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3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Acceptable, with reservations, 2008-03-07
First subscribed to NatLamp August 1970, magazine was great until it jumped the shark in the mid 80's, had every issue until the basement flooded in 1991 and destroyed my entire collection. I cried. Been waiting for this DVD for a loooong time. Only slightly disappointed. I was not really aware of the sheer number of advertisements in each issue, this DVD has them all. There is a National Lampoon "watermark" running across every page when displayed, not sure if that can be turned off but I find it very distracting and it interferes badly with some of the pages that didn't scan too well to begin with.
Loved seeing the "Trots and Bonnie" comics again, had forgotten how funny "True Facts" really was, and reading Chris Millers many pre-"Animal House" stories was icing on the cake.
Would have liked to have had a "search" function, for the price this is a decent piece of work. 4 stars.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great magazine--lousy scan job, 2008-03-01
It is great to be able to reread the humor of the past, even to the issue with Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter duking it out on the cover for the November 1976 election issue. The ads for cigarettes, rolling papers, and turntables and stereos are classic. The articles are hip, and the use of nudity and total irreverence was challenging then and makes you wish for something that intelligent now.
On the other hand, the books were scanned by morons who could care less about what they were doing. There are pages missing. There are pages upside down and crooked. The Funny pages are yellowing. The sharpness and brightness of the pages is missing. There is no index or way to search the pages. You want to read Nuts? Flip through issue after issue to the Funny Pages. The scanned originals look like they were stored in somebody's garage for about 20 years. Amazing there aren't stains on the pages with FotoFunnies!
Even the simplest of picture editors--like Microsoft's--can adjust color and brightness to improve an image. Gitcorp obviously paid someone (who could not care less) minimum wage to grab a book, slap it on a scanner, press go, then do the next page. Absolutely NO attention to what they were doing or quality whatsoever. The real shame of this is that whoever has the copyright has no reason to care either--there's no other way you're going to get to read all this stuff.
So, buy the disk. Marvel at the total politically incorrect humor--from cartoons of a naked 13-year-old to spoofs of Ebony and MRs. Agnew's Diary. Then add your opinion of Gitcorp and its scanning techniques.
 Memory Lane, 2008-02-25
This collection takes me back to high school in the 70's. I read every issue of National Lampoon magazine during those years. It was the only source for humor. Sadly they could not publish that magazine in today's politically correct atmosphere. See what funny is and get this collection!
Don't shoot the dog!! I bought the thing!!, 2008-02-09
Hard to beat every issue of the National Lampoon. Granted, some of the them are pretty awful, but as a one time subscriber, it's nice to read the classics again without having to hunt them down at flea markets, antique shows and off Ebay. A pretty small price to pay for some classic comedy.
Frog Legs, 2008-01-02
I was so pleased to find this product. I've been a huge fan of the NatLamp, but the last time i had seen it was after ordering the 1975 back issues about 25 years ago. Seeing all of those glorious issues again is a real treat. Most of these issues were just thumbnail size covers in an ad to me, but now I can pour through them issue by issue. I'm not sure I'll have too much interest in the late 80's through the 90's but I'll really dig the 70's.
The image quality is so-so, not anything that detracts from the content, it just could have been done with much more TLC. The price is certainly right. Highly recommended.
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