Horseshit, the Offensive Review

Editor: Robert Dunker & Thomas Dunker (1965-1969)

Publisher: Scum Publishing Company

Horseshit, the Offensive Review: it's not safe for work! No, really. In 1965, this publication existed on the shelves of magazine racks in a brown paper bag. Think illustrated nudity, randy jokes and jabs. The Dunker brothers are also a couple of political grumps. If you're easily offended, this may be one to skip.

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Issues

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  1970 No. 4

  Format: Print;

  Language: English

  Friends, due to explicit content concerns (more than usual for this publication), I will not be putting up the PDF for this issue. I now know why it's hard to find an image of this issue. But I want you to know it exists.

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  1968 No. 3

  Format: Print; PDF;

  Language: English

  My notes for this section come from the 4th and last issue of this magazine. Thomas Dunker writes: "Those of you who have read the previous issues might be interested to know that our attacks upon the military have received the greatest acclaim from guys in the service in Vietnam. And the few objectors all seemed to be civilians in the states." This issue does some heavy lifting in their "attacks upon the military."

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  1967 No. 2

  Format: Print; PDF;

  Language: English

  A bit more of a religious lean in this one--and not the bible kind. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say! But hey, when you read "Cunt Is a Christian Word," remember that sometimes employing vulgar language through religious imagery is a critique of obscenity laws and religious hypocrisy--nothing more.

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  1965 No. 1

  Format: Print; PDF;

  Language: English

  I'll be honest, I don't know what to write here--Enjoy the "dirty-minded"? Sure, I mean, it's offensive, but if you are a repressed catholic, you might get something out of it?

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