Complete National Lampoon collection


PDF magazine scans of every issue can be purchased from G.I.T. Corp on Amazon. I have it and it's fantastic !!

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Can't wait to see this doc as have been a Nat Lamp fan/fanatic since high school in the early 80s (who ARE these guys? they understand my humor and vice versa!!). I started collecting the PHYSICAL copies (for some coughing upwards of $30 each for the early 1970 issues and special editions) and just made the excruciating decision recently to de-clutter (cd's, vinyl, books etc and go digital) and sell the entire collection for a penny on the dollar (as things often go, these just aren't 'collectible' any more). Oh WELL. IMHO the magazine should have folded with at least some dignity in about 1988/89 as its masthead/ownership changed hands one too many times and it was criminally unfunny and embarrassing from that point, to include the 'nat lamp presents' cinema as well (van wilder? seriously? i've seen funnier live colonoscopy procedures). The Onion needs to man up and admit they're a shameless rip-off of Nat Lamp (which was far superior by any measure). Two good books to seek out for further in-depth Nat Lamp characterizations: 1) Fat Drunk & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House by the longtime Nat Lamp publisher Matty Simmons; 2) Mr Mike by Dennis Perrin re: the late great & truly warped Michael O'Donoghue (early NL writer & then wrote for the nascent SNL). Thanks for the tip for others, Gerryg2012 (already have them) but, boy, I miss my collection!

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Less than a year ago I gave away my collection, which included the original magazine I bought off the news stand. I believe it was March 1970. May 1970 was my first from my subscription, which I believe went until 1988. I also let go some Heavy Metal magazines and a few Mad editions from the 60s.

I agree that the magazine went downhill like a freight train coming in from space, but the funny stuff was really funny. It was also horribly sexist and racist on a regular basis, as we know well.

But that's the price you pay for Mrs. Agnew's Diary, Invisible Robkin in the Girls' Locker Room and the Aesop Brothers, eh?

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Hey, ivnik8, you sound just like me, except I still have my actual magazines in a box. I also have the DVD of all of them but it's not the same reading this humour on a computer screen. Scrolling and zooming, ugh. Glad I have it though. Same with MAD up until 2005. Every MAD from the beginning! Superduperman! Gasoline Valley! Etc!



"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley

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Hey gerry, can you comment on what the image quality of the photographs is like on this PDF collection? Some PDF collections have horrible reproductions when it comes to art and photos.



"Sie sagan diese katze Shaft ist eine schlechte Mutterficker!"

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The PDF reproductions are very good but I still have to zoom in to read most of the text. Not much we can do about it but it's worth it.





"'Extremely High Voltage.' Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer SimpZZZZ--" - Frank Grimes

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I think I saw the lampoon on the stands a dozen years ago. It didn't look like the same magazine. Have they ever tried to revive it?

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