Humbug (1957) 5
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Issue #5
Published Dec 1957 by Humbug Publications.Cover by Al Jaffee. Stories and art by Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder, Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth, R. O. Blechman, Howie Schneider, Paul Rosner, Larry Siegel and Russ Heath. Another attempt by Harvey Kurtzman to duplicate the success of Mad magazine, Humbug was actually published by the artists who created it. How to carve a Thanksgiving turkey so it's nothing but drumsticks. Reporter (and future 60 Minutes anchor) Mike Wallace gets the Humbug Award. Satirical looks at fraternal orders, tobacco ads, and pro basketball. Contributions from many past and future MAD Idiots, including Bill Elder, Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth. Pain? Headache? No Furniture? Bofforin; Mike Sticker's Pandemonium Quiz; How to Bring Up Your Child Without Really Lying; Lodges Fraternal Orders and Other Secret Societies; Send John Kasper to the Moon; The Day Murray Schneiderman Was Shot; The Humbug Award: Mike Wallace; Tall Men in Basketball; Evolution in Publishing; Thanksgiving Dinner; 40 Years Have Brought Amazing Progress in Gasoline Improvement; Like How to Carve Turkey; Voting Machine; Asiatic Flufrightus; Nifty Songs; Announcing an Entirely New Kind of Tobacco. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.
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