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Issue: National Lampoon Magazine #32 Age Restricted
Publication Date: March 1981
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Issues: #32 of 223 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: Flag21st Century / Heavy Metal / National Lampoon
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: NL Communications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 1981
Volume: 2
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (15 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s): Tod Carroll; John Hughes; Ted Mann; John Bendel; Brian McCormick
Disclose Notes: Funny Pages on pages 65-72 on newsprint, which has the gutters and margins of all the comics a dull olive color. (The strips themselves are normal black and white inside the panels.)
A Bic Lighter full-page ad on page 38, titled "The Movie Buff's Guide to Flicking Your Bic." has three cartoons by Joseph Farris, Mischa Richter, and Bernard Schoenbaum.
A full page painted ad for Joker cigarette papers on page 54 ("The 'Finest' Papers in the Kingdom") is done in same style as Maxfield Parrish painted ads from the early 20th century.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white and color interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy; newsprint; other paper stock (varies in each issue)
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was-ongoing
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The Bare Minimum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: A loaf of bread,E
Synopsis: A modern take on the old saying "A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou."
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Pages: 0.3
Disclose Notes: Page 4. Four panels on the right side of the table of contents, running vertically.
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Motorized Axe

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man is using a motorized axe (instead of a chainsaw) to chop down a tree.
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Page 16. Pantomime cartoon.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Peter Steiner [as P. Steiner] (signed)
Penciller(s): Peter Steiner [as P. Steiner] (signed)
Inker(s): Peter Steiner [as P. Steiner] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Your rose dust gets into everything, and your caladiums attract toads; and another thing; your damn marigolds are stinking up the whole area.
Synopsis: Three leprechauns living in a flower bed list their grievances with the lady doing the gardening.
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The Annual Run Like a Girl Marathon

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Oliver Christianson [as Revilo] (signed)
Penciller(s): Oliver Christianson [as Revilo] (signed)
Inker(s): Oliver Christianson [as Revilo] (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Runners in a marathon have to run in an awkward manner, in the stereotypical "run like a girl" way.
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[untitled]

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Foto Funnies
First Line: I'm the best three card monte dealer in the world!
Synopsis: A three card monte dealer is not very successful at his scam.
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The Return of the Paramedic-Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Matt Golden (signed)
Penciller(s): Matt Golden (signed)
Inker(s): Matt Golden (signed)
Colorist(s): Matt Golden (signed)
Letterer(s): Matt Golden (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Roger; Stan
First Line: A curvaceous young housewife is sitting up watching T.V. after putting her daughter to bed.
Synopsis: An unscrupulous team of paramedics coerce a housewife into having sex with them, after a previous visit to the house to help the woman's daughter.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Nuts
First Line: Remember how, even if you tried as hard as you could, some people were impossible to understand?
Synopsis: The boy's friend Harold has never heard of the superhero Captain Heroic and sees no point in made-up stories.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Deirdre Callahan - a Biography
Character(s): Deidre Callahan; Mrs. Callahan (Diedre's mother); Blind Bob
First Line: Her story begins in the maternity section of a metropolitan hospital.
Synopsis: Deidre Callahan is so ugly that her mother dumps her in a garbage can when she is six years old. She is taken to the city dump with the rest of the trash, where she meets scavenger Blind Bob.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Politenessman
Character(s): Politenessman
First Line: At the Iron Curtain...
Synopsis: A man trying to escape from an Iron Curtain country in attacked by vicious dogs. Politenessman tries to scold the border guards, but is unsuccessful.
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Around the House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, romantic
First Line: Here's a trick I've discovered for keeping my marriage exciting.
Synopsis: A young wife engages her husband in some playful wrestling and pillow fights to spice up her marriage.
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Bob & Margaret

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Bob; Margaret
First Line: Bob! Margaret!
Synopsis: Bob and Margaret meet up after a long absence. Margaret takes the initiative for the couple to have sex, then comes up with a maddening list of chores to postpone it.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Aunt Mary's Kitchen
Character(s): Leo; Dr. Douglas; Nurse Laura
First Line: Doctor, look! He still hallucinating!
Synopsis: Leo is still in the hospital having hallucinations. Meanwhile, his doctor is trying to seduce a nurse.
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Kit and Caboodle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Kit; Caboodle (dog)
First Line: Here's Kit.
Synopsis: An introduction to a completely average boy and his dog.
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Thanks, Negroes, for All These Things!

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Chuck Berry (cameo); Stevie Wonder (cameo); Big Daddy Lipscomb (cameo)
First Line: Jazz • Bop • R & B
Synopsis: A listing of things gained from black culture (both real and satirical); followed by a short list of things white people have given blacks; and at the end stereotypical views of other cultures.
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Disclose Notes: Page 70. The whole page is done in an extreme way, both in language and art style.
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Bar Belles

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jane Brucker (signed)
Penciller(s): Jane Brucker (signed)
Inker(s): Jane Brucker (signed)
Letterer(s): Jane Brucker (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Promise not to tell?
Synopsis: Two women are at a bar. One tells the other a deep dark secret.
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The Do Walk

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A business man does a funny walk as he leaves his apartment. When he gets to the sidewalk, all the other men going to work are doing the same funny walk.
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Disclose Notes: Page 71. Pantomime story.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): B. K. Taylor (signed)
Penciller(s): B. K. Taylor (signed)
Inker(s): B. K. Taylor (signed)
Letterer(s): B. K. Taylor (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Feature(s): The Appletons
Character(s): Norm Appleton; Bobby Appleton; Kathy Appleton
First Line: A Saturday morning finds Mr. Appleton in an upstairs bedroom.
Synopsis: Mr. Appleton is reliving his military days. He gives his son a loaded rifle, which goes off, bringing the police to take Bobby away.
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Good Sense... Good Times.

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
First Line: You must be a virgo.
Synopsis: A swinging party is going on in one room, while in the room where the coats are piled, a man is appallingly drunk.
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Disclose Notes: Page 75. Apparently a public service announcement against alcohol abuse, though not sponsored by any organization. A note at the bottom says "For a 16" x 22" poster, send $2.00 to Promotion Dept. 3-81, National Lampoon, 635 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022."
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[untitled]

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Foto Funnies
First Line: Go ahead. Put it in your mouth.
Synopsis: A lot of double-entendres leading to a reveal of a woman trying to eat oysters.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: For a dervish, you're not much of a whirler.
Synopsis: A whirling dervish gets dizzy and throws up.
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Disclose Notes: Page 95. Part of the "Coming Next Month" promo.

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