#306 - Comedy 1960 Humorama

Comedy, Volume 8, Number 56
A Humorama Magazine
Timely Features, Inc.
New York, New York
1960

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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.

The digest-sized zines focused on risqué gags and pinup pulchritude in photographs and cartoons. Henry Boltihoff, Bill Kreese, Homer, Jefferson Mechamer, Bill Wenzel, Dan De Carlo and Charles Jackson were among the many comic illustrators who added lively female curves to the pulp pages. The most enduring contributor was the great Bill Ward, and 9 of his Conté crayon delineations of voluptuous female forms brighten this issue of Comedy.

Single comic panels and pinup photos illuminate saucy quips and dumb puns. Many of the sexy models are actually philosophers who observe contemporary culture, financial matters, and the vagaries of dating. Complete jokes and poems also appear on a few of the 100 pages.

The digital replica includes all the content of the magazine in the original page sequence. The tonality of pictures was adjusted to improve contrast. All content is shown full-size in the ebook. All original scans.

The cover promises lusty, gusty, lively entertainment. The ebook iteration makes it easy to enjoy.

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