Sick #49, 3 of 3

This is the last part of the 49th issue of Sick magazine from December 1966. The previous installments were posted last week and the week before.

Remember that in the Mad Men era, the idea of females in the military was considered preposterous. Unlike now where we only have pundits making snickering, sexist jokes, back then the idea didn't even occur to people.

This is what the contents page said about this misogynistic article by Bernard Wiseman:

“Our version about what it would be like if girls were used in our army up front—and if it's up front that counts, these girls really stand out—up front, that is. Copies of this article are being sent to our fighting men overseas—after we turned down their original request to send them the girls.”

I had Howard Beckerman as a teacher when I went to School of Visual Arts. For some reason, he doesn't have Sick on his resumé.

“America's fastest-rising super-teen zooms into our society—our Great Society, that is, to lobby for Teenicaire. This new character is unique, in that he's the first super-hero in adventure history who's a high school dropout.”

Here were a few original pages for this story.

Charles Berger

Sick #45, 2 of 3

Here's more from Sick #45 from June 1966.

Here's what the contents page had to say about “More Poems of the Great Society” (what then-president Lyndon Johnson called the era), illustrated by Arnoldo Franchioni:

“Soul-stirring poems of today, written in blank verse—it happens to rhyme, but reading them you'll say it's the blankest verse you've ever seen. These poems are certain to inspire you to greater heights—you'll want to go up to the roof and jump off!

Stills from Girls On the Beach

Contents: ”A career-planning guide for a career in a field you gotta be crazy to get into today—a field so overspecialized they've now got double-decker couches for split personalities! We guarantee that reading this article will either make you a full-fledged psychiatrist—or send you running to one!”

I couldn't scan the middle, but Napoleon's sign just says “Napoleon Bonaparte 4F”

That was the centerfold, also drawn by Arnoldo “Francho” Franchioni. Here are the celebrities depicted:

(1)Nelson Rockefeller, (2)Richard Burton and (3)Elizabeth Taylor, (4)Sean Connery, (5)Charles DeGaulle, (6)Nikita Krushchev, (7)Santa Claus, (8)Lassie, (9)Robert Kennedy, (10)?, (11)Soupy Sales, (12)The Beatles, (13)Jackie Gleason, (14)Barry Goldwater, (15)Dean Martin, (16)Mia Farrow or Nancy Sinatra?, (17)Frank Sinatra, (18)racist caricature, (19)Ed Sullivan, (20)Jackie Mason, (21)Yogi Berra?, (22)Napoleon Bonaparte, (23)Dick Clark? Likenesses weren't Franchioni's strong suit. Maybe (24) was someone named “Jack” that was competition for the Beatles?, (25)Fidel Castro, (26)Hubert Humphrey, (27)Cassius Clay.

I wasn't born until three years later so feel free to correct me or fill holes.

Of the 25 that are real and that I can identify, 8 are still alive.

I'm not sure who drew that, but here was the original art for it.

Art for this was by Jack Sparling

And here was the original for that, unless you count tracing someone's breast with a ball-point pen on the printed page to be “original art”.

Sick #48, 3 of 3

Sick#48, 3 of 3 The last of Sick #48 from November 1966.

Since the published a few other magazines they always had a few gag cartoons to use as page filler if necessary.

Paul Laikin was one of the few writers to get credit.

As the contents page says in its blurb on this article:

“Another gripping magazine parody—you'll want to hold it tight and shake your fist! This parody salutes the men and women who travel to remote corners of the earth—not to teach natives but to find better places to neck!”

An example of humor magazines at their most...uh...colonial.

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