Blast #2, 3 of 4

I know how much you missed the rest of the issue of BLAST I have. Continuing my survey of humor magazines that are not MAD, NATIONAL LAMPOON, or CRACKED, here are a few more pages. The last of them will be posted Thursday.







A lot of these magazines had a mascot, I think theirs was this screaming guy. He was on the cover of the first issue designed by Bill Everett.



Mike Kaluta did nothing else for black and white humor magazines except for this. Most of what he did was fantasy/superhero-type stuff. It looks like he, like the rest of the contributors, were just in it for the paycheck.

Blast #2, 1 of 4

BLAST was a peculiar hybrid of MAD and NATIONAL LAMPOON. They did the same kind of parody and used the same format of 52 pages on newsprint, but also had nudity. They only lasted two issues. It had some of the top comic artists, but it still looks like something written at the last minute. It's like when you're in high school and write a paper the night before it's due and don't care as long as it's done.