June 23, 2026
One scorching day about two weeks ago, a very attractive cover model contacted me about a certain issue we produced a half century ago where she was on the cover.
By we, I mean Dan The Man Harshberger and myself. Here is the cover in question:
Inside, the cover story looked like this:
The models for this were Dawn Schutte and Ray Falangees. No one can remember who made the Mexican food clothes but they are quite creative.
Yes, and this was the last issue of the Razz (1972-76) and I must say it's full of extraordinary tidbits and simply awful, juvenile attempts at humor. Cringe worthy, actually.
That said, this still has, ahem, legs:
The inside joke here is that our friend Ed Mell went to school with John Harvey Adamson at North High in Phoenix and Ed lent us his yearbook. Adamson, of course, was convicted of blowing up Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles' car with a model airplane remote control device on June 2, 1976.
Other tidbits in the issue have not aged as well.
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Not sure why we thought this would be funny to have Terry Bell (Olive Mondello) dress up like a tape recorder and interview Sean Kelly, an editor at the National Lampoon on A Mountain in Tucson. But we did and there is no taking it back now.
Confessions of A Honkytonk Drummer
During this period I spent some quality time as a drummer in the Old Pueblo in a Country band called Roy Brown & Country Gold. That resulted in the following cartoon feature which ran in this issue.
But there is one piece that almost got us sued for being disgusting and it is, appalling and lame to say the least. And, on advice of council (that would be Kathy), I scanned it, but I'm afraid it's too gross for this forum.
Meanwhile, there is an installment of the Doper Roper and a sequence that stills stands the test of time. I'll share D-R with you tomorrow.
"Heiffer Dust!"
—Granthum P. Hooker
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