National Lampoon Magazine — November 1976 (Special Election Year Issue: Is Democracy Fixed?)
National Lampoon Magazine — November 1976 (Special Election Year Issue: Is Democracy Fixed?)
The November 1976 "Special Election Year Issue" of National Lampoon arrives with one of the most politically pointed covers in the magazine's history: two grotesque caricatures — Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter — rendered as wrestlers, grinning ear to ear, simultaneously cheating each other in the ring under a purple spotlight. The headline: Is Democracy Fixed?
Published the month of the 1976 presidential election, this issue captures the post-Watergate mood perfectly — a country that had watched its institutions fail in real time, now being asked to choose between two men who looked, from a certain angle, like they were in on the same joke. The Lampoon asked the question out loud.
Nearly fifty years later, the question hasn't aged a day. A genuinely important piece of American political satire from the magazine's creative peak. Bagged and boarded.
- National Lampoon, November 1976
- "The Humor Magazine" — $1.00 cover price
- Special Election Year Issue
- Bagged and boarded
- Vintage collectible magazine, sold as-is
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