NUTS June 1997 - ? NUTS Magazine Inc.
Back in '97 it was a breath of fresh air to finally see a humor magazine on glossy pages in color (heck it only took 40 years to revive this concept from back in '57 when Harvy Kurtzman did it with TRUMP!!!). NUTS was a product of Canada and only a few issues were distributed stateside. The style and feel of the material is much more European in nature being more reminiscent of France's Fluide Glacial than MAD some of which being a little more riske than any US mag would have dared put out at that time. Each issue had a pull out poster in the center of the magazine which was a nice touch. It was a pity when all of a sudden it was unavailable. Again this could be related to its $2.95 cover price which was again above that of MAD & CRACKED even though it was in color!
An interesting side note is that during my stint as Co-editor at CRACKED owner Dick Kulpa contemplated using some material/artists from the NUTS although that never materialized.
One more little tidbit is that this was the second time that the name NUTS was used for a humor magazine. The first being in 1958 lasting 2 issues.
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This '90's Nuts magazine was the English translation of a French humor magazine called Safarir, published in Quebec. It is quite popular there and is still published to this day. One of the problems with Nuts is that it was poorly translated in parts, which led to awkward grammer and fractured English. The English version never caught on, and lasted for 10 or 11 issues.
ReplyDeleteHey Tom thanks for the background and info on how many issues there were!
ReplyDeleteI have issues 2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and 10. I thoroughly enjoyed them... they were an exciting addition to MAD and Cracked at the time. I still have these guys in good or better condition... Once I saw that they stopped producing them they would become collector items pretty quick.
ReplyDeleteI have the first issue if you're interested, I'll upload it to eBay.
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DeleteI have issues #1-3 I'm planning on selling.
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