Measures 8-7/16" X 10-29/32", 16 pp including covers -- b&w illustrations -- issue #38 (October 1962) -- published by The Realist Association (NY).
Group 15-4901
Average condition for an "underground" publication of over 60 years, with wear & chipping to edges & corners, plus creases, scratches, indentations, folds, 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 an early issue:
Psychotherapy And Atomic Warfare -- by ALBERT ELLIS, Ph. D.
Editorial Type Stuff -- In Praise Of Tabloidsville
-- Hamminess, Inc.
Thru A Fallout Shelter Darkly -- by TERRY CARR
An Impolite Interview With DANNY DAVIS
Single panel cartoon -- illustrator name illegible
May This House Be Safe From Pansies -- by ALEXANDER KING
"The Pill"
Single Panel Cartoon -- illustrator unattributed
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