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Contents
Letter From the Editor, By Doug Kenney
A little parable about a bearded "hippie" dude who got busted by the Establishment--but not the one you're probably thinking of
Letters, Uncredited; Illustration by Marvin Mattleson
Horrorscope, Uncredited (Doug Kenney); Illustration by Marvin Mattleson
Celebrities' futures revealed using fortune cookies
News of the Month, Uncredited (Henry Beard); Illustration by Marvin Mattleson
Proposal to use the SST for public transportation in order to get government funding; Several rumors; The creed of the United States Marine; Some new ethnic organizations seeking recognition, including a group composed of 4 million Germans who claim to have plotted together to assassinate Hitler; Hope for phones having trouble achieving dial tone
Mrs. Agnew's Diary, Uncredited (Doug Kenney); Illustration by Marvin Mattleson
Judy gives us a daft peek at Hank Kissinger's creepy subterrainean command center
The Judaic-Judaic Tradition, Cartoons by Arnold Roth
"A look at the old-time religion as seen through rosen-colored glasses"
Foto Funnies, Uncredited (features Doug Kenney); Illustration by Marvin Mattleson
A woman who reads the Whole Earth Catalog shows guy (played by Kenney) she knows how to use it
Utopia Four Comics, By Sean Kelly; Art by Joe Orlando, Lettering by John Costanza
Marshall McLuhan, Kate Millet, Charles Reich, and Buckminster Fuller, as a team of super heroes, utterly fail to quell a ghetto riot
Lamentations II, By Tony Hendra
Supposedly a lost book of the Bible, recently unearthed, which casts the rest of the Bible in rather dubious light
Meanwhile, Back at Metropolis, By Michael O'Donoghue; Illustrated by Wayne Boring
A one-page Superman gag
New Sacrileges, By Bob Aaronson; Illustrated by Marvin Mattleson, Medoff, and others uncredited
An illustrated list of topical ideas bound to offend nearly everyone
NatLamp's Inferno, By Rick Meyerowitz
An illustrated panorama (accompanied by verse) depicting the just desserts awaiting the famous and the infamous in Hell
The Polaroid Print of Dorian Gray, By Michael O'Donoghue; Illustration by Roy Carruthers
A retelling of the Oscar Wilde classic, set in the present, in which the portrait manifests the moral consequences of Dorian's environmental abuse
Big Blessings Bulletin, By Henry Beard and George W. S. Trow
Christ's newsletter for His followers with news about fundraising efforts, recent miracles, an advice column by Mary, and ads for books of parables, rummage sales, and even a summer camp for kids, directed by Simon Peter
The Prophet, By John Weidman
An irreverent parody of the Kalhil Jibran book in which the prophet is a sham artist
Know Your ESP IQ, By John Boni; Illustration by Babi Jery
A parody of an intelligence test with questions such as "How did you score on this test?"
Foto Funnies, Uncredited
Strange bodily sounds gag
Holyland, By Gahan Willson
An incredibly crass amusement park based on the Bible
Magic Made E-Z, By John Weidman
A magic book showing how to do "miraculous" tricks such as "All You Can Eat," "The Bewitched Bush," "An Astonishing Stroll," and "Haunted Handwriting"
Tree Story, By Steve Kaplan and Peter Ivers; Illustration by Ed Soyka
Short story about a young man who tries to "get back to nature" and unwittingly ingests some hallucinigens
I Dreamed I Was There in Overdose Heaven, By Sean Kelly; Tryptych by Doug and Judy Aleefer
A song about Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin spending their eternal lives doing the drugs that killed them
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