Measures 8-15/32" X 10-7/8", 32 pp including covers -- b&w illustrations -- issue #43 (September 1963) -- published by The Realist Association (NY).
Group 15-4901
There are wider holes at the staples than originally -- otherwise typical 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
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 #43:
An Impolite Interview With MORT SAHL
Single panel cartoon -- illustrated by DICK GUINDON & PAUL KRASSNER
Editorial Giggles --
A Non-Obituary For The Living
The Ordeal Of Summerlane Camp
Sic Transit Ad Nauseum
How Yellow Was My Journalism
Underworld Test Questions
Fantasy Of The Month
Graffito Of The Month
It Was An easy Fight, Ma
Cuba And Catholicism: Two Taboos
Pennies From Heaven
Sidelights Of A Quiet Revolution
Rumor Of The Month
Guilt By Telepathy
The Harassment Of LENNY BRUCE
Rehabilitation Vs. Addiction
Of Morality And Monopoly
My Sun, My Son
Hard-Core Pornography Of The Month
Advertisements We Somehow Doubt The Sincerity Of. . .
THE REALIST Philosophy
Ode To The Tishman Building (poem) -- by AVERY CORMAN
Ah Sordid Announcements
Eros And Unreason In England -- by BOB ABEL
Fear Is A Four-Letter Word
All The News That's Fit To Omit
Report From Farnsworth, N. J.
Single panel cartoon -- illustrated by DICK GUINDON
Another Day, Another Ghetto
TERRY SOUTHERN Interviews A F****t Male Nurse
Single panel cartoon -- illustrated by DON ADDIS
Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by DICK GUINDON
Atomic Age Nutrition -- by MARSHALL E. DEUTSCH
The Risk Of Democracy (Continued)
Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrated by MORT GERBERG & PAUL KRASSNER
A Self-Appointed Messiah: Progress Report #5: -- by GEORGE Von HILSHEIMER
A Letter To A Gynecologist -- by Mrs. ELLIOTT HIRSCH
A Letter To PATRICK KENNEDY
The Case Of TV GUIDE
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