Measures 8-1/2" X 10-27/32", 32 pp including covers -- b&w illustrations -- issue #41 (June 1963) -- published by The Realist Association (NY).

Group 15-4901

There is a 1-3/8"  tear at the rear mid-top edge, plus 1/4" vertical tear along the upper spine edge, plus a 1-1/8" tear at the front left top edge -- otherwise average condition for an "underground" publication of over 60 years, with wear & chipping to edges & corners, plus creases, scratches, indentations, folds, lesser tears, browning pages, rub-wear, soiling, foxing, etc -- overall condition Good Minus


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 issue #41:

The Arrest Of LENNY BRUCE

Malice In Maryland -- by MADALYN E. MURRAY

Some Of My Best Friends Are Artlovers

The Food & Drug Administration Vs Scientology -- 

     by THOMAS F. PINCH, Director Of Administration, The Founding Church Of Scientology

     by K. L. MILSTEAD, Deputy Director, Food & Drug Administration Bureau Of Enforcement


How To Lure Customers

Epizootics -- by G. Legman

Do We Own Ourselves? -- by MIRIAM ALLEN deFORD

Modest Proposals -- by JOHN FRANCIS PUTNAM

Single panel cartoon -- illustrated by DICK GUINDON

The Story Of A Cartoon

Truth, Untruth And The Moral Chain-Effect -- by JAMES COUNCIL

History Got Lost In The Translation

On The Other Hand. . . -- by DAVE BERKMAN

Whitehall Mon Amour

The Black Caucasian (Continued)

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by MORT GERBERG & illegible

Sorry, Right Number

Everyman's Uncle Sam -- illustrated by DICK GUINDON

Query (poem) -- by AVERY CORMAN

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrator's name illegible

Rumor Of The Month

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by RULES

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrator unattributed

Portrait Of The Editor As A Young Slob

Negative Thinking -- by ROBERT ANTON WILSON

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrator unattributed

Single Panel Cartoon -- by BRUCE COCHRAN

People:  Progress Report #2: -- by GEORGE Von HILSHEIMER

     --  Hunger Hurts 

     -- Books South

     -- Cooperative Apartments

     -- Hawaii

     -- Volunteers

     -- Rescue The Perishing

     -- The Tensions Of Democracy

   
Quoted Without Comment

Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrator's name illegible

The Case For Ant-Social Behavior

Crap Parade Of 1962 -- by BOB ABEL, illustrated by DICK GUINDON

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