This Magazine is Crazy (1957) 3

Stories and art by Herman Slott and others. Charlton's Mad imitator continues its hit-or-miss parodies of 1950s pop culture. In a parody of both Peyton Place and Reader's Digest Condensed Books, a lurid bestseller is condensed to a single paragraph. A parody of 1950s military inquests. Spoofs of 1950s advertising, including TVs, whiskey, and cigarettes. The cover is a parody of Esquire magazine. Barlmoro; Burnoff; Gorging in/Out with Crazy; The Shouting and the Flurry; The Military's Case Against Itself : A Muffled Report; The Old Flame; Calypso USA; The Mad Cherry Bomber; When in Doubt, Pungo; The Fetish Girl; Eating in the Village; The New Wild Sound of Gerry Muldoon: Artist; I Dreamed I Went Dancing in My Boyform Shorts; Bribe Section; Book Condensation; Fishing, Etc.; The Slimdome Hat; Nagnavox; Pack Your Own, Bud!; Urbane, Yet Skin-Fitting: Thataway's Mau Mau Oxford '58; Kutty Shark Scotch Whiskey. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.