#300301 - Wink 11 33 1972 Humorama

Wink, Volume 11, Number 33
A Humorama Magazine
Humorama, Inc.
New York, New York
August 1972

digital replica

Throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the Humorama magazine brand appeared on a host of pocket-size, monochrome magazines, printed on pulp paper. Titles included Joker, Breezy, Jest, Gaze, Stare, Comedy and Gee-Whiz. Limiting pictures to good-girl cheesecake permitted the sale of the line at candy stores and sidewalk newsstands.

Publishers exploited court rulings that expanded the acceptable range of imagery in adult periodicals. In this late Humorama piece, we see nipples in photographs.

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 Humorama pages.

Atkins, Al Cramer, Morley Burteen, Doug Bennett Forney Mumford, Lutner, L Harper, Hamilton, Bill Wenzel, Homer, Al Kaufman, Nick Sett and Kesner contribute comic art. The most enduring illustrator whose work appeared in Humorama magazines was the great Bill Ward, and 11 of his Conté crayon delineations of voluptuous female forms brighten this issue of Wink.

Single comic panels and pinup photos illuminate saucy quips and dumb puns. Jokes poke at eager men, men with money, marriage, kissing, dating, and office shenanigans. Complete jokes also entertain.

Models include Rosemary Bristol, Linn Cole, Colette Monet, Barbara Hollis, Diane Curtis, Teri Martine, and Tina McGowan. Pretty posers appear in lingerie, heels, panties, hosiery, and less. Many of the sexy models are actually philosophers who observe contemporary culture, financial matters, and the vagaries of courtship.

The digital replica includes all the content of the magazine in the original page sequence. The tonality of pictures was adjusted to improve brightness and contrast. Some page layouts have been revised.

All new scans. 100 pages.

The publisher statement on the title page says -
WINK — WHIZBANGERS ENTERTAINMENT . . . . Member: United States Chamber of Comics.

The cover promises cartoon fun and comedy and gee-whiz girls. In words and pictures, sometimes sexist or risque, Wink acknowledges the overwhelming power of feminine appeal for regular guys. Joke-zines present cheerful women as smart and even prudent, often aware of their own allure and how it affects men. The ebook iteration renders this flirty frivolity accessible and convenient 40 years after publication.

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