If the recent post over at THOIA HERE wasn't creepy crawly enough for you, then it's time for a more epically underground style bug confrontation here at AEET! Yep, it's an abruptly silly superhero spoof via the October 1976 issue of Rock-Bottom Comics #23, aka the October 1976 Special Funny Pages issue of National Lampoon. Now imagine what YOU could do with this sort of any-bug-you-choose power! Golden Age hero comics are always such an easy target...
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Noooooo! A clothes moth! Anything but that!
This must be the most hilarious superzero since Matter Eater Lad.
Was the one bare boob an edit?
This is a really good spoof, probably from people that read a lot of golden age comics.
The stilted dialog, the weird sometimes hard to follow paneling, the stiff characters, the abrupt ending, it's a real treat and somebody that knew the style well.
I do love that it still follows a relatively decent narrative -- we get the early gag "has to kiss trash" and then the gag comes together as a real plot point when he has to kiss the black widow. I mean, that works better than a lot of horror stories we've seen with "it turns out" un-announced endings!
I love the hench bugs. That's a fun gag.
> Was the one bare boob an edit?
Nope… National Lampoon was always full of bare boobs, cartoon and real.
This was a racier tale than the types shown in Marvel Comics 'Not Brand Echh'
Verman, or is it Ver-man? I wonder if this tale was swiped from an underground comic or was inspired by same.
Aw, the best of the best. I had this issue as a child and maybe still have it tucked away somewhere. I remember it from way back in any case. I think this very comic opened my head to the post-Comix new wave in a way. I still think of it when I see early Charles Burns work.
The first four panels at the top of the third page (second story page after the "cover") is just thrilling work as well as astute parody. All the best satire operates as both commentary on and example of the object being satirized. This is a great freak of fiction right here, and I'd love to see many more installments of this story that were never produced. I'd also like to dig up the Enos and Wilson contributions to this very ish of Lampoon. I remember them fondly, too.
Speaking of contributors, who the heck drew this Rock Bottom Comics story, anyway? I suspected Ralph Reese; but then again, I also figured I'd be able to confirm by looking online, too. And that sure didn't pan out.
I’ll flip through it when I get back and see if I can find any credit info—hang tough!
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