Created by Henry Beard (1945) Appearing under the gag pen name of Germaine Spillane, it's obvious that "My Gun is Cute" was intended of a parody of Mike Hammer. Only problem? With Spillane it's hard to tell who's zooming who, since more than a few people think Mike Hammer was already a parody. But here … Continue reading Meg Hammer
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Ralph Nader
"Created" by Henry Beard "It didn't matter whether you ended up sitting in a bathtub with too many holes in your body to repair, or whether you did something stupid and they came back and took you away... it was all the same. Everyone goes back, sooner or later, back in the big recall." RALPH … Continue reading Ralph Nader
My Scrapbook: The Winking Brown Eye
My Scrapbook The National Lampoon ReviewsJohn D. MacDonald's "New" Travis McGee Book In the July 1981 issue of the National Lampoon (the special “Endless, Mindless Summer Sex” issue), they ran “Would You Like Something to Read?,” a spoof of a regular book column,by Sean Kelly and Ted Mann. Yes, it's cheeky, politically incorrect and embarrassingly juvenile. You should probably … Continue reading My Scrapbook: The Winking Brown Eye