National Lampoon
National Lampoon was an American humor magazine that ran from 1970 to 1998. It
was started in 1969 by Harvard graduates and Harvard Lampoon alumni Douglas
Kenney, Henry Beard, and Robert Hoffman, who first licensed the "Lampoon" name
for a monthly national publication. The first issue, dated April 1970, went on
sale on March 19, 1970, and after a shaky start the magazine rapidly grew in
popularity, with national circulation peaking at 1,000,096 copies sold of the
October 1974 "Pubescence" issue. Its format blended parody and surrealist
content, a section of actual news items call...
