Measures 8-15/32" X 10-31/32", b&w illustrations, 52 pp including covers, Volume 2, Number 2 (whole number #8) (September 1961), published by Headline Publications Inc. (NY).
One of the more popular 1950s & 1960s copy-cat responses to the popularity of MAD MAGAZINE, SICK was edited by JOE SIMON (yes, MARVEL COMICS fans -- THAT JOE SIMON!), with BOB POWELL (yes, HARVEY COMICS fans -- THAT BOB POWELL!) as Art Director, JOE GENALO in charge of Production, DEE CARUSO & BILL LEVINE as Feature Editors & Writers, and BILL MAJESKI & BILL DIXON as Contributing Writers. This particular issue boasted as well with the addition the cover art and several features illustrated by LEO MOREY, plus the art of DON PERLIN, as well.
Contents:
Front Cover -- art by LEO MOREY
Inside Left Front Cover -- Fake Ad -- New Sonbeard Beardmaster
Inside Right Front Cover -- SICK Award To "What's My Plug" (Parody of "What's My Line?" TV Show), art by LEO MOREY
Table Of Contents
Sickcerely Yours (Letters Of Comment) -- JOHN F KENNEDY & JACQUELINE KENNEDY Cartoon)
The Sickniks -- Bottom Of Sickcerely Yours -- artist unknown
Educational TV Which Imparts Very Little Public Service -- Parodies of "ASK MR. WIZARD" and other semi-educational TV programs -- artist unknown
Banking Today - Parody of New 1960s Public Service Banks -- artist unknown
History Revisited - Alternate History Moments with JOHN DILLINGER, ELIOT NESS, THOMAS EDISON, CHARLES LINDBERGH, & GEORGE WASHINGTON -- artist unknown
Monologue For Sick Comics In Glass Cages -- short jokes -- artwork by LEO MOREY
Sickly Grin Ward -- 4 single panel cartoons -- artist unknown
Recruiting For The Modern Army -- artwork by LEO MOREY
Visitor's Day -- In Prison -- artwork by DON PERLIN
Sick Sick World -- Jokes
Sickiatry -- Comic Strip Along Bottom Of "Sick Sick World" -- artist unknown
Scandalsville Revisited -- Movie Review Of "RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE," with b&w photos of JEFF CHANDLER, TUESDAY WELD, MARY ASTOR, CAROL LYNLEY, ELEANOR PARKER, ROBERT STERLING, BRETT HALSEY, and LUCIANA PALUZZI
People In The News - The Cosmonut -- by DEE CARUSO & BILL MAJESKI
Sick Calendar for September 1961 -- art by LEO MOREY
Arresting Movies -- Differences Between Arrest Scenes In American Vs British Films -- artist unknown
Name The Names Contest - The Sun People, including JOHN F KENNEDY -- art by LEO MOREY
SICK Newsreel Around The World -- artist unknown
One-Page Photo Gag
The Sick Lark Show -- Parody Of "AMERICAN BANDSTAND" & DICK CLARK -- artist unknown
Housekeeper -- White House Housekeeper Interview, JOHN F KENNEDY cartoon -- artist unknown
Ad -- PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE record, with JOHN F KENNEDY cartoon -- possible LEO MOREY artwork
Two single-frame b&w gag photos below the PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE ad
Phone TV -- Parody Of Pay Television -- artist unknown
Inside Back Cover -- b&w gag photo from "THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN" with BORIS KARLOFF
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