I was dreading comparing parodies to real products in the vintage 11th series, mainly because it is comprised of many magazine parodies which don't have an exact issue or cover that it's spoofing. The artists who worked on the magazine parodies used 100% creative freedom on them. So....starting off the 11th series, we have The Saturday Evening Ghost and The Saturday Evening Post. Note: there was never a May 1975 issue in reality, but I posted images of the April and June 1975 covers for comparison.
I think that it'll be very interesting to see what the magazines looked like back then.
I remember that, when I was a kid, my mom would buy
Woman's Day and
Family Circle every time that we went grocery shopping (until both of them got too expensive for her to do so). Every. Single. Time. Without fail.
It's a pity that both of them were going to be Wackys in the 1970s, but that only Family Circuit made it and Roman's Day didn't. Oh, well, maybe when someone
finally decides to release the rest of the 1970s magazine parodies that didn't make it
at all (possibly in any future 1970s OLDS series (hint hint, nudge nudge))...
Oh, and I haven't forgotten Famine Circle from the lost 1992 Series, either.
Just in case anyone's interested, here are the 1970s magazine parodies known to exist that didn't get released
at all (the information is taken from lostwackys.com in its '74 Wacky Magazines section (except for Cyclone Toons, which is taken from its Lost Wackys section in the category Jay Lynch 1970's Unproduced Rough Art: Black & White)):
*Rotting Zone (
Rolling Stone (still waiting for this one to be released in a future 1970s OLDS series, guys!))*
*Creep (
Creem)*
*Cyclone Toons (
Cycle Toons)*
*Eater's Digest (
Reader's Digest)
*Foodoplay (
Photoplay)*
*Grumpy Dumpty's Magazine (
Humpty Dumpty's Magazine)
*Henhouse (
Penthouse)*
*Madamgazelle (
Mademoiselle)*
*Roman's Day (
Woman's Day)*
*Salami Street Magazine (
Sesame Street Magazine)
*Song Hates Magazine (
Song Hits Magazine)*
*True Confetti (
True Confessions)
*Zit Parader (
Hit Parader)*.
These were all done by both Art Spiegelman and Jay Lynch (Jay's Wackys are marked with an asterisk; the ones that aren't are Art's). Only Rotting Zone exists as a finished Wacky, the rest of them are all roughs done in either black and white or color.
The 1985 Series also released these three magazine parodies:
*T.V. Ghoul (
T.V. Guide)
*National Retirer (
National Enquirer)
*Pimple Weekly (
People Weekly).
However, the 1991 Series only released one:
*Popps Magazine (
Topps Magazine).
The one 1991 Series parody was drawn by Drew Friedman and painted by Patrick Piggott. I don't know who did the artwork for the three 1985 Series parodies.
Now, as a bonus, here's some more magazine parodies from the lost 1992 Series that also haven't been released -
yet:
*BOB Magazine (
BOP Magazine)
*Boy's Lice (
Boy's Life)
*CHIN (
SPIN)
*Famine Circle (
Family Circle)
*Heaventeen (
Seventeen)
*LG (Louse & Garbage) (
HG (
House & Garden))
*Sad (
Mad)
*Scar (
Star)
*Soldier of Misfortune (
Soldier of Fortune)
*Spleen Beat (
Teen Beat)
*TV Died (
TV Guide).
The roughs for these parodies were also drawn by Drew Friedman and, except for two of them (CHIN and Heaventeen) that exist
only as rough art, the finished art for the rest of them was also painted by Patrick Piggott (two of these parodies, however (Famine Circle and LG (Louse & Garbage)), are unfinished, having only their titles and illustrations on both of them and the text for both of them on their roughs, but
not on their final paintings).
Three finished magazine parodies from this series, however,
have been released:
*Cranked Out! (
Cracked)
*Harassame Street Magazine (
Sesame Street Magazine)
*Richie Retch Big Chunks (
Richie Rich Big Bucks).
The first two parodies were done by Tom Bunk and the third parody was done by John Pound. Strange that
their magazine parodies for the lost 1992 Series were officially released, while Drew and Patrick's for the same series
still remain officially unreleased.
Next, there were two fiction book parodies that were both made for the 15th Series (and which had also both been made into now-classic films by that time):
*Gums (
Jaws)
*The Clodfather (
The Godfather).
As everyone here knows, obviously, the first one
was released and the second one
wasn't (still waiting for this one to be released in a future 1970s OLDS series too, guys!). Also, I don't know who did the artwork for these two, either.
Later, the 1991 Series released three children's book parodies (one Little Golden Book parody and two Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss parodies) and one series book for pre-teen girls parody:
*Little Dead Kitten (
The Shy Little Kitten)
*One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Dead Fish (
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish)
*The Rat in the Cat (
The Cat in the Hat)
*The Baby-Splitters Club #1313: Separated at Birth-Day (
The Baby-Sitters Club #21:
The Trouble with Twins).
Another Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss parody was intended for this series, but it wouldn't be released until 2005 in ANS2:
*Plop on Pop (
Hop on Pop: The Simplest Seuss For Youngest Use)
However, the lost 1992 Series has only one finished book parody (which was a series book for teen girls parody this time and, like this series' magazine parodies, again hasn't been released -
yet):
*Sweat Valley High #666: Playing for Creeps (
Sweet Valley High #49:
Playing for Keeps).
Both the series book for pre-teen girls parody from the 1991 Series and the series book for teen girls parody from the lost 1992 Series mentioned here were, again, drawn by Drew Friedman and painted by Patrick Piggott. In the 1991 Series, Tom Bunk did the first and third children's book parodies in the above list and John Pound did the second children's book parody in the same list as well as Plop on Pop.
Well, not counting the ones that are being mentioned here now and the ones that will be mentioned later on, that's all of the known periodicals (i.e., books and magazines) that were parodied (or not) by
Wacky Packages in (and outside of) the OS run and before 2004.