Friday, February 23, 2018

Fake Fun

As has been most obvious in recent weeks, my focus just isn't up to participating in the thrill of Friday Night Fights, so around these parts, of course, it's time for


We're going home grown for the quiz today - a simple little thing. Back in the '70s, there were two big words used in underground comic titles - Comix and Funnies. There was lots of Funnies, and some of 'em were right oddly  named. So here we are.
Your job - spot the fakes. A useful skill these days, to be sure, so let's help train the brain to weed out the flimflammery.
Yes, that's a word. Now.

We have here 33 titles from comix from the '70s (give or take a year). More than half of these are real titles. Decide if each of the following titles is REAL or FAKE:

REAL___   FAKE___   01) 50s Funnies 
REAL___   FAKE___   02) Air Pirates Funnies 
REAL___   FAKE___   03) Barbarian Killer Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   04) Bijou Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   05) Biochemical Warfare Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   06) Bouncing Broadway Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   07) Brainwreck Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   08) Corporate Lizard Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   09) Deviant Slice Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   10) Dope Fiend Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   11) Downtown Friday Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   12) Facts O' Life Sex Education Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   13) Farm-Out Freak Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   14) Feelgood Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   15) Flamed Out Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   16) Flying F! Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   17) Folk Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   18) Fuktup Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   19) Groin Kick Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   20) Half Assed Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   21) High Flyin' Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   22) Home Grown Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   23) Hydrogen Bomb Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   24) Infamous Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   25) Leaking Brain Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   26) Left Field Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   27) Lets Not 'n Say We Did Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   28) Like Nobody's Bizness Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   29) Nixon Ate My Mom Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   30) Ratfukk Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   31) Rock 'n Roll Madness Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   32) Roxy Funnies
REAL___   FAKE___   33) Why Don't We Do It In The Road Funnies

answers (and covers to real titles) tomorrow

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