Saturday, May 27, 2017
Groupie-Doo in "Paging Mik Jugger"
A very funny, and very sexy, 6 page Archies styled Rolling Stones parody (plus faux cover) by Stan Goldberg himself for the March 1975 debut issue of Apple Pie Magazine Vol. 1 #1. You will seriously never look at Betty and Veronica the same again after this one, guaranteed! And check out my other blog HERE for another, though very different, crazy ass (literally) story from this insanely inspired 70's National Lampoon mag wannabe. I'll have a couple more stories from this issue in our next post too!
This reminds me of the Cherry Comics but without the nudity.
ReplyDeleteCherry Poptart was still a few years away, but yeah, maybe this helped form a seed in the mind of Larry Welz
ReplyDeleteThis was certainly within Goldberg's time at Archie. It would be interesting to see how he either got away with this or if he did it under the radar.
ReplyDeleteA big part of the joke seems to be pushing the subject matter ever-so-slightly over the line, keeping the actual art and dialogue almost G-rated. It's maybe one rewrite away from a real Archie comics story (more subtly sex-obsessed in their own way).
ReplyDeleteIt's like National Lampoon at it's best, doing absolutely deadpan ad and magazine parodies.
Especially in the later years, National Lampoon would make visual and verbal explicitness a central joke. Sometimes it worked, but too often there was no effort to put a joke behind it.
Frankly, I thought this was pretty explicit, both story- and dialog-wise, but had very tame (and excellent) art. I might have liked to see slightly more explicit art, actually. That would have been the catnip at the time, I think: watching ARCHIE girls getting naked. Oddly for the project, this came off feeling a bit careful and slightly prudish.
ReplyDeleteStill in all, I thought it was pretty damn funny. Now I need to break out the CHERRY POPTARTs again myself.
Just realized my second comment here disappeared :/ boogger issues lately, and weird "safety" log in requests... anyway, glad you liked this one. Anyone interested in more highlights from this Apple Pie issue?
ReplyDeleteYou may be interested to know that Apple Pie was originally Harpoon magazine. Under the original title, three issues were published until National Lampoon's legal department forced Harpoon to change its name to Apple Pie. There is an editorial about it in the very issue you are blogging about here. When the National Lampoon imitation didn't work out, Apple Pie changed their format in December 1975 and became a People magazine parody (still under the title Apple Pie) and also became a monthly, lasting until April of 1976. So, Harpoon/Apple Pie was published from September 1974 to April 1976. There is a lot of confusion about the exact dates online.
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