Popular Post N e r V Posted April 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2020 Been chipping away at National Lampoon. This one will be an upgrade and contains art by Neal Adams, Berni Wrightson, Michael Kaluta, Ralph Reese, Walt Simonson, Howard Chaykin, Trina Robbins, Mike Ploog, S. Clay Wilson, Ted Richards, Dave Sheridan, George Evans, and Bobby London. Randall Dowling, The Lions Den, bounty_coder and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Despite having great contents the cover is clearly a strong selling point too... It’ll have you grinning “cheek to cheek”... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 12 minutes ago, N e r V said: Been chipping away at National Lampoon. This one will be an upgrade and contains art by Neal Adams, Berni Wrightson, Michael Kaluta, Ralph Reese, Walt Simonson, Howard Chaykin, Trina Robbins, Mike Ploog, S. Clay Wilson, Ted Richards, Dave Sheridan, George Evans, and Bobby London. That is just a mind blowing book; in addition to all the great artists you mentioned it's an utterly brilliant parody of comic history... that actually shows a far better grasp of the actual history of comics than most of the actual histories of comics available in 1975 did. This is a spectacular example of why I'm trying to put together a run of the first 5 years of NatLamp... For all that it is frequently offensive by modern standards, and even by the standards of the time, it was mindbogglingly well done and incredibly intelligent when it wasn't going out of its way to be incredibly stupid. This book is a particularly strong example of how amazingly good they could be when they wanted to. The Lions Den 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 18 minutes ago, OtherEric said: That is just a mind blowing book; in addition to all the great artists you mentioned it's an utterly brilliant parody of comic history... that actually shows a far better grasp of the actual history of comics than most of the actual histories of comics available in 1975 did. This is a spectacular example of why I'm trying to put together a run of the first 5 years of NatLamp... For all that it is frequently offensive by modern standards, and even by the standards of the time, it was mindbogglingly well done and incredibly intelligent when it wasn't going out of its way to be incredibly stupid. This book is a particularly strong example of how amazingly good they could be when they wanted to. In the 1970’s when both Mad and Lampoon were relevant series you grew up reading Mad but moved on to Lampoon as you got older. I never saw them exactly as direct competitors as they probably saw themselves but rather publications that served readers in different periods of their lives. Mad for the pre or early teens and Lampoon for the high schoolers to college readers. When the original SNL debuted in 1975 it was like a lot of that humor from Mad and Lampoon had magically come to life. Definitely products of their era... bounty_coder, The Lions Den and Randall Dowling 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Original Owner... Was also fortune to pick up a Jason Goes to Hell movie magazine for free OtherEric, Brandon Shepherd, This is Who We Are and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 4 minutes ago, N e r V said: In the 1970’s when both Mad and Lampoon were relevant series you grew up reading Mad but moved on to Lampoon as you got older. I never saw them exactly as direct competitors as they probably saw themselves but rather publications that served readers in different periods of their lives. Mad for the pre or early teens and Lampoon for the high schoolers to college readers. When the original SNL debuted in 1975 it was like a lot of that humor from Mad and Lampoon had magically come to life. Definitely products of their era... The Lampoon's parody of MAD was brutal... and very much spot-on. It's not surprising that SNL had a lot of the Lampoon feel, SNL was what a lot of the Lampoon crew did right after they left the magazine. The Lions Den and Randall Dowling 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevemmg Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) Most of the cast of SNL came directly from The National Lampoon Radio Hour that was on the air in 1973-4. It was pretty much over when the cast moved over. If you haven’t seen the documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, do yourself a favor and check it out. Cast pic from NLRH Edited April 13, 2020 by Stevemmg The Lions Den, Randall Dowling and oakman29 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post punksdropdirtysrh Posted April 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2020 Upgraded one of my favs in Bounty’s thread last year, got it back from CGC today. SAKI, This is Who We Are, Brandon Shepherd and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 2 hours ago, punksdropdirtysrh said: Upgraded one of my favs in Bounty’s thread last year, got it back from CGC today. Bounty has the goods for sure. The Lions Den 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, N e r V said: Been chipping away at National Lampoon. This one will be an upgrade and contains art by Neal Adams, Berni Wrightson, Michael Kaluta, Ralph Reese, Walt Simonson, Howard Chaykin, Trina Robbins, Mike Ploog, S. Clay Wilson, Ted Richards, Dave Sheridan, George Evans, and Bobby London. I don’t see these ever being graded. Does anyone know if CGC grades them or are they to large? Edited April 13, 2020 by N e r V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 2 hours ago, N e r V said: if CGC grades them They sure will. All this chatter got me to bag a few raws. Here are the highlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post This is Who We Are Posted April 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) Hi All, Was stoked to find this copy of Crime Machine in the mail today. I've seen some really nice copies floating around the boards here, but found this on thE bay. Just the smallest tear on the spine (sorry, I don't have a steady hand) but the condition of the cover really caught my eye! Always so nice when the seller kindly ships a magazine or comic like it was going into battle--heavily armored Edited April 13, 2020 by This is Who We Are Randall Dowling, Stevemmg, oakman29 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 hour ago, ThothAmon said: They sure will. All this chatter got me to bag a few raws. Here are the highlights. The reason I asked is the page count is about 50% or more than the average lampoon issue so it’s thicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevemmg Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 I think you’re right where these specials are concerned, too thick to be encapsulated in the mag slabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bounty_coder Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, punksdropdirtysrh said: Upgraded one of my favs in Bounty’s thread last year, got it back from CGC today. I'm glad to see that they agreed with my grade Of course I would have preferred if they thought it was nicer than my original assessment Congrats on the grade Mason. That's one of the nicer copies around. Glad this came through for ya! Also not bad given the other CGC 8.0 copy still on tha Bay for $500 Edited April 14, 2020 by bounty_coder punksdropdirtysrh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post N e r V Posted April 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 14, 2020 Well I added another Lampoon. This one has Stories and art by Michael O'Donoghue, Terry Southern, Edward Gorey, P. J. O'Rourke, Sean Kelly, Anne Beatts, B. Kliban, Russ Heath, Alan Kupperberg, Tony Hendra, Frank Springer (as Francis Hollidge), Rick Meyerowitz, M. K. Brown, Jeff Jones, Vaughn Bode, Bobby London, Michael Gross, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney. Cover by Berni Wrightson. Back cover by Frank Frazetta. It also contains this controversial page... Me, I like this one... Randall Dowling, oakman29, The Lions Den and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 I love the Ted Kennedy smack down.🤣 Randall Dowling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Dowling Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 2 minutes ago, oakman29 said: I love the Ted Kennedy smack down.🤣 It's definitely thin ice, though, considering that poor girl drowned. But that was the Lampoon, edgy as can be and equally satirical across all boundaries. It was a time when people had more of a sense of humor than today. In those days, I think people took their work seriously, not themselves. oakman29 and The Lions Den 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 17 minutes ago, Randall Dowling said: It's definitely thin ice, though, considering that poor girl drowned. But that was the Lampoon, edgy as can be and equally satirical across all boundaries. It was a time when people had more of a sense of humor than today. In those days, I think people took their work seriously, not themselves. The Lions Den 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordysnordy Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 On 3/28/2020 at 8:45 AM, Key Largo Comics said: Some recent grabs SSOC 12 has always been one of my favourite covers - such an amazing piece of art. ArkhamCastle, Key Largo Comics and Randall Dowling 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
