# Trying to identify '60s humor magazine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-60s-humor-magazine/319825 "2005-09-03T00:07:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-60s-humor-magazine/319825/1 "2005-09-03T00:07:13Z")
I’ve been trying for years to track down a specific issue of a Mad-style comic magazine from the mid-to-late '60s. It wasn’t Mad or Cracked. It may well have been Sick, but I think I’ve seen the covers of all the issues from the era and none rang a bell. Here’s what I remember: a full page (probably back cover) saying something like “This magazine is for right-wingers and leftists” (probably not in those words) with a cartoon of two essentially identical figures representing the two sides, the leftist one carrying a copy of “Das Kapital.” A racy, Mickey Spillane-type hard-boiled detective comic strip (this was the last article in the magazine) with a little lady standing outside the panels whitewashing out all the four-letter words. A series of cartoons based on southern foods (spoonbread: a loaf with spoons sticking out; hush puppies: dogs with their mouths tied shut; hominy grits: a guy pointing to his plate apparently counting “how many,” black-eyed peas with boxing gloves). A story about the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Real ads for books called “How to Be a Polack,” “How to Be Italian,” “How to Be Jewish.” Does any of this ring a bell with anybody? ---
**Author:** ![cstamets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@cstamets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cstamets)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-60s-humor-magazine/319825/2 "2005-09-03T02:55:42Z")
Well, I waas thinking of [Crazy](http://www.flicklives.com/Magazines/Crazy/crazy_cvr.jpg) , but that was the '70s, not the '60s. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-60s-humor-magazine/319825/3 "2005-09-03T03:40:18Z")
> [@cstamets](#): > > Well, I waas thinking of [Crazy](http://www.flicklives.com/Magazines/Crazy/crazy_cvr.jpg) , but that was the '70s, not the '60s. Right, and the mag I’m thinking of was definitely no later than 1969, and almost certainly earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-60s-humor-magazine/319825/4 "2005-09-06T13:31:00Z")
_bump_ So have I stumped the Dopers? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-60s-humor-magazine/319825/5 "2005-09-06T13:35:44Z")
While I don’t recall the issue yiou speak of, there were other humor mags pre-1970. **Sick** was a Mad imitator that tried to get what Mad and Cracked left behind. There was also a short-lived magazine started by the Playboy bunch that siphoned off a lot of the best of Mad from its early days, including Harvey Kurtzman. I can’t recall the name. Mad had to be rebuilt, and most of their best-known names came in at that time. Marvel comics had “Not Brand Ecch!” and “Spoof” before they came out with the magazine-sized “Crazy” . NBE was definitely pre-1970, and Spoof was on the cusp, there. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-60s-humor-magazine/319825/6 "2005-09-06T13:53:59Z")
Sick: [http://cgi.ebay.com/December-1966-Sick-Magazine-49-Bob-Taylor\_W0QQitemZ6975408434QQcategoryZ280QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem](http://cgi.ebay.com/December-1966-Sick-Magazine-49-Bob-Taylor_W0QQitemZ6975408434QQcategoryZ280QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) [http://cgi.ebay.com/SICK-Magazine-September-1962-Like-Mad-Humor-J895\_W0QQitemZ6558798241QQcategoryZ3969QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem](http://cgi.ebay.com/SICK-Magazine-September-1962-Like-Mad-Humor-J895_W0QQitemZ6558798241QQcategoryZ3969QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) [http://cgi.ebay.com/Sick-Magazine-Volume-1-number-2-dated-October-1960\_W0QQitemZ6558837756QQcategoryZ3752QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem](http://cgi.ebay.com/Sick-Magazine-Volume-1-number-2-dated-October-1960_W0QQitemZ6558837756QQcategoryZ3752QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) Harvey Kurtzman and **Trump** magazine: [http://www.lambiek.net/kurtzman.htm](http://www.lambiek.net/kurtzman.htm) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump\_(magazine)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_(magazine)) **Not Brand Ecch** : [http://www.samcci.comics.org/notbrandechh/nbe11.htm](http://www.samcci.comics.org/notbrandechh/nbe11.htm) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-60s-humor-magazine/319825/7 "2005-09-06T13:55:31Z")
Spoof: [http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=78877833126&snumber=1](http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=78877833126&snumber=1) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-60s-humor-magazine/319825/8 "2005-09-07T14:08:31Z")
Bump! because I’m curious to see if [Bsick\*\* is the answer, as I expect. (“Sick” is very often the answer, with me.) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-60s-humor-magazine/319825/9 "2005-09-07T17:32:31Z")
**Sick** is still pretty much the only possibility I’ve been able to come up with. I’ve bought several issues (including an annual) via eBay, and not found any clues (like a mention of the articles I remember in the letters column, or those real ads). BTW, the magazine I’m looking for did have a letters column, so it wasn’t a one-off. Oh, and I saw a reference to this in an early issue of Mad, with references to their imitators: what humor magazine had a drunken cat for a mascot?