Measures 8-15/32" X 10-27/32", 24 pp including covers -- issue #44 (October 1963) -- published by The Realist Association (NY).
Group 15-4901
There is a 1/16" tear at the front lower left edge, connected with a 3/8" fold, plus a missing 1/8" chunk -- 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 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 #44, much of which concerned the controversial 1963 "obscenity" trial of publisher RALPH GINZBURG and his adult art publication EROS MAGAZINE, for which Ginzburg was found guilty and sentenced to 5 years in Federal prison (he actually only served 8 months, before being released) :
The Trial Of EROS MAGAZINE
Report From Farnsworth, N. J. -- Part Two
Press Treatment Of A Riot -- by J. H. WEINBERG
A Lesson In Contemporary History
Editorial Announcements
Co-Existing -- by SAUL HELLER --
The Cuba Travel Menace
Coming Decline Of Anti-Communism
Promises Are For Breaking
Confessions Of A Confessions Editor -- by JEANNE FAILL
Radio Free America -- by JEAN SHEPHERD
Confession Of A Blond, Blue-Eyed Nordic (poem) -- by TOM PEASE
Synopsis Of A Proposed Screenplay: "Red Giant On Our Doorstep" -- by TERRY SOUTHERN
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