ring of her telephone...") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  My transgression – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  The Forget Brothers – 1 tier - ?

-  Ward C ("Musical notes") – ½ page – Tom Cheney

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #2-D - Desert islands – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  New wave comics ("I started out at the bottom washing dishes") – 1 page – Mark Marek

-  The Rabbit Boy 4 ("Bert has been discovered by a benefactor...") – 1 page – Len Glasser

-  The Appletons ("It's a bright and sunny day in Greendale...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Send us a photo of your husband's butt contest – 2 pages - John Hughes

- True Section – 2 pages - ?

- Next month – Includes 1 cartoon (Hollywood) by ?

- Photorama Picture Parade – 1 page - ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #39 (October 1981)

Movies

 

- Cover – Photograph by Ronald G. Harris

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (Nose) by Holly K. Tuttle

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("Would I be proud to serve this to my own family?") by ?

- Excerpts from the 1927 edition of the Professional Wrestler's Encyclopedia of Party Hints – 2 pages - Brian McCormick, Kevin Curran, Richard Rosomoff – Includes 1 cartoon by Mike Twohy + 1 cartoon ("Okay, all those in favor of taking to the streets...") by Peter C. Vey

- The propmaster speaks – 2 pages - Kevin Curran – Includes 1 cartoon by Tom Cheney

- Short story: Sgt. Nick Daley, campus police – 2 pages - John Bendel – Includes 1 cartoon by John Caldwell

- News on the March – 5 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- Ronald Reagan's secret stag film – 5 pages - Gerald Sussman

- Short story: Mexican death – 5 pages - Ted Mann

- Hollywood factoids – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman

- Fake movie poster: Foreigners – 1 page - Gerald Sussman, Tod Carroll, with a color illustration by ?

- Journal of the making of an antinuclear feminist clayworks statement on mental retardation – 3 pages - Brian McCormick – Includes 1 cartoon ("I can't figure out what all the fuss was about at the Academy nominations ceremony") by John Costanza

- Fake movie poster: Bloodbath of the killer fawns – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman, with a color illustration by Dan Kirk

- The Hollywood Informer – 5 pages - Sean Kelly, Gerald Sussman, John Bendel – Includes illustrations by ?

 

- Comic: Double Date Comics – Ted Mann + Frank Springer

  Cover in color

  Fake ad: Alco-Haul Limousine Service – 1 page - ?

  Richard Burton & Richard Harris – 4 pages in color

 

- The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences: Foreign entries 1981 – 4 pages - Ellis Weiner – Includes photographs by Dan Nelken

- American home movie box – 4 pages - John Hughes

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Deirdre Callahan, a biography 8 ("Deirdre Callahan is a child so incredibly ugly that her image causes...") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  The Rabbit Boy 5 ("After a series of needless exploratory operations...") – 1 page – Len Glasser

-  Politenessman ("The final game of the world series...") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Well. So much for Hollandaise Sauce!") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Making it in Hollywood – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #B-7 – Tricks of the trade – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

-  Ward C ("Say, are you going to eat them peas") – ½ page – Tom Cheney

-  Conversations – 1 tier – Mimi Pond

-  A hot time at the Edge Apartments – 1 page – Holly K. Tuttle

-  New wave comics ("Maxine here: professional waitress") – 1 page – Mark Marek

-  Timberland Tales ("It's Halloween night and Maurice is making his way to Dr. Rogers's cabin...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- Lives of the agents: William Morris – 1 page - Ellis Weiner – Includes 1 illustration by James Grashow

- Fake movie poster: Terminal house – 1 page - Gerald Sussman, with 1 color illustration by Harold Perry

- The greatest movies ever told – 2 pages - John Bendel

- True Section – 3 pages - ?

- National Lampoon contest #1 – 1 page - Ted Mann, Sean Kelly – Includes 1 color illustration by ?

 

 

Vol. 2, #40 (November 1981)

TV: Cruel and unusual punishment?

 

- Cover – Photograph by Dennis Chalkin

- Contents – Includes a 1-tier vertical comic (New belief systems) by Roz Chast

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("Yoo-hoo, Marlo") by Hollinger

- Cutty Sark ad: It's never been done before – 1 page – Color illustration by Birney Lettick

- Donahue's armies – 3 pages - Michael Reiss – Includes 1 cartoon ("I am bling – God bless you – Thank you") by Bill Woodman

- The hot tub – 3 pages - Jefferson Springbok

- News on the March – 4 pages - ?

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

- P-SQ – 1 page - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 color illustration by Mary Sherman

- Short story: Hollywood private eye in Casting call for murder – 7 pages - Kevin Curran – Includes 1 color illustration by Dan Kirk + 1 cartoon by Sam Gross

- Fake ad: The new season begins with WEEE! – Jefferson Springbok

- The teeth of kings – 1 page - Gerald Sussman – Includes 1 photograph by Carl Waltzer

- The death of Ed McMahon – 4 pages - Michael Reiss – Includes 1 illustration by Julie Beinke

- Steve Allen Magazine – 8 pages - Tod Carroll, Gerald Sussman, Ted Mann – Includes 1 illustration ("A" is for asthma") by Howard Nostrand + a 1-tier comic (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) by Howard Nostrand

- Pilots! Television's orphans – 2 pages - Jefferson Springbok

- All the new video games – 2 pages – Written & Illustrated by Ron Barrett

- Testing the new technology: The Foodeo Systems – 2 pages - Ellis Weiner

- 30 years of television – 4 pages - John Bendel – Includes 4 color illustrations by Arthur Thompson

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Deirdre Callahan, a biography 9 ("CIA Agents Black...") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  The Rabbit Boy 6 ("After being tried and found guilty...") – 1 page – Len Glasser

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Wonderful – Now my brother Leo...") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("The time: Nighttime") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Famous comic artists school: Lesson #12757 - Night – 1 tier – Bruce Cochran

- That special someone – ½ page - Revilo (Oliver Christianson)

- Worm – 1 tier – Patane?

-  Ward C ("That one looks like a ladies auxiliary...") – ½ page – Tom Cheney

-  The fabulous Miracle House – ½ page – Rick Geary

-  New wave comics ("Good afternoon ladies and gents...") – 1 page – Mark Marek

-  Dressing for success – ¾ pages – Mimi Pond

-  Zeb Piker... the hairy little man – 1 tier – Hollinger

-  The Appletons ("Another sunny Saturday in Greendale finds Mr. Appleton and family...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- The television code – 7 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes 1 cartoon ("The Malaysian rubber snake sheds its skin seasonally") by John Caldwell + 1 cartoon ("The following uninterrupted dramatic program...") by Bernard Schoenbaum + 1 cartoon ("He should know") by Robert Mankoff

- True Section – 2 pages - ?

- National Lampoon Contest #2: How to kill Ruth Gordon – 1 page – Kevin Curran, Brian McCormick

 

 

Vol. 2, #41 (December 1981)

What's hip?

 

- Cover – Color photograph by John Barrett

- Cutty Sark ad: A lot of us have wild ideas – 1 page – Color illustration by Birney Lettick

- Letters – Includes 1 cartoon ("Hey!! Now maybe Peggy Sue will go out with me!") by Peter C. Vey

- How does it work? – 4 pages – Jefferson Springbok

- Memoirs of a cheap sensualist – 3 pages - Ellis Weiner

- On the road, revisited – 5 pages - Joey Green

- News on the March – 4 pages

- Photo-comic: Foto Funnies – 1 page

 

ESQUARE

- Cover – Color photograph by Ronald G. Harris

- Fake ad: Marmoset! – Gerald Sussman with 1 color illustration by Dan Kirk

- The second oldest profession comes of age – 3 pages - Jefferson Springbok

- What would Bo Derek look like if she were bald? – 1 page - Al Jean

- Irish – 4 pages - Sean Kelly – Includes color illustrations by Rick Meyerowitz

- Decisions withouth walls – 3 pages - Tod Carroll – Includes photographs by Ronald G. Harris

 

INTERLUUDE

- Cover – Richard Bernstein

- Fake ad: Melvin Klein Jeans – 1 page - Gerald Sussman with a color photograph by James Salzano

- Fake ad: Richard Von Gambino – 1 page - Gerald Sussman

- Interview with Fran Lebowitz – 2 pages - Ellis Weiner – Includes 1 photograph by Joe Torre

- Les morts de Cartier – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman – Photograph by Carl Waltzer – Construction by Jim Wilson – Drawing by Robert Altemus

- All about Yves – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman

- Fishing for Carrie – 2 pages - Sean Kelly

- Bob Coliformo's down and out in the city – 2 pages – Michael Reiss

 

MOIST

- Cover – Larry Williams

- Music for lovers – 2 pages - Jefferson Springbok

- Singer in the rain – 2 pages - Gerald Sussman

- Spilling things on people – 2 pages - Brian McCormick, Richard Rosomoff – Includes color photographs by Chris Callis

- The new literacy – 2 pages - Tod Carroll

 

Comics: Funny Pages

-  Deirdre Callahan, a biography 10 ("In the story last month, one foreign Intelligence team after another...") – 1 page – Charles Rodrigues

-  The Rabbit Boy 7 ("While serving six months in the county workouse...") – 1 page – Len Glasser

-  Aunt Mary's kitchen ("Here is your salad, sir") – ½ page – Mary Kay Brown

-  Politenessman ("An arsonist's match has set the fabulous Harem Del Vista Hotel ablaze!") – ½ page – Ron Barrett

-  Ward C ("This is how a crazy guy tells jokes") – ½ page – Tom Cheney

-  Popular problems – ½ page - Hauge

-  The grand tour – 1 page – Rick Geary

-  Timberland Tales ("The holiday season is in the air...") – 1 page – B.K. Taylor

 

- True Section – 2 pages - ?

- Coming next month – Includes 1 cartoon ("Honey, I hear the January Sword and Sorcery issue of National Lampoon...") by ?

- National Lampoon Contest #3 – 1 page – Ted Mann