NATIONAL LAMPOON, USA.

     NATIONAL LAMPOON, "The Humour Magazine", ran from 1970 to 1998. The magazine started out as a spinoff from the Harvard Lampoon. National Lampoon magazine reached its height of popularity and critical acclaim during the late 1970s, when it had a far-reaching effect on American humor and comedy. The magazine spawned films, radio, live theatre, various sound recordings, and print products including books.
     The sad evolution of society is such that it would be very difficult or even unthinkable to publish this kind of magazine now.

    "The SON-O-GOD comics series is a part of the magazine. In the Lampoon version of the New Testament’s central figure, “Benny Davis” a nerdy failure-to-launch boychick still living with his parents in Brooklyn, says the name “JESUS CHRIST!” (but not in vain) and transforms (ala Captain Marvel) into a muscular WASP super-hero version of Jesus with a six-pack, cape and halo, ready to do battle with Catholicism, Islam, the Scarlet Woman of Babylon, the Antichrist and even Bob Dylan".
     The SON-O-GOD series debuted in National Lampoon #22, January 1972. See more on dangerousminds.net.

     THE VENTURES OF ZIMMERMAN was part of issue #31, published in October 1972. Anti-semitism is not far in this comic about the money-grubbing Jew Bobby Zimmerman.

     Thank you to Eric Galzi for the improved images.

#31, October 1972 Includes THE VENTURES OF ZIMMERMAN	in #31, October 1972, THE VENTURES OF ZIMMERMAN, by Tony Hendra and Sean Kelly, drawn by Neal Adams.
#50, May 1974, includes SON-O-GOD MEETS ZIMMERMAN	in #50, May 1974, SON-O-GOD MEETS ZIMMERMAN, by Michael Choquette and Sean Kelly, drawn by Neal Adams.
March 1984, no Dylan content inside

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