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</style><table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org" style="font-size: 125%;">Humorama</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category">Division</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Publishing" title="Publishing">Publishing</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">Mid-1950s</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">Mid-1960s</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="Martin_Goodman_(publisher)" title="Martin Goodman (publisher)">Martin Goodman</a><br>Abe Goodman</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Magazine" title="Magazine">Magazine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Red_Circle_(publishing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Circle (publishing)">Red Circle</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Humorama</b>, a division of <a href="Martin_Goodman_(publisher)" title="Martin Goodman (publisher)">Martin Goodman</a>'s publishing firm, was a line of <a href="Digest-sized" class="mw-redirect" title="Digest-sized">digest-sized</a> magazines featuring girlie cartoons by <a href="Bill_Ward_(cartoonist)" title="Bill Ward (cartoonist)">Bill Ward</a>, <a href="Bill_Wenzel" title="Bill Wenzel">Bill Wenzel</a>, <a href="Dan_DeCarlo" title="Dan DeCarlo">Dan DeCarlo</a>, <a href="Jack_Cole_(artist)" title="Jack Cole (artist)">Jack Cole</a> and many others.

</p><p>In addition to the cartoons, the magazines also displayed black-and-white photos of pin-up models, including <a href="Bettie_Page" title="Bettie Page">Bettie Page</a>, <a href="Eve_Meyer" title="Eve Meyer">Eve Meyer</a> and stripper <a href="Lili_St._Cyr" title="Lili St. Cyr">Lili St. Cyr</a>, plus actresses, including <a href="Joi_Lansing" title="Joi Lansing">Joi Lansing</a>, <a href="Tina_Louise" title="Tina Louise">Tina Louise</a>, <a href="Irish_McCalla" title="Irish McCalla">Irish McCalla</a> and <a href="Julie_Newmar" title="Julie Newmar">Julie Newmar</a>.

</p><p>One of Martin Goodman's family members, Abe Goodman, headed this division. The line was published from at least the mid-1950s to mid-1960s. These titles were profitable for the company because the contents were inexpensive and production costs were minimal in comparison to the more complex full-size magazines published by the company.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><i>Breezy</i></li>

<li><i>Cartoon Comedy-Parade</i></li>

<li><i>Cartoon Parade</i></li>

<li><i>Comedy</i></li>

<li><i>Eyeful of Fun</i></li>

<li><i>Fun House</i></li>

<li><i>Humorama</i></li>

<li><i>Instant Laughs</i></li>

<li><i><a href="Joker_(American_magazine)" title="Joker (American magazine)">Joker</a></i></li>

<li><i>Laugh Circus</i></li>

<li><i>Laugh Digest</i></li>

<li><i>Laugh It Off!</i></li>

<li><i>Laugh Riot</i></li>

<li><i>Popular Cartoons</i></li>

<li><i>Popular Jokes</i></li>

<li><i>Stare</i></li>

<li><i>Snappy</i></li>

<li><i>Zip</i> — not to be confused with the British men's magazine of the <a href="ZIP_(magazine)" title="ZIP (magazine)">same name</a></li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Chun, Alex. <i>The Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward</i>, Fantagraphics, 2007.</span>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bipcomics.com/showcase/humorama/index.cfm">Cover Gallery</a></li></ul>

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