I can’t even seem to find a NatLamp website any more. This site by a fan is on hiatus, and only ever posted each issue’s cover and table-of-contents anyway.
My guess is you won’t find it posted legally anywhere online.
I’d reccommend picking up a copy of the archive.
They seem to be fairly well protected. You might find an article here or there. I wish I’d kept my old magazines.
Got all my old issues stored in the basement, starting with the famous If you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill this dog issue. 
I might have to buy those archives. I’d love to see all the old issues too. I had a subscription in college. In fact, my user name is derived from one of their little throw away articles.
The archive disc was very poorly done, especially the older issues. Also, you can’t print out any portion of it without a very visible and distracting watermark.
Like the last dozen movies, it’s a cheap and unworthy ripoff of the original brand.
Why not? Who owns the copyright?
There is still a National Lampoon website, but it’s damn hard to find: www.nationallampoon.com
I’ve seen that before – figured it had gone dark when I couldn’t find it by googling. It used to have some archived old articles from the 'zine, but they are not there now and have not been there in years.
National Lampoon, Inc.
Seriously. They’re a publicly traded company. They don’t really produce anything anymore. They basically just hold the copyrights to the old material that appeared in the magazine and license the National Lampoon name.
This thread made me go looking for a National Lampoon story I read in high school, “My Vagina.” And darned if I didn’t find it.
Yes, I know you can find some of them, here and there, if you know the titles or authors.
What I’d really like to find is a collection of the “Letters from the Editors” column.
Jeez, it should have all reverted to the Harvard Lampoon! I bet they wouldn’t sit on the articles! 
Is that a whoosh? National Lampoon had no legal connection with the Harvard Lampoon.
The price on that DVD-ROM seems to be creeping slowly upwards, so you might grab it while you can regardless of the watermarks. It was $18 a couple of years ago on Amazon, whereas now it’s up over $40. I bought a new, sealed copy on ebay for $25 a few months ago.
Amazon added the “[Old version]” suffix to their listing fairly recently. Does anyone know the story behind that? When I first saw it I hoped it implied a cleaner unwatermarked version would be offered soon, but I’ve been unable to find any supporting evidence. It seems that the “old version” is still the only version.
As flawed as the DVD archive is, though, it’s still well worth the investment. It’s just a disc full of non-DRM’ed pdf files, so even though the scans are sometimes ratty and coffee-stained, it’ll still outlive that cardboard box I have somewhere in the basement. And the watermarks aren’t nearly as obnoxious as some of the online reviews would lead one to believe.
And your post prompted me to look for Vacation '58, the story that John Hughes turned into the screenplay for the Chevy Chase film.
I know, I know. It’s more in the nature of whooshful thinking.
There’s no legal connection, but there is a historical connection.
I found All the issues for fairly cheap. its like $10
They are right here:
revjo, thank you for the link. I just ordered it. I already had the collection of magazines, but it was worth the $9.95 just for the radio shows.
I had a box of old Lampoons in the basement for years. About ten years ago I tossed them, thinking “I never read these anymore, they’re just taking up space.” That was a really stupid thing to do. Every now and then I’ll think of an old cartoon or article and wish I could go back and look it up.