We’re back. The festival is ongoing and our friends are here for another week, but going forward we’ll be making time to share material. So above you see scans from Australia’s Adam magazine, published August 1971, with British model Susan Shaw inside and Austrian actress Senta Berger on the rear. The cover illustrates I. W. Coughlan’s story “Killer in Conflict,” in which an assassin is sent to kill an important scientist’s daughter, who’s a free love hippie. The killer finds his target easily enough, but the more she talks to him the less sure he is about his mission. Is it too late for him to turn over a new leaf? At the bottom, do you notice the cartoon concerning flights to Havana? Somebody help us. What’s the joke there? We keep looking at it and can’t understand what the cartoonist is trying for. While we wait for enlightenment on that, you can see many more issues of Adam by clicking its keywords below.
Update: the answer comes from J. Talley who explains: Hi. Longtime fan of your blog. In case no one else has answered your question about the Havana reference in the Aug. 1971 Adam magazine cartoon you put up a few days ago: aircraft hijackings to Cuba were relatively frequent in the late ’60s/early ’70s, so this would fall under the category of “topical humor.”
