O.T.-"If You Don't Buy This Magazine,We'll Kill This Dog"

[RUhasarrived]

So read the front cover of the National Lampoon,an on the edge humor magazine,in Jan.1973

The artist for the cover,Michael C.Gross,passed away this week at age 70,outlasting the Lampoon by 17 years.

The cover caused a lot of barking at the time.

 

[SanFranRutgers]

That's a 20th Century American Icon up there with "Nighthawks," "American Gothic," and this one:

... and for those who don't know what you were talking about, it's this: