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Genres: adult, humorous

First Line: Wait! Stop! Don't look! This is not a nice magazine!

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Pages: 1

Art Art Art

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Otto Comic Strip no. 3

Character(s): Jol; Bader Zug; Valery; Duck Odd

First Line: Thank heaven you're here at last!

Synopsis: Jol prevents a leak disrupting a gallery show in this sendup of the high art world.

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Pages: 1

Otto Comic Strip no. 4: The New Undead

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Otto Comic Strip

Character(s): Zedo the Zombie; Zedo's girlfriend

First Line: Hi! My name is Zedo.

Synopsis: Zedo's daily routine- a very normal person who doesn't mind the rat race.

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Pages: 1

Weirdo number 17

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

Notes: A Bagge-drawn letterhead and spot illustration accompanies letters from Jim Woodring, Skutch Bundy; Leslie Remer (Poughkeepsie, NY); Percy Lustre (Grand Rapids, MI); Buster Calhoun (Fair Oaks, CA); Vernon L. Wiley (Chicago); Rodney Schroeter (Random Lake, WI); Jym Mooney (Milwaukee); D.C. Roberts (Long Beach, CA); Andrew Webster (NYC); M. Morris (Portland, OR); Lynn Von Schlichting; Alfred Bergdoll (NYC); Edwin Bergdoll (Dutton, VA).

Also includes a reader-submitted illustration from Paul Ullrich (Winnipeg) and eight small cartoons from Bill Harmer (reprinted from "100 Rejected Cartoons.")

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Pages: 0.85

Notes: Bagge promotes the following zines: "Private Hell" (Lynn Von Schlichting); "Scratchez" (Bob Lewis + Kathe Pritz); "All Small" and "Combo" (David Stienlicht); "Wurst Funnies" (Brad Johnson); "Spaz" (Vernon L. Wiley); "The Blotter" (Roy Tompkins); "Screaming Disaster"; "Demo"; "Blab" (Monte Beauchamp); "The Realist" (Paul Krassner); "W.D.C. Period" (Gordon Gordon); "Blatch" (Jim Blanchard); "Next Big Thing" (Lindsay Hutton); "Kicks" (Billy Miller + Miriam Linna); "Rumble" (Liam Killen)

The section includes a Brady Bunch-themed illustration by Von Schlichting as well as small sample illustrations from Xno, David Stienlicht, Brad Johnson, V.L. Wiley. Finally, there's a small cartoon by Bill Harmer titled "Damn Banana Peels" from "100 Rejected Cartoons."

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Creation of Steven's Unconcious

First Line: Who are you?

Synopsis: Steven meets a creation of his subconcious.

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Reprint Notes: from Steven (self-published zine ?)

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Pages: 0.29

Visiting with Ramona

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Character(s): Ramona

First Line: Nadine, my new room-mate, will go to bed with any guy who gives her lots of coke

Synopsis: Ramona spills the dirt about her friends

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Pages: 0.22

Brothers

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Count your blessings and subtract your misfortunes.

Synopsis: A guy with a miniature brother on his back

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Pages: 0.26

All in a Day's Work

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Godzilla

Synopsis: Godzilla's day waking from slumber and burning a city.

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Pages: 0.19

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Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Tootles

Character(s): Tootles; Bank Teller

First Line: Hi! I'm Tootles! Today I'm going to rob a bank!

Synopsis: Tootles attempts to rob a bank.

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Pages: 0.19

Isle of Lust

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Ginger Grant; Gilligan; The Skipper; The Professor; Lovey Howell; Thurston Howell III; Mary Ann Summers

First Line: The bee-you-ti-ful Ginger Grant tells all!

Synopsis: Ginger from Gilligan's Island spills the dirt about her fellow castaways in these outtakes from her bestselling book Isle of Lust.

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The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick

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Genres: biography

Character(s): Philip K. Dick; Tess; Christopher; Thomas M. Disch [Tom Disch]; John the Baptist

First Line: Philip K. Dick was a writer of science fiction.

Synopsis: Crumb illustrates Dick's testimony of some strange experiences. Dick struggles to make sense of a vision that made him see the world from the point of view of Apostolic Christians from ancient Rome. Eventually, a transformation occurs. What was once merely a vision begins to take over his mind.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Dick's dialogue taken from "Philip K. Dick: The Last Testament" (Fragments West / The Valentine Press)

Glorious Outer Space

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Feature(s): Pig

Character(s): Pig; Fuzzy; Squinky; Worm; Horsefeathers; Joan Jones

First Line: I can't stand it anymore

Synopsis: Pig remembers taking a ride in a flying saucer.

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Pages: 1

A New (Not Old) Adventure!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Bill & Phil

Character(s): Bill; Old Crazy Person; Batty Old Broad; Phil; Bob

First Line: Hi, my name is Bob...

Synopsis: Bill and Phil take action against old folk including Bob.

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Pages: 2

Vegetable Kingdom

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Big Jim; Willy the Cook; Sal-Manila; Judy the Ex-Psychologist; Marvin; Barbara Sprout

First Line: I moved into a residence hotel

Synopsis: A rundown of a residence hotel's bizarre inhabitants.

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Pages: 2

Monster Shirts by Mouse

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Pages: 4

Notes: Approximately fifty-two T-shirt design illustrations of various sizes reprinted from the artist's catalogs (1963-66). Includes a brief Bagge intro.

Mouse Meets Fred

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Character(s): Fred; Mouse

First Line: This is Fred trying to elude the busting policia (fuzz)!

Synopsis: How Mouse started designing hot rods.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Original two page strip reduced to one laid out in the landscape format.

The Checkered Demon In Hell!, part I

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Lamenting Sinner

First Line: One day, down below, the checkered one bopped along, over embers and sinners.

Synopsis: The Checkered Demon checks out an oddity in hell

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Reprint Notes: in Northwest Extra! #14 ?

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Pages: 1

Drunk Driving

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Farmer Brown

Character(s): Farmer Brown; Sheriff; Mad-Dog Crowley

First Line: Wahoooo!!

Synopsis: Farmer Brown has a succession of car accidents.

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Pages: 2

Stooge Women

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Helen; Mabel; Gertrude; Elaine

First Line: What kind of guy was he?

Synopsis: The wives of assorted Three Stooges speak out

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DiDi Has an Orgasm

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Hymie; Didi's Mom [Irma]; Glenda; Nathan; Boss; Alfie; Doctor; Bartender; Loretta; Crystal; Mom; Estelle Hochman; Selma Brown; Noreen Reilly; Rochelle Gold; Mr. E

First Line: Ooooh!!

Synopsis: DiDi is tired of her usual unsatisfying sex life.

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Pages: 12

How the Utterly Insane Lunatic Gets His Favorite Food

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): The Utterly Insane Lunatic

Character(s): The Utterly Insane Lunatic

First Line: Hey! What're you doing?!!

Synopsis: The lunatic winds up in the hospital on purpose.

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Pages: 0.25

The Utterly Insane Lunatic as "The Psychiatrist"

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): The Utterly Insane Lunatic

Character(s): The Utterly Insane Lunatic; Geoff E. Hough

First Line: Anyway, Doc, aside from the armed robberies I told you about.....

Synopsis: Geoff sees the Utterly Insane Lunatic.

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Pages: 0.25

Introducing the Paid Distractor

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): The Utterly Insane Lunatic

Character(s): The Utterly Insane Lunatic; The Paid Distractor

First Line: How many fingers?

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Pages: 0.5

Welcome to East Texas

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: autobiography, biography

Feature(s): Tales from East Texas

Character(s): Michael's brother-in-law; Mark Lumpkin

First Line: In the Summer of 1969, we watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.

Synopsis: Dougan discovers a soulmate while in Biology class.

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Pages: 1

Notes: back cover