Measures 8-13/32" X 10-29/32", 24 pp plus covers, b&w illustrations, issue #29 (September 1961), published by The Realist Association (NY).

Group 9-3435

Years before NATIONAL LAMPOON, a modest little "adult satire" underground magazine was born, the brainchild of PAUL KRASSNER, who had decided that MAD MAGAZINE was becoming far too tame, and that more mature adults needed a more controversial and biting satire publication.  Borrowing a few chops from MARK TWAIN, H. L. MENCKEN, JONATHAN SWIFT, AMBROSE BIERCE, WILL ROGERS, WALT KELLY and others, Krassner stirred up the contents, and created THE REALIST in 1958; and, current events being what they are, THE REALIST stuck around until 2001, a couple years after Krassner himself had died.  Apparently, no one had informed the magazine of his passing.

Here's the contents from an early issue:

The Bomb Shelter Key Club Plan

An Impolite Interview With DICK GREGORY -- with illustration by CALVIN BAILEY

But Dead Men Don't Revolt

A Word To The Psychic Is Unnecessary

Editorial Type Stuff --  The Cause And Cure Of THE REALIST

                               --  The Plug At The End Of The Page

Latin American Report -- by WILLIAM WORTHY

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by DICK GUINDON

We're Still Ahead In Many Subtle Ways -- by PETER EDLER

How To Walk On Water -- by GEORGE Von HILSHEIMER

Negative Thinking:  What I Didn't Learn At College -- by ROBERT ANTON WILSON

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by ANDY REISS

Communist Propaganda Of The Month

Epithalamium For Two Hermaphrodites -- by ED MURRAY

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by HOWARD SHOEMAKER

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by FRANK INTERLANDI

Vocational Rehabilitation Of The Month

Report From An Independent Research Laboratory -- by MARVIN KITMAN

The Most Hollow Cause Of All -- by PAULA FOZZY

Rumors Of The Month

BOB ABEL's Third Quarterly Report On Some Of The Crap In Orbit

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by McGLOIN

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by LUDWIG

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by BHOB

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by RENAUZ

Sex And The Cold War:  Three Views; or, Lucky Paul, He's In The Middle -- by EILLEN BRAND & PAUL KRASSNER & HOWARD SHOEMAKER


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