The Realist # 47 - February 1964 - J EAN and 50 similar items

Measures 8-21/32" X 10-3/4", 24 pp plus covers -- b w illustrations photographs -- issue #47 (February 1964), published by The Realist Association (NY). Group 11-2165 Average "well-read" condition for an "underground" publication of nearly 60 years, with wear chipping to edges corners, plus creases, scratches, indentations, folds, tears, browning pages, rub-wear, soiling, 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 an early issue: Single panel cartoon -- by DICK GUINDON Confessions Of A Guilty Bystander -- by PAUL KRASSNER Signs Along The Cynic Route Hope (poem) -- by AVERY CORMAN Editorial Giggies: Belated Credit. . .And Blame Quoted Without Comment Space On My Hands (Continued) The Mother Poster The Stone-Caster Consistency Of Principle THE REALIST Bail Fund Ah Sordid Announcements ARTUKOVIC, Mass Murderer: A Yugoslavian EICHMANN Illegally Secure In The United States For Fifteen Years My First Murder And A Little Child Shall Lead Them. . . Modest Proposals -- by JOHN FRANCIS PUTNAM Crafty People -- by SIDNEY BERNARD Single panel cartoon -- artist unattributed It Tolls For Thee Radio Free America -- by JEAN SHEPHERD Co-Existing -- by SAUL HELLER (Early doubts about the guilt of LEE HARVEY OSWALD in the assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY) Multi-panel sequence cartoon -- by LOU MYERS THE REALIST Seal Of Approval For Outstanding, Though Unintentional, Contributions To Satire In 1963 -- by BOB ABEL Healthy Exposure -- by TERRY SOUTHERN If This Be Heresy. . . : Is Pornography Harmful To Children? -- by ALBERT ELLIS, Ph. D. J. C. (multi-panel sequence cartoon) -- written by KEN SEAGLE, illustrated by BHOB STEWART The Tale Of An Emancipated Female Summations Of A Self-Appointed Messiah -- by GEORGE Von HILSHEIMER Hard Core Pornography Of The Month Pregnancy Insurance Temporary Insanity -- by NORVIN PALLAS Shipping charges include postage (including USPS Tracking on domestic shipments), packaging materials, labor fuel (the nearest post office is 14 MILES away!); but I do combine shipping charges on multiple items -- so fill up that cart NOW an' save some $$$!