The Bored of the Rings thread reminded me of Sol Weinstein’s wonderful (and feelthy!) Oy-Oy-Seven books; am I the only person who remembers these? I have a feeling that the writers of The Hebrew Hammer have a few copies lying around.
I still have my father’s copies of Loxfinger and Matzohball, but I will have to hunt down the other titles.
I have those and also You Only Live Until You Die, though not On the Secret Service of His Majesty, the Queen.
And it’s quite possible that Beard and Kenney were familiar with the books, which started coming out in 1965. They have exactly the same type of silly name play (his gun was a Simon-Garfunkel) and over the top cultural references (if less drug humor). And there were very few full book-length parodies of single titles before his.
He also later did a Godfather parody called, what else, The Oddfather, with Howard Albrecht.
I have to admit that I think he’s deservedly forgotten.