#200295 - Humorama January 1958 Bill Ward

Humorama, January
Humorama, Inc.
New York, New York
1958

digital replica

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Humorama magazine brand sold a host of titles, including Snappy, Breezy, Jest, Gaze, Stare, Comedy and Joker. Limiting pictures to good-girl cheesecake permitted the sale of the line at candy stores and newsstands.

A full-sized magazine, Humorama focuses on risqué gags and pinup pulchritude in cartoons and a few photographs. L. Magila, Lyons, Frank, Basil Wolverton, Bill Wenzel, Evan D, Diamond, Jefferson Machamer, Larry Harris, Charles Webb, Howdy, Follette, Al Kaufman, Bob Barnes, Glynn, Golj, Hauck, Rayon, Ton Smits, Harry King, Monroe Leung, Zima, Andrews, Lloyd Baker, Al Sargent, Homer, C. Stanley, Bill Harrison, and Oakes were among the many comic illustrators who added lively female curves to these pulp pages.

The most enduring contributor was the great Bill Ward. Nine (plus the cover) of his Conté crayon delineations of voluptuous female forms brighten this issue.

Single comic panels illuminate saucy quips and dumb puns that observe office work, doctors, newlyweds, driving, bad habits, contemporary culture, financial matters, and the vagaries of dating. Complete anecdotes, jokes and poems also appear on a few of the 60 pages.

The digital replica includes all the content of the magazine. Pages sequence was revised to obtain continuity of one prose piece. All content is shown full-size in the ebook.

The tonality of pictures was adjusted to improve clarity and many specks re-touched. Some of the photographs have grainy regions.

All new scans.

The cover promises playful entertainment. The ebook iteration makes it easy to enjoy.

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