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With fatally accurate irony, Kurtzman delivered his declaration of editorial principles in the first issue: "We won't write for morons. We won't do anything just to get laughs. We won't be dirty. We won't be grotesque. We won't be in bad taste. We won't sell magazines."

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  • Humbug (magazine)
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  • With fatally accurate irony, Kurtzman delivered his declaration of editorial principles in the first issue: "We won't write for morons. We won't do anything just to get laughs. We won't be dirty. We won't be grotesque. We won't be in bad taste. We won't sell magazines."
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Category
  • Satirical magazine
Country
  • United States
Frequency
  • Monthly
Language
  • English
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  • Editor
Image caption
  • Cover illustration by Jack Davis for Humbug #2
Title
  • Humbug
firstdate
  • August 1957
Image File
  • Humbug issue 2 cover.jpg
Publisher
  • Humbug, Inc.
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  • With fatally accurate irony, Kurtzman delivered his declaration of editorial principles in the first issue: "We won't write for morons. We won't do anything just to get laughs. We won't be dirty. We won't be grotesque. We won't be in bad taste. We won't sell magazines." Several of the project's contributing artists had previously worked with Kurtzman when he was the editor of Mad, including Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Al Jaffee and Will Elder. The 32-page first issue (August 1957) featured a front cover by Elder (with the announcement "The End of the World Is Coming" inside a border design depicting contemporary life). Interior artwork was by Elder, Kurtzman, Wood, Davis, Jaffee and Arnold Roth. Outside writer contributions included a piece by the novelist and screenwriter Ira Wallach. Elder illustrated Kurtzman's satire of television's rigged Twenty One quiz show, and Davis spoofed the Elia Kazan film of Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll (1956). The second issue expanded from 32 pages to 48 pages. Later issues included text pieces by Larry Siegel, who would soon move on to a 32-year stint with Mad. Al Jaffee returned to Mad in the same issue as Siegel, and has remained with the magazine for more than half a century. Wally Wood was the only artist to work simultaneously for Mad and Kurtzman's post-Mad projects; after Humbug folded, Wood was a Mad regular until 1964. It took Jack Davis seven years to return to Mad; the artist's second run at Mad lasted from 1965 to 1996.
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