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Issue: Bijou Funnies #8
Publication Date: January 1973
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Issues: #8 of 7 Issues (10 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Adults Only
Publisher: FlagKitchen Sink Press
Brand: Kitchen Sink EnterprisesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Krupp Comic Works
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 15 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: As indicated by the cover, this entire comic mimics Mad to a degree, using the format and running jokes of the early issues within strips drawn by underground cartoonists parodying each others' characters.

The indicia notes this is published in conjunction with the Bijou Publishing Empire, Inc. The price increased over the years. There were at least two printings at 75c, with the second print subsequently re-stickered at $1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Covers, Black and white Interiors (#2-7); Full Color (8)
Dimensions: 6.62" x 8.87" (16.81 cm x 22.52 cm) - (#2-7); Standard Modern Age US (7.12" x 10.18" (18.08 cm x 25.85 cm)- (#8)
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Tales Calculated to Sell You...

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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In Content Item: FlagThe Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD-Inspired Satirical Comics #[nn] published April 2012
as Tales Calculated to Sell You... [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Um Tut Smuth?

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: An editorial saying no more issues of Bijou will appear if a Supreme Court ruling permitting local communities to define standards of obscenity is not repealed. The ruling has impacted on several comic creators since 1973.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The editorial is signed 'The Editors of Bijou Funnies'
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Geek Brothers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Chicken Fat Freddy; Itinerant Irving; Phunnyass; Oat Willie; Landlady; Wonder Warthog; Chicken Fat Freddy's Pet; Oko Yunu; Linda Yeastman
Synopsis: Some of the Geek Brothers move onwards and upwards.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2.9
Disclose Notes: This parodies Gilbert Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
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Chicken Fat Freddy's Pet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Chicken Fat Freddy's Pet; Snoopy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.1
Disclose Notes: This parodies a Peanuts strip, and occupies the bottom tenth of the second page of the Geek Brothers story.
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Snazzy Melvin Snoot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Snazzy Melvin Snoot; Geezer; Ragweed Willy; Dick Tracy
Synopsis: Melvin is mugged and his life goes downhill from there.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: This parodies Skip Williamson's Snappy Sammy Smoot.
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Melvin Natural

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Funky Feet; Melvin Natural; Daddy Natural
Synopsis: When is Funky Feet going to wise up and stop being dumped on by Melvin Natural?
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In Content Item: FlagThe Scum Also Rises: An Anthology of Comic Art #[nn] published November 1988
as Melvin Natural! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: This parodies R. Crumb's Mr Natural.
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Hungry Irving Biscuits

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Hungry Irving; Eddie Seltzerbugs; Elaine
Synopsis: Hungry Irving is sick of his image and demands a makeover.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Kitchen is satirizing Daniel Clyne's Hungry Chuck Biscuits
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Melvin Wizard!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Melvin Wizard; Lizard; Pogo
Synopsis: What's really under the wizard's hat?
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: This parodies Vaughn Bodé's Cheech Wizard.
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Pard 'N' Nat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Pard 'N' Nat
Character(s): Pard; Nat
Synopsis: Pard and Nat fall out.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #9 [unnamed variant] published October 1992
as Pard 'N' Nat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: This parodies Jay Lynch's Nard 'n' Pat
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Inside Dopes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dim Kitsch; Geldo; Uncle Ted; Melvin; Clown; Hooligan Hare; Yolanda Nussman
Synopsis: The improbability of Kim Deitch's plots is satirised.
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Pages: 3
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Bufo Boffo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Toady; Hi-Jacker; Hans Keesler; Pinheads
Synopsis: Toady is kidnapped and forced to create art.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: This parodies Bill Griffith's Mr The Toad and Zippy.
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Checkered Cherub

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Checkered Cherub; Mick Jagger
Synopsis: The Checkered Cherub searches out those who deserve a good, swift death.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: This parodies S. Clay Wilson's Checkered Demon.
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A Case Of Outlined Lettering

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Wiper
Character(s): The Wiper; Grunt; Melvin
Synopsis: The Viper would be more effective if only he could control his cleaning compulsion.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: This parodies Art Spiegelman's Ace Hole, Midget Detective.
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Mashman Meets Spleen Queen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Mashman; Spleen Queen
Synopsis: It's almost a date for Mashman and Spleen Queen.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: This parodies Spain's Trashman and a Trina Robbins character. One page is in color, one page in black on yellow.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A parody of the famous EC ad naming the assorted Mad imitations, using numerous titles of other underground comics in the text, and incorporating nine logos.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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