Humor features

Combing through mens magazines looking for gag cartoons I noticed a lot had humor features like one might find in MAD, though usually more “adult”. Here are some.

From an issue of Fun House sometime in 1980, though this was done sometime in the sixties. Fun House was one of many titles Magazine Management had that recycled gags,captions, and photos, for decades. Pussycatwas even collected . Not sure who the final artist was but its possible Bill Ward or Wallace Wood might have been involved in the breakdowns.

Mort Gerberg, from Hi-Life, August 1964

Jem, July 1963. By Charles Rodrigues

Mister Cool, circa 1961.

Monsieur, September 1965.

Art Cumings, Penthouse, October 1978

The last of just the illos. Merry Christmas.

This month instead of the gag cartoons from old girlie magazines, I've been showing the illustrations.

This one's from the June 1962 issue of Bachelor

Cabaret, September 1956

The next few pages were in Caper, September 1965

Hi-Life, July 1963

Issues of Jem sometime in the late 50s or early 60s.

Gag cartoons

Gag by Art Lutner in Gallery sometime in 1972.

From Jem #1. The top two are by Bill Ward Bob Tupper By Art Lutner from Sir Knight volume 5, number 8 Jim Willoughby from that same issue. Slim Johnson From Man's Combat number 4 This two-pager by Vic Martin from Man's Daring volume 4, number 2 in July 1962, from Candar Publications, a branch of the same company that published Cracked. From Man's True Danger, July 1967, also from Candar. These pages are by Bill Wenzel. Bernard Wiseman from the June 1963 issue of Rogue. A lot of gag cartoonists also did children's books.

Pete Wyma doing a variation on this.