National Lampoon Magazine #57

"Special Origin Issue" is a gloriously absurd deep dive into the surreal logic of 1974, where a law sentencing zoo tramps to 60 years in jail, a breakthrough in turning platypus droppings into plutonium, and Judge Jones’s sudden desire to get married all spiral into a single, gloriously tangled narrative. Written, drawn, inked, and lettered by Ed Subitzky, this one-of-a-kind issue from National Lampoon Magazine #57 is a fever dream of bureaucratic absurdity and scientific farce, all delivered with the magazine’s signature deadpan wit. The cover by Ed Subitzky perfectly captures the tone—wild, weird, and utterly committed to its own internal logic.