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Hello and Welcome to THE REALIST ARCHIVE PROJECT
an authorized and complete republishing of all 146 issues of Paul Krassner's Classic and Uncompromising The Realist Magazine

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The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book (1967)
The Disneyland Memorial Orgy (1967)
The Arrest of Lenny Bruce (1963)
An Impolite Interview with Hugh Hefner (1961)
An Impolite Interview with Woody Allen (1965)
Norman Mailer on LBJ and Paul Krassner on LSD (1965)
Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin on preparing for the 1968 Chicago DNC protests
Krassner: "I Was an Abortionist for the F.B.I." (1966)
Discrimination in the Etiquette of Sweat (1964)
The U.S. Government vs. Abbie Hoffman's Shirt (1968)

Robert Anton Wilson's NEGATIVE THINKING columns:
April 1959 - Sept 1959 - March 1960 - June 1961 - June 1963

much more below, scroll down, all text presented in original format and unedited

Four issues posted a month until the archive is complete.
Please pick from the current list of available Realists:


New - For the month of November:

Notable writing this month:

THE BOMBING OF A BUDDHIST MISSION (1959)
THE ESTHETIC REBELS (1965)
THE AMERICANIZATION OF ZEN (1966)
WILL REVOLUTION SPOIL GROUCHO MARX? (1972)
and see Mae Brussell's classic piece on Nixon at the same page

Be certain to check out the letters columns in all four issues, as always



Artwork of the month: ROSEMERICA'S BABY
Wild Four Page Drug Comic by Paul Krassner and Dick Guindon
Fully captures confused depression of four more years of Nixon

(for other notable Guindon art, see the cover to issue 64 addressing
equally depressing Kitty Genovese incident , e.g. Genovese Syndrome)

Also:

Three Full pages from S. Clay Wilson pages (of ZAP Comix) and
another two page spread of work from archive favorite Air Pirate Dan O'Neill

AND CLICK BELOW for this month's four complete issues:

Issue Number 11 - FEATURING: THE BOMBING OF A BUDDHIST MISSION - Robert Anton Wilson on Conservatives, Phallus Worship and Santa Claus. A Survey of Neo-Nazism. And the Tolerant Pagan on Nixon, Krushchev and G-d - September, 1959 - click to read -

Issue Number 61 - FEATURING: Experts and Other Dangers, Astronauts and Dick Gregory, The Color Line as Projective Test and a special news item with a terrific Guindon illustration entitled: Traces of radioactive Strontium 90 have been found in mother's milk - August, 1965 - click to read -

Issue Number 64 - FEATURING: cover illustration on Kitty Genovese including Klansmen and the House Unamerican Activities Committee, NO COMPLAINTS (a survey), The Junkie Battalion, and Hells Angels vs. Berkeley Vietniks - February, 1966 - click to read -

Issue Number 93 - FEATURING: WILL REVOLUTION SPOIL GROUCHO MARX?, Mae Brussell's classic conspiracy masterwork, WHY WAS MARTHA MITCHELL KIDNAPPED? (featuring numerous notes) THE PARTS LEFT OUT OF LAUGH-IN and a ton of great comics - August, 1972 - click to read -

BONUS ITEM: REALIST SUPPLEMENT #002

This month we also offer a new Supplement
full page illustrated ad from OUI Magazine entitled:


When Paul Krassner told us what LBJ did to JFK
that fateful day on Air Force One, he was lying ...

Click for "PAUL KRASSNER LIES..."
1975 OUI Magazine (Playboy) advertisement on an upcoming interview

Scroll down for previous Supplement, the "Fuck Communism" poster.

We return in December with four new issues
and a Holiday Supplement - Thanks, Ethan

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For the month of October:

Pleased to present another key issue in the history of the magazine,
Double-Sized Issue Number 90, from 1971, which includes:

AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH KEN KESEY

UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU DEAD, NIGGER
by Richard Pryor

Leslie Bacon - Stewart Brand

Scientology Sues The Realist for Three Quarters of a Million Dollars

Nick Kazan on sex with Tricia Nixon

Air Pirate Bobby London on Mickey and Minnie

- - - Much More - - -

Archive also dips all the way down to 1959 with issue number 10, and closes with issue 32 - historically notable for its story on President Kennedy's first marriage and coverage of a 1962 civil rights dispute in Monroe North Carolina.

CLICK BELOW for this month's three complete issues:

Issue Number 10 - FEATURING: "Let's Hate Veterans", Mr Clean For President, INSIDE NORMAN VINCENT POLLYANA and Existential Nursery Rhymes - An early Issue - August, 1959 - click to read -

Issue Number 32 - FEATURING: Should Violence Be Met with Violence? - THE STORY BEHIND THE RUMOR ABOUT PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE, and A VISIT FROM THE F.B.I. - March, 1962 - click to read -

Issue Number 90 - FEATURING: An Impolite Interview with Ken Kesey, A CONVERSATION WITH LESLIE BACON, My Affair with Tricia Nixon, The LSD MURDER TRIAL REVISITED, WHAT HAPPENED ON THE DICK CAVETT SHOW, Uncle Sam Wants You Dead, Nigger, and SCIENTOLOGY SUES THE REALIST FOR THREE-QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS FOR LIBEL AND CONSPIRACY - May-June, 1971 - click to read -

Note: Three issues instead of four this month.
Issue 90 is double sized and counts as two.

We return in November with four new issues

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For the month of September:



Artwork of the month No.1, The Odd Couple, by Robert Grossman

Notable Interviews:

Dr. ALBERT ELLIS (1960) - JOSEPH HELLER (1962)

Highlights:


Air Pirate Dan O'Neill on NEW$ of the World

Paul Krassner on Obscenity and Clockwork Orange (1972)
Robert Anton Wilson on Obscenity and Suddenly Last Summer (1960)
Lenny Bruce on Obscenity, Narcotics and Himself (1964)

Artwork of the month No.2:
Dick Guindon's famous "It's his turn now and then me again"

And of particular note:
One Nation Under God, by Frank Cieciorka

Note: The Realist poster version of this image
will be added as an archive supplement soon

And CLICK BELOW for this month's four complete issues :
Issue Number 16 - FEATURING: An IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH ALBERT ELLIS (part one), My Sortie Against Fidel Castro's Phantom Mig Planes, and "The Doctor with the Frightened Eyes" by Robert Anton Wilson - March, 1960 - click to read -

Issue Number 39 - FEATURING: The Moon Shot Scandal, AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH JOSEPH HELLER (author of Catch 22), a comic strip by Lou Myers, and XMAS EVE AT SAINT JOHN'S - November, 1962 - click to read -

Issue Number 48 - FEATURING: Discrimination in the Etiquette of Sweat, a short piece by Jules Feiffer, MAHATMA, THE JUNKIE by Paul Jacobs and OSCENITY, NARCOTICS & ME by Lenny Bruce - March, 1964 - click to read -

Issue Number 94 - FEATURING: The ODD COUPLE, Clockwork Orange is Coming Off the Screen, and WHY ALL THE NEWS ABOUT POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HAS NOT BEEN FIT TO PRINT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES - October, 1972 - click to read -

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For the month of August:

Note: instead of four issues, this month we offer
three issues and one large-format supplement.

Highlights:

1963 FUCK COMMUNISM! Poster

Norman Mailer (1965) - Lenny Bruce (1961) - Paul Krassner's First LSD Trip (1965)

Impolite Interview:

LINCOLN ROCKWELL (1961)
Head of the American Nazi Party and Confident Presidential Hopeful

Significant Cultural and Political History:



THE YIPPIES ARE GOING TO CHICAGO (1968)

And click below for this month's four complete items:

Issue Number 27 - FEATURING: Lenny Bruce Stream of Conciousness, AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH LINCOLN ROCKWELL, The Diary of a Peace Walker, and "Is Capitalism a Revealed Religion?" by Robert Anton Wilson - June, 1961 - click to read -

DONT FLUSH FOR EVERYTHING - Issue Number 60 - FEATURING: Paul Krassner's First LSD Trip, Norman Mailer on LBJ, REVOLT ON CAMPUS by Phil Ochs, and Dick Guindon's "Old Dad, Poor Dad, We've Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad" - June, 1965 - click to read -

Issue Number 82 - FEATURING: THE YIPPIES ARE GOING TO CHICAGO by Jerry Rubin and by Abbie Hoffman, What Really Happened to Leroi Jones in Newark, UP WITH VIOLENCE, and The Prosthetic Penis Meets the Artificial Vagina - September, 1966 - click to read -

REALIST SUPPLEMENT #001:
The 1963 "FUCK COMMUNISM!" Poster by Paul Krassner and John Francis Putnam - Summer, 1963 - click to see -


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For the month of July:

Interviews:

HUGH HEFNER (1961) - WOODY ALLEN (1965) - TIMOTHY LEARY (1966)

Notable Artwork:


Exhibit A

Junkie HEX
The Fag Battalion

And click below for this month's four complete issues :

Issue Number 26 - FEATURING: Television as a Cause of Disease, An IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH HUGH HEFNER, For the Separation of Church and Sex, Mass Media and Education, and Rumor of the Month - May, 1961 - click to read -

Issue Number 58 - FEATURING: Dick Gregory in Mississippi, AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH WOODY ALLEN, The Realist's Women's Page, EXHIBIT A, and Three Authors in Search of Obscene Literature - April, 1965 - click to read -

Note: Brief piece, "Statistical Suggestion", by Kurt Vonnegut, on Page 22

Issue Number 69 - FEATURING: The Whitey Survival Manual, The Day the Supreme Court Banned Vaseline, AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH TIMOTHY LEARY, The Fag Battalion, and A JUNKIE HEX FOR CITY DWELLERS - September, 1966 - click to read -

Issue Number 84 - FEATURING: The CASE OF THE COCK-SURE GROUPIES (with Cynthia Plastercaster), The Trial of Abbie Hoffman's Shirt (with the US Government), REPORTER AT SMALL, and Crime and the Bedside Manner - November, 1968 - click to read -

Note: The Trial of Abbie Hoffman is not a satire. In 1968 Hoffman was charged with a federal crime for wearing a shirt resembling an American Flag. (link) - Additionally, this issue contains one of the earliest articles on Groupies, and is referenced on the back cover of the widely sampled and bootlegged 1969 Groupies Documentary LP

 

AND INITIALLY


Our first post. For the month of June:
Issue Number 41 - FEATURING: The Arrest of Lenny Bruce, an Impolite Interview with Paul Krassner, NEGATIVE THINKING by Robert Anton Wilson, Epizootics by Gershon Legman, and the F.D.A. vs SCIENTOLOGY - June, 1963 - click to read -

Issue Number 66 - FEATURING: I Was An Abortionist for the F.B.I., LETTERS TO NIKITA KRUSHCHEV, The March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam by Dick Guindon and THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CEREMONY - April, 1966 - click to read

Issue Number 74 - FEATURING: The Parts That Were Left out of the Kennedy Book, The Disneyland Memorial Orgy, Soft-core Pornography of the Month, and The Cynic Route from Crazy SANE to Loving Haight - May, 1967 - click to read -

Issue Number 81 - THE DIGGER PAPERS - FEATURING: A Curse on the Pentagon, The Birth of Digger Batman, Take a Cop to Dinner, and The Black Panther Black Community News Service - August, 1968 - click to read -


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