NATIONAL LAMPOON Sept 1971--KIDS issue!

From 1971, the first several years of the Lampoon in its classic period, the influential and legendary NATIONAL LAMPOON's 18th issue, with a lovely cover by Kelly Freas, and featuring(descriptions courtesy Mark's Very Large National Lampoon site):

• Letter From the Editor, By Michael O'Donoghue
• A rather long-winded joke about a cattle drive which crosses paths with a Dixieland band
• Letters, Uncredited; Illustration by Marvin Mattleson
• Hot Flashes, Uncredited; Illustration by Marvin Mattleson
• Press photos accompanied by humorous captions
• Mrs. Agnew's Diary, Uncredited (Doug Kenney); Illustration by Marvin Mattleson
• Those "awful" Chinese; Dick sends Spiggy to campaign in obscure foreign countries; everyone attends a wedding and gets looped
• News of the Month, Uncredited (Henry Beard); Illustration by Marvin Mattleson
• Nixon announces his plans for the "So-So Society"; A chain letter enticing recipients to kill Vietnamese circulates in Vietnam; FTC to investigate religions for possible fraudulant claims; Telephone Company plans ad campaign to discourage phone use; Sharks place ban on eating people because of health risks; Solutions to Queen Elizabeth's financial woes; Arizona man arrested for his part in the My Lai massacre--voting for Lyndon Johnson
• A Child's Garden of Worse, Cartoons by Arnold Roth
• My Weekly Reader: The Children's Tabloid, By George W. S. Trow and Anne Beatts
• Parody of My Weekly Reader featuring sensationalistic stories about children
• Children's Letters to the Gestapo, By Michael O'Donoghue
• Kids say the darndest things to Heinrich Himmler, offering to turn in their parents, making "cute" racists remarks, etc.
• Eloise at the Hotel Dixee, By Michael O'Donoghue
• Parody of the Eloise childrens' books in which Eloise lives in a seedy hotel populated by prostitutes and drunks
• Creative Playthings, By Gerald Sussman
• Socially relevant toys for the seventies such as Martin Luther King Logs, Ralph Nader Chemistry Set, Norman Podhoretz Hand Puppets, Psychic Wholeness Costumes, etc.
• How to Cook Your Daughter, By Tony Hendra
• Written in the style of an epicurian essay. [It is what the title suggests, but with a happy ending, thank goodness--MS]
• How to Cook Your Father, Cartoon by Katherine Hendra
• Tony's daughter gets even
• Filial Politics, By Sean Kelly and Anne Beatts
• "A Kids' Lib Manifesto" written in a strident political style with awful spelling
• Spicy Tales, By Commander Barkfeather
• Lewd jokes in rebus form
• Model Plane Kit, By Doug Kenney; Illustration by Gray Morrow
• The "B-90 Super Dodo," a $779-million super-secret bomber under development by the Department of Defense, which looks suspiciously like a paper airplane, that you can build yourself
• Chums in the Dark, By Hugo Flesch (and Henry Beard); Illustrations by Dick Hess
• A side-splitting parody of the Hardy Boys juvenile book series in which the two young slueths are hopelessly clueless when it comes to matters of sex and drugs, and are literally left holding the bag.
• Games Children Play, By John Weidman and Gahan Wilson
• Rather frightening "signs of the times" games supposedly played by contemporary kids such as "Red Light, Red Light," "Hide and Shreik," "King of Hamburger Hill," etc.
• The Toilet Papers, By Chris Miller; Illustration by Stephen Negrycz
• Portrait of the artist as a toddler going through toilet training--his "brown period"
• Death Is, By John Weidman; Drawings by Herb Trimpe
• Parody of Charles Schulz's "Happiness Is...A Warm Puppy" Peanuts books focusing on various ways real children manage to do themselves and each other in [NatLamp got sued over this one--MS]
• Foto Funnies, Uncredited (features Doug Kenney)
• Topic: Someone reading NatLamp and not getting the Foto Funnies piece
• National Lampoon Reading Comprehension Test, By Sean Kelly
• Find out how well you read this issue of the National Lampoon

Every single piece a classic. Influential, hilarious, and a collection of dark comedic minds that indelibly changed American humor. And you're never likely to see an assemblage of writers and artists in such a beautifully designed magazine again. (Not to mention the hilariously dated ads, almost worth the price by themselves)

This issue has slight interior wear, and very slight spine rolling, but otherwise excellent, well-kept and bagged, and I'd say it's in VG condition, veering toward F. My Lampoon collection is one of my dearest possessions, and has been well-tended to. I just don't have the room to properly keep them anymore, however.

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