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• 7 •  Cartoon: "One day, when he's old and feeble, he'll be in a nostalgic mood, and he'll come up here to see us again, and to reminisce...and then we'll get him!" • (1965) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 8 •  Cartoon: "And you, of course, are the best man!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 8 •  Cartoon: "I think she heard us!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 9 •  Cartoon: "I've tried to make it as authentic as I could!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 10 •  Cartoon: "Then over there we put the pizzeria." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 10 •  Cartoon: "No caption" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 11 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [2] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 11 •  Cartoon: "Do you ever catch yourself wondering if all this is only part of some crazy experiment?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 12 •  Cartoon: "Well, we found out what's been clogging your drains!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 13 •  Cartoon: "Stop Yield Caution" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 14 •  Cartoon: "I'll just take half a dozen since they're super jumbo." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 14 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [3] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 15 •  Cartoon: "There's an amusing little legend connected with that..." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 16 •  Cartoon: "I'm sorry, young man, I just can't go through with this ceremony!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 17 •  Cartoon: "Cheap bastard!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 17 •  Cartoon: "Beat it, mac—this entourage is complete!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 18 •  Cartoon: "Tell them I'm only human, like everybody else." • (1977) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 18 •  Cartoon: "Something's wrong with Uncle Ted." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 19 •  Cartoon: "Wait a minute. There's another little wrinkly spot over here." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 19 •  Cartoon: "I call it a club!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 20 •  Cartoon: "How the hell am I supposed to run a talk show with guests like these?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 21 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [4] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 21 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [5] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 22 •  Cartoon: "What the hell is all this?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 23 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [6] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 23 •  Cartoon: "...but you're not interested in this job at all—are you, Mr. Cosgrove!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 24 •  Cartoon: "First they guess wrong on Kohoutek, and now this!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 24 •  Cartoon: "Yes, Miller, I'm sparing no expense in bringing our equipment here at Acme up to date." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 25 •  Cartoon: "I've always known R.H. would be able to do that!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 26 •  Cartoon: "Look—who cares how much thyme you use?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 26 •  Cartoon: "...and get rid of that!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 27 •  Cartoon: "Really worked up quite an appetite last night, eh, Mr. Blessing?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 27 •  Cartoon: "You mean you survived the last seventeen years on a diet of little green lizards?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 28 •  Cartoon: "...but I'd forgotten that you've had him executed, haven't you?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 28 •  Cartoon: "For God's sake, man—do your part and bolt the stuff down!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 29 •  Cartoon: "Yes, these will do nicely." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 30 •  Cartoon: "Eureka" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 30 •  Cartoon: "Oh, God—now here go the people from downstairs!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 31 •  Cartoon: "On the other hand, if I'm dead, so what?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 31 •  Cartoon: "The view is over this way, you old fool!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 32 •  Cartoon: "Now if the F.D.A. doesn't tumble to us, we'll make a bundle!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 32 •  Cartoon: "Third time I've spotted her this week!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 33 •  Cartoon: "When did you first become aware of this imagined 'plot to get you,' Mr. Potter?" • (1973) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 34 •  Cartoon: "In your bare hands, as usual, Mr. Rodgers?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 35 •  Cartoon: "Of course, in life he was allergic to them." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 36 •  Cartoon: "I'm sorry—where was I?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 37 •  Cartoon: "Say please." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 37 •  Cartoon: "You'll be sorry you did this, Agnes!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 38 •  Cartoon: "Talk about your cut-rate operations..." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 39 •  Cartoon: "Well, I'm sure I don't know him!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 39 •  Cartoon: "Think back, Margie! Did you go to a toy store, a novelty shop—anything like that?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 40 •  Cartoon: "Me and my big mouth!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 40 •  Cartoon: "I'm not going to shoot you, buddy—that would be too easy. I'm going to let you live so you can stand trial!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 41 •  Cartoon: "Get me God again, Miss Parker." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 41 •  Cartoon: "He hasn't been the same since George died." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 42 •  Cartoon: "Then Mrs. Cratchit entered, smiling proudly, with the pudding. Oh, a wonderful pudding! Shaped like a cannon-ball, blazing in half-a-quartern of ignited brandy bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top, and stuffed full with plums and sweetmeats and sodium diacetate and monoglyceride and potassium bromate and aluminum phosphate and calcium phosphate monobasic and chloromine T and aluminum potassium sulfate and calcium propionate and sodium alginate and butylated hydroxyanisole and..." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 43 •  Cartoon: "...but I certainly appreciate your making the house call, doctor." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 43 •  Cartoon: "When he's smiling, that means he's happy—right?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 44 •  Cartoon: "What are these funny black things you've sewn onto your sleeves, Edwin?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 44 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [7] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 45 •  Cartoon: "Oh, yes—do come in!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 46 •  Cartoon: "Humorous condolence cards" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 46 •  Cartoon: "All very well and good—but now we come to chart B." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 47 •  Cartoon: "When will you accept it, Hallahan? I am holier than thou." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 47 •  Cartoon: "OK, what the hell—I'll throw in Bulgaria." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 48 •  Cartoon: "Here, puss, puss, puss!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 49 •  Cartoon: "...and around the corner ahead of you, to the left, is a picturesque, local ruffian laying in wait with a club..." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 50 •  Cartoon: "...but then I realized in order to make it work I'd have to invent a socket and God knows what else." • (1976) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 50 •  Cartoon: "I don't know, Harry, you used to be such great fun." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 51 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [8] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 51 •  Cartoon: "I suppose it's got something to do with the operation being held on Saint Valentine's Day." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 52 •  Cartoon: "My goodness, Mr. Merryweather, we certainly did make a boo-boo with that prescription of yours!" • (1970) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 53 •  Cartoon: "T.G.I.F.!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 53 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [9] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 54 •  Cartoon: "To the main highway? Take the first left, turn along the hill till you get to the Devil's Mouth." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 55 •  Cartoon: "Damn it, Fletcher—it's just not playing the game!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 55 •  Cartoon: "Keep chuckling. He has a way of suddenly stepping back into the room." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 56 •  Cartoon: "I think he's gone soft!" • (1976) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 57 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [10] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 57 •  Cartoon: "Well, there's not much here..." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 58 •  Cartoon: "Gee—it's just like in the movies!" • (1973) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 59 •  Cartoon: "You're right—this scene did call for a stunt man!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 59 •  Cartoon: "You're spoiling it for the rest of us on purpose, aren't you?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 60 •  Cartoon: "Take it from me, buddy—at seventy-five score and ten it's a steal." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 60 •  Cartoon: "Why, no, I can't say as how I ever noticed the resemblance." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 61 •  Cartoon: "I'm afraid you got the wrong Martin Barker." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 61 •  Cartoon: "You'd think a person who looked like Abraham Lincoln would show a little self-respect!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 62 •  Cartoon: "Don't get it wrong, Bridget—the sacrifice of a white rooster every third day at precisely high noon without fail!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 62 •  Cartoon: "Oh, shut up, Johnson. We'll go back to using puppies the second they send us some more!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 63 •  Cartoon: "Harry—you're spoiling Thanksgiving for the children!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 63 •  Cartoon: "It was years before I realized they don't really need me after a certain number of drinks." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 64 •  Cartoon: "Oh, Irwin, I wish to God you'd get rid of that thing!" • (1972) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 65 •  Cartoon: "Site of the hut where Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden Pond" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 66 •  Cartoon: "Gee, I don't know; this is kind of depressing!" • (1977) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 66 •  Cartoon: "You're fired, Mysto!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 67 •  Cartoon: "S__T!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 67 •  Cartoon: "Where the hell's that kid got to?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 68 •  Cartoon: "I'll let you have one when you're not crazy." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 68 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [11] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 69 •  Cartoon: "Harry, I really think you ought to go to the doctor." • (1968) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 70 •  Cartoon: "I'd say it's a pretty obvious case of evolution taking a wrong turn." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 70 •  Cartoon: "Well—is he coming out or isn't he?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 71 •  Cartoon: "Tell me, Captain, how did you come to call your boat the Revenge?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 72 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [12] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 73 •  Cartoon: "Of course you realize this may be a difficult birth." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 73 •  Cartoon: "Only mushrooms—no toadstools or footstools!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 74 •  Cartoon: "One small step for a znargh—one giant leap for znarghkind!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 75 •  Cartoon: "Young Brewster's really coming along, isn't he?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 75 •  Cartoon: "What's that, kid? I can't make out what you're trying to say." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 76 •  Cartoon: "I'm over here, you fool!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 76 •  Cartoon: "My God—it must be really bad tonight!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 77 •  Cartoon: "Better get a replacement for Parker." • (1976) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 77 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [13] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 78 •  Cartoon: "Oh, stop bitching about it, will you? It's all been over and done with for years!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 79 •  Cartoon: "I'm sorry, Mr. Cheever, but there's absolutely nothing in your warranty about the howler turning into a pumpkin." • (1976) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 79 •  Cartoon: "It's that bug that's been going around town." • (1977) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 80 •  Cartoon: "He can't stand the idea of no-fault insurance." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 81 •  Cartoon: "Jones Farm" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 81 •  Cartoon: "That? Oh, that's a leftover from more thoughtful days, I'm afraid!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 82 •  Cartoon: "Enough yin. More yang." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 82 •  Cartoon: "Tag Sale" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 83 •  Cartoon: "General Electric beat him out on his Death Ray and he's simply furious!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 84 •  Cartoon: "Seems like everyone's into that new fad diet!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 84 •  Cartoon: "...and when it gets there I'm going to give it a little electric shock and that will send it straight back up again!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 85 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [14] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 86 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [15] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 86 •  Cartoon: "Back where you belong, rube." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 87 •  Cartoon: "Don't let it push you around, Mrs. Harris!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 88 •  Cartoon: "So that's where it got to!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 88 •  Cartoon: "Dr. Kreuger—what are you doing in my recurrent nightmare?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 89 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [16] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 89 •  Cartoon: "Floor, please." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 90 •  Cartoon: "This is not going to help my Messianic complex, doctor." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 91 •  Cartoon: "Of course he eats like a horse—what in God's name did you expect?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 91 •  Cartoon: "I am sorry, ma'am, but this is really very much out of my line." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 92 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [17] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 92 •  Cartoon: "I'll talk! I'll TALK!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 93 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [18] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 93 •  Cartoon: "I'm afraid all we can do is operate and hope they don't continue to spread!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 94 •  Cartoon: "I AM AN INSANE EYE DOCTOR AND I AM GOING TO KILL YOU NOW AS YOU SIT THERE READING THIS" • (1971) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 95 •  Cartoon: "Jesus Christ, Sergeant—what the hell kind of place is this?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 96 •  Cartoon: "All right, folks—let's give a great big welcome to little Miss Dynamite!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 96 •  Cartoon: "Didn't work out, eh?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 97 •  Cartoon: "Professor Zlata! you're just in time to be the planet Neptune!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 98 •  Cartoon: "You any idea what these stains are, sir?" • (1976) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 98 •  Cartoon: "Now you've got to tilt it a little more to the back..." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 99 •  Cartoon: "What the hell's that all about?" • (1978) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 100 •  Cartoon: "Ah, well—back to business." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 100 •  Cartoon: "Let's get out of here—this place is driving me crazy!" "Let's get out of here—this place is driving me crazy!" "Let's get out of here—this place is driving me crazy!" "Let's get out of here—this place is driving me crazy!" "Let's get out of here—this place is driving me crazy!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 101 •  Cartoon: "The place sure has changed!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 101 •  Cartoon: "Oh, yeah, and forget that idea I had about hiring girl elves." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 102 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [19] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 103 •  Cartoon: "You're not telling Mr. Bennett what he wants to hear!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 103 •  Cartoon: "You fiend—you could at least let me have a little dignity!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 104 •  Cartoon: "I knew this would happen if those damned conservationists had their way!" • (1972) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 105 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [20] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 105 •  Cartoon: "Er, what say we take that old pulse again, Mr. Ford?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 106 •  Cartoon: "Inspiration Point" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 106 •  Cartoon: "Wow—that is some mount of Venus you have!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 107 •  Cartoon: "Mr. Thoreau is a very busy man!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 107 •  Cartoon: "Closed due to angst" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 108 •  Cartoon: "So that's where you got to!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 108 •  Cartoon: "Just what makes you think Charles' hobby is getting out of hand, Mrs. Harding?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 109 •  Cartoon: "And to those of you who did contribute to the church fund—our blessings." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 110 •  Cartoon: "The patient is unaccountable depressed." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 110 •  Cartoon: "The population explosion isn't bad enough, Handlesman, you've got to dream up something like this!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 111 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [21] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 111 •  Cartoon: "By god—you're what I've needed around here for years!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 112 •  Cartoon: "No caption (Sacrifices at 4:00 and 6:00 PM)" • (1969) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 113 •  Cartoon: "It's deterrent, Admiral, not detergent." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 113 •  Cartoon: "See that, Stanley? That's the kind of thing I want you to avoid!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 114 •  Cartoon: "Horrible Indigestible Things That Will Make You Sick" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 114 •  Cartoon: "...but enough of levity..." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 115 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [23] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 116 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [24] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 116 •  Cartoon: "Yes, you are a square peg in a round hole. Precisely." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 117 •  Cartoon: "God knows it's cheap enough living here, but it sure is depressing!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 118 •  Cartoon: "I'll have whatever you've got à la financière" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 118 •  Cartoon: "Surprise!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 119 •  Cartoon: "I told you not to do that!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 120 •  Cartoon: "I can remember when that sort of thing meant a lot to me!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 121 •  Cartoon: "We may already be too late, Mr. Parker." • (1969) • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 122 •  Cartoon: "Good heavens—this must mean we've practically finished him off!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 122 •  Cartoon: "All this fuss and bother just because of a damned heart attack!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 123 •  Cartoon: "No caption" [25] • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 124 •  Cartoon: "Remember when we first started coming out here, Sweetie?" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 124 •  Cartoon: "Come on, folks—let's see if we can't bring him back for just one more commandment!" • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 125 •  Cartoon: "Here comes that Wilson boy—all alone as usual." • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson