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Show off your Uber High Grade UNDERGROUND COMIX !!!

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namisgr

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I just picked up some HELP! Magazines from the 1962 and one has a Wonder War-Hog story.

 

How long has WWH been around?

1962.

 

From Shelton's Wiki page:

 

"Directly after graduation, Shelton moved to New York City and got a job editing automotive magazines, where he would sneak his drawings into print. The idea for the character of Wonder Wart-Hog, a porcine parody of Superman, came to him in 1961. The following year, Shelton moved back to Texas to enroll in graduate school and get a student deferment from the draft. The first two Wonder Wart-Hog stories appeared in Bacchanal, a short-lived college humor magazine, in the spring of 1962. He then became editor of The Texas Ranger and published more Wonder Wart-Hog stories."

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I just picked up some HELP! Magazines from the 1962 and one has a Wonder War-Hog story.

 

How long has WWH been around?

1962.

 

From Shelton's Wiki page:

 

"Directly after graduation, Shelton moved to New York City and got a job editing automotive magazines, where he would sneak his drawings into print. The idea for the character of Wonder Wart-Hog, a porcine parody of Superman, came to him in 1961. The following year, Shelton moved back to Texas to enroll in graduate school and get a student deferment from the draft. The first two Wonder Wart-Hog stories appeared in Bacchanal, a short-lived college humor magazine, in the spring of 1962. He then became editor of The Texas Ranger and published more Wonder Wart-Hog stories."

 

Here's many of the appearances. I've recently discovered a couple of reprints that weren't listed anywhere (one issue even had a WW-H parody I hadn't heard of called Wonder Wart-Piglet). I also received yesterday his reprinted appearance in the Florida Orange Peel college magazine.

I prize my copies of both issues of Bacchanal, try finding a copy out there for sale.

http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/wart-hog/

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I just picked up some HELP! Magazines from the 1962 and one has a Wonder War-Hog story.

 

How long has WWH been around?

1962.

 

From Shelton's Wiki page:

 

"Directly after graduation, Shelton moved to New York City and got a job editing automotive magazines, where he would sneak his drawings into print. The idea for the character of Wonder Wart-Hog, a porcine parody of Superman, came to him in 1961. The following year, Shelton moved back to Texas to enroll in graduate school and get a student deferment from the draft. The first two Wonder Wart-Hog stories appeared in Bacchanal, a short-lived college humor magazine, in the spring of 1962. He then became editor of The Texas Ranger and published more Wonder Wart-Hog stories."

 

Here's many of the appearances. I've recently discovered a couple of reprints that weren't listed anywhere (one issue even had a WW-H parody I hadn't heard of called Wonder Wart-Piglet). I also received yesterday his reprinted appearance in the Florida Orange Peel college magazine.

I prize my copies of both issues of Bacchanal, try finding a copy out there for sale.

http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/wart-hog/

 

Nice research here. The Wikipedia entry doesn't list any dates. Thanks!

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