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a complete and unexpurgated republishing of all 146 issues (including supplements and related ephemera) of The Realist (historic underground magazine, more information)





March 20, 2020: Welcome to the archive! If this is your first visit, scroll down for access to individual issues. You can also start with issue one. The first webpage of each issue has a PDF download link and a next button for each subsequent issue.



May 2020: Just published. Listen to the archive's audio tribute to Paul, "The Portable Paul Krassner" - If you use The Realist Archive in an educational context, we recommend this album to go along with the course. A six-piece biography from phone conversations, originally for an interview with The American Bystander:



The Portable Paul Krassner (Interview, 2017) by Ethan Persoff



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"When eating a sandwich at the delicatessen, be sure to remove the toothpick before taking your first bite." - Paul Krassner



July 2019: In tribute and loving memory to our dear friend Paul. The world has lost a wise one. But he left an amazing treasure of work and an example of how to live life on one's own terms, compassions, and strengths. Right up to the end, Paul was prolific and gifted. Read his last published piece, published in Variety last week. See his two collections from Fantagraphics.



If this archive has been of any value to you (or if this is your first visit), please consider a donation to his family through GoFundMe.

Archive now complete with 146 full issues. Select an issue from the following list.

Pick an issue of The Realist, then click the GO Button ------------------------------------ Issue No. 01 - PREMIERE ISSUE - AN ANGRY YOUNG MAGAZINE (1958) Issue No. 02 - SEX EDUCATION FOR THE MODERN CATHOLIC CHILD (1958) Issue No. 03 - DANISH PASTRY AND CHINESE FORTUNE COOKIES (1958) Issue No. 04 - INTERVIEW WITH A TEEN-AGE NAZI (1958) Issue No. 05 - XMAS ERECTIONS CHALLENGED IN COURT (1958) Issue No. 06 - ACT AND ART OF NONCOMFORMITY (1959) Issue No. 07 - CONTRACEPTIVE CONFLICT AND ABORTION EVE (1959) Issue No. 08 - THE SEMANTICS OF GOD by Robt Anton Wilson (1959) Issue No. 09 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL (1959) Issue No. 10 - THE INCREDIBLE SAGA OF A PSYCHOQUACK (1959) Issue No. 11 - BOMBING OF A BUDDHIST MISSION (1959) Issue No. 12 - CATHOLICISM AND SEX EDUCATION (1959) Issue No. 13 - BOMBS and THE KING KONG DEFENSE SYSTEM (1959) Issue No. 14 - AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH ALAN WATTS (1959/1960) Issue No. 15 - AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH LENNY BRUCE (1960) Issue No. 16 - AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH DR ALBERT ELLIS (1960) Issue No. 17 - REFOCUSING ON HIPS AND SQUARES (1960) Issue No. 18 - INTERVIEW WITH AN ANARCHIST/COMMUNIST (1960) Issue No. 19 - INTERVIEW WITH RADIO COMEDIAN HENRY MORGAN (1960) Issue No. 20 - INTERVIEW WITH SATIRIST JEAN SHEPHERD (1960) Issue No. 21 - SPACE TRAVEL NOT A CURE FOR OVERPOPULATION (1960) Issue No. 22 - HELP PUT THE X BACK IN XMAS (1960) Issue No. 23 - INTERVIEW WITH JULES FEIFFER (1961) Issue No. 24-25 - COLLEGE TEACHER IN MISSISSIPPI (1962) Issue No. 26 - HUGH HEFFNER INTERVIEWED (1961) Issue No. 27 - LINCOLN ROCKWELL INTERVIEWED (1961) Issue No. 28 - IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH SHEL SILVERSTEIN (1961) Issue No. 29 - IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH DICK GREGORY (1961) Issue No. 30 - J.D. SALINGER - CONTROVERSY IN THE CATCHER (1961) Issue No. 31 - THE F.B.I. IN PEACE AND COLD WAR (1962) Issue No. 32 - PRES. KENNEDY'S UNKNOWN FIRST MARRIAGE (1962) Issue No. 33 - THE REPEAT SET, PART ONE (1962) Issue No. 34 - THE REPEAT SET, PART TWO (1962) Issue No. 35 - AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH AN ABORTIONIST (1962) Issue No. 36 - A CONVERSATION WITH HOMOSEXUALS - Pt 1 (1962) Issue No. 37 - A CONVERSATION WITH HOMOSEXUALS - Pt 2 (1962) Issue No. 38 - A CONVERSATION WITH HOMOSEXUALS - Pt 3 (1962) Issue No. 39 - JOSEPH HELLER INTERVIEWED (1962) Issue No. 40 - NORMAN MAILER INTERVIEWED (1962) Issue No. 41 - THE ARREST OF LENNY BRUCE (1963) Issue No. 42 - PORTRAIT OF A STEREOTYPE/FASTEST GROIN (1963) Issue No. 43 - TERRY SOUTHERN INTERVIEWS A FAGGOT MALE NURSE (1963) Issue No. 44 - THE TRIAL OF EROS MAGAZINE pt 1 (1963) Issue No. 45 - THE TRIAL OF EROS MAGAZINE pt 2 (1963) Issue No. 46 - THE TRIAL OF EROS MAGAZINE pt 3 (1963) Issue No. 47 - YUGOSLAVIAN EICHMANN IN THE U.S (1964) Issue No. 48 - DISCRIMINATION WITH SWEAT (1964) Issue No. 49 - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ISSUE (1964) Issue No. 50 - AN IMPOLITE INTERVIEW WITH TERRY SOUTHERN (1964) Issue No. 51 - COMMUNISM AND THE DEMON A.A. (1964) Issue No. 52 - TIMOTHY LEARY AND HIS PSYCHOLOGICAL H-BOMB (1964) Issue No. 53 - WALTER CRONKITE FOR PRESIDENT (1964) Issue No. 54 - THE FECALPHILES by LENNY BRUCE (1964) Issue No. 55 - LENNY BRUCE'S FAKE OBITUARY (1964) Issue No. 56 - PSYCHEDELICS, POT and WALTER JENKINS (1965) Issue No. 57 - TRANSVESTITES AND CHILDREN WITH NO GENITALS (1965) Issue No. 58 - WOODY ALLEN INTERVIEWED (1965) Issue No. 59 - COMIC BOOK ESCALATION OF THE WAR IN VIETNAM (1965) Issue No. 60 - NORMAN MAILER LBJ / P.K. ON LSD (1965) Issue No. 61 - EXPERTS AND OTHER DANGERS (1965) Issue No. 62 - CHRIST RETURNS AND SUMMERLANE TRIAL (1965) Issue No. 63 - LITTLE PLAY BY JULES FEIFFER (1965) Issue No. 63A - SUSBCRIBER-ONLY ITEM (1965) Issue No. 63B - SUSBCRIBER-ONLY ITEM (1965) Issue No. 64 - HELLS ANGELS vs BERKELEY VIETNIKS (1966) Issue No. 65 - THE FATAL SNOWBALL FIGHT ON CUMBERLAND AVE (1966) Issue No. 66 - I WAS AN ABORTIONIST FOR THE FBI (1966) Issue No. 67 - THREE AUTHORS IN SEARCH OF SADISM (1966) Issue No. 67A - SUSBCRIBER-ONLY ITEM (1965) Issue No. 68 - ANDY WARHOL'S MR STOMPANATO / THE FUGS (1966) Issue No. 69 - TIMOTHY LEARY INTERVIEWED (1966) Issue No. 70 - BIRTH CONTROL FOR THE POORD (1966) Issue No. 71 - RONALD REAGAN FOR GOVERNOR, GET TUFTS! (1966) Issue No. 72 - CYBERNETIC REVOLUTION AND THE LSD CONFERENCE (1966) Issue No. 73 - THE DEATH OF LENNY BRUCE (1967) Issue No. 74 - THE JFK/DISNEY ISSUE (1967) Issue No. 75 - THE POST-JFK ISSUE MEDIA REPORT (1967) Issue No. 76 - THE SPIRIT OF '69 by Dick Guindon (1967-68) Issue No. 77 - FINAL SOLUTIONS-VIETNAMESE QUESTION (1968) Issue No. 78 - FINAL SOLUTIONS-ASSASSINATION QUESTION (1968) Issue No. 79 - FINAL SOLUTIONS-ISRAELI QUESTION (1968) Issue No. 80 - FINAL SOLUTIONS-LATRINALIA QUESTION (1968) Issue No. 81 - THE DIGGER PAPERS (1968) Issue No. 82 - THE YIPPIES ARE GOING TO CHICAGO (1968) Issue No. 83 - MAILER McLUHAN MUGGERIDGE ON OBSCENITY (1968) Issue No. 84 - GROUPIES/ABBIE HOFFMAN'S SHIRT (1968) Issue No. 85 - THE MONTHLY ISSUES SET (December 68 - June 69) Issue No. 86 - THE HOG FARM and THE OAKLAND 7 pt 2 (1969) Issue No. 86A - SUSBCRIBER-ONLY ITEM (1965) Issue No. 86B - SUSBCRIBER-ONLY ITEM (1965) Issue No. 87 - CHARLES MANSON AND THE G.L.F. (1970) Issue No. 88 - MARTHA MITCHELL SPEED FREAK/PIGASUS WEDDED (1971) Issue No. 89 - THE LAST SUPPLEMENT WHOLE EARTH CTLG (1971) Issue No. 90 - KEN KESEY INTERVIEWED (1971) Issue No. 91 - CYNIC ROUTE, GREAT BEAST, LAST ROCK FESTIVAL (1971) Issue No. 92 A,B,C - EVERY PRODUCT IN AMERICA IS MEANINGFUL (1972) Issue No. 93 - WILL REVOLUTION SPOIL GROUCHO MARX? (1972) Issue No. 94 - CLOCKWORK ORANGE ISSUE (1972) Issue No. 95 - PREMIERE OF CONSPIRACY NEWSLETTER/TRUMAN CAPOTE (1972) Issue No. 96 A,B,C - GINSBERG ON THE ARREST OF ABBIE HOFFMAN (1973) Issue No. 97 A,B,C - THE AWFUL TRUTH ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY (1973) Issue No. 98 - LAST ISSUE OF FIRST RUN/MAE BRUSSELL/PATTY HEARST (1974) ------------------------------------ Issue No. 099 - SECOND SERIES BEGINS - JERRY GARCIA INTERVIEW (1985) Issue No. 100 - GOOFY AND DONALD/ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER (1986) Issue No. 101 - FRANKENSTEIN AND THE FETUS BOOMERS (1986) Issue No. 102 - HOW TO PASS A URINE TEST (1986) Issue No. 103 - MURDER AT THE HUMOR CONVENTION (1987) Issue No. 104 - THE HARLAN ELLISON ROAST (1987) Issue No. 105 - GREAT MOMENTS IN PUBLIC RELATIONS (1987) Issue No. 106 - GARY HART IN BED WITH JOAN RIVERS (1988) Issue No. 107 - MIGHTY MOUSE ON COKE/GUMBY ON HEROIN (1988) Issue No. 108 - WHY I VOTED FOR DUKAKIS/WHY I VOTED FOR BUSH (1989) Issue No. 109 - TRIAL OF OLIVER NORTH/and/NUDE NOSE NOW NEWS (1989) Issue No. 110 - REMEMBERING ABBIE HOFFMAN/DER FUHRER'S CAKE (1989) Issue No. 111 - THE WHORE SIDE (1990) Issue No. 112 - MANUEL NORIEGA'S SECRET DIARY (1990) Issue No. 113 - MICHAEL MOORE AND ME (1990) Issue No. 114 - WHY ANDREW DICE CLAY IS NO LENNY BRUCE (1990) Issue No. 115 - THE JACK-AND-JILL-OFF PARTIES (1991) Issue No. 116 - LYNDON LAROUCHE MEETS JIM BAKKER (1991) Issue No. 117 - ROLE OF NIXON AND BUSH IN ASSASSINATION OF JFK (1991) Issue No. 118 - PEE-WEE HERMAN BUSTED ISSUE (1991) Issue No. 119 - MURPHY BROWN HAS HER BABY! (1992) Issue No. 120 - MICHAEL JACKSON AND ABBIE HOFFMAN PERFORMANCE (1992) Issue No. 121 - BILL GAINES TRIBUTE ISSUE (1992) Issue No. 122 - CLINTON'S COCAINE CONNECTION (1993) Issue No. 123 - J EDGAR HOOVER'S PHONE SEX TRANSCRIPTS (1993) Issue No. 124 - ROSEANNE BARR'S LAST FAX (1993) Issue No. 125 - THE POST-COMMUNISM AMUSEMENT PARK (1993) Issue No. 126 - HOWARD STERN'S PRIVATE PARTS (1994) Issue No. 127 - JACK KEVORKIAN AND URINE LOVE (1994) Issue No. 128 - I WROTE JOKES FOR JOHN WAYNE BOBBIT (1994) Issue No. 129 - TERRORIST MARRIAGES CAN BE SO DIFFICULT (1994) Issue No. 130 - WHO KILLED JERRY RUBIN - CONNECTION ISSUE (1995) Issue No. 131 - NEWT GINGRICH AT THE BOHEMIAN GROVE (1995) Issue No. 132 - TERRY SOUTHERN REPRINT/TOY STORY FOR THE DISABLED (1996) Issue No. 133 - THE DON IMUS TRANSCRIPT (1996) Issue No. 134 - JERRY BROWN MEETS GORE VIDAL (1996) Issue No. 135 - PARTS LEFT OUT OF LARRY FLYNT MOVIE (1997) Issue No. 136 - ALLEN GINSBERG'S LAST LAUGH (1997) Issue No. 137 - THE DIVORCE-LAND THEME PARK (1997) Issue No. 138 - TIMOTHY LEARY'S LAST INTERVIEW (1998) Issue No. 139 - MONICA LEWINSKY AND AL GOLDSTEIN (1998) Issue No. 140 - FRANK SINATRA DEAD (1998) Issue No. 141 - MICHAEL O'DONOGHUE'S SPECIAL DEPRAVED BITS (1999) Issue No. 142 - THE SATANIC SIMPSONS (1999) Issue No. 143 - PEANUTS MEMORIAL ORGY (2000) Issue No. 144 - SUSIE BRIGHT'S BOOK TOUR DIARY (2000) Issue No. 145 - DRUG AND BEHAVIOR OFFENSES OF GEORGE W BUSH (2000) Issue No. 146 - FINAL ISSUE - OPIUM BY NORMAN ROCKWELL (2001) ------------------------------------ SUPPLEMENT No. 001 - FUCK COMMUNISM (1963) SUPPLEMENT No. 002 - PAUL KRASSNER LIES (1975) SUPPLEMENT No. 003 - ALBERT ELLIS BOOKLET (1960) SUPPLEMENT No. 004 - MY ACID TRIP WITH GROUCHO MARX (1981) SUPPLEMENT No. 005 - ONE YEAR OF EDITING THE REALIST (1959) ------------------------------------ INDEX: ABBIE HOFFMAN ARTICLES IN THE REALIST INDEX: SCIENTOLOGY ARTICLES IN THE REALIST ------------------------------------ RSS Feed Other things found on this website

All issues now available! Thanks for the memories, especially:



There's a reason they're so happy.

Over 2,900 pages of unique satire and political history.

NEW FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, 2010:

PROJECT CONCLUDES WITH HISTORY, LANGUAGE, SCIENTOLOGY, GARBAGE, GURUS, GROUCHO, GRIEVANCES. AND NORMAN ROCKWELL.

Issue No. 92 A,B,C Jan-June 1972

24 pages, click to read



"One Flew Over the Cuckoo Conference" by Robert Wolf, with "The Rolling Stone Papers" and "History as Language and Human Garbage". Issue No. 97 A,B,C Aug-Dec 1973

24 pages, click to read



Oh Boy: "The Awful Truth About Scientology", "Two More Views of the Miami Convention", and "What's Behind the 15-Year-Old Guru Maharaj Ji?"

Bonus Item:

MY ACID TRIP WITH GROUCHO MARX

24 pages, click to read



Blue Angel Press' tract version of Paul Krassner's famous essay. Also includes good ads and some Robert Crumb. Issue No. 146, Spring 2001

8 pages, click to read



FINAL ISSUE OF THE REALIST "Opium" by Norman Rockwell. With goodbyes, predictions and an exclusive final interview of Paul Krassner with himself.

February 2018 UPDATE: This site completed a raster-scan archive of every issue in 2010, but we have some recent information that improves the archive. First, there's a coffee table book from Fantagraphics called THE REALIST CARTOONS. Fantagraphics worked with the archive to make a wonderful book compiling the best comics of the full run of The Realist. It ended up great. Get a copy here.



Secondly, I'm delighted to mention the entire archive will soon be available in PDF text-searchable format. Credit to Jason Witherspoon who transfered each issue to PDF format, greatly increasing the access to information in these issues. Our THANKS to him. You'll see individual issues (starting with issue one) rolling out with a PDF option soon. I'll have the entire archive recoded to include PDFs within the year.

A NOTE: The Realist Archive began in June 2007 with the goal to put every issue of The Realist online and freely accessible to anyone. The one large problem was only 1/3 of the run could be found available anywhere (well available in some places, but at the asking price of a large truck ... Krassner himself didn't have many of the older issues). And an even larger problem being many of the existing issues were (and are) crumbling away and required extensive digital restoration; many issues were destroyed in the act of scanning brittle newsprint itself. But that was part of the project, and every page of The Realist is now viewable - including even the subscriber-only sheets. THANK YOU : Elayne Riggs (who loaned 30 issues from the second run), Jon Elliston, Jim Lippard, Michael Dooley, Irv Coats, Paul Elitzik, Mark Frauenfelder, Erika Gosser, Larry Epke, Raj Kaup, Dennis Perrin, Joey Skaggs, Laurence McGilvery, Robert Newman, Joe Sanchez, Robert Norris, Scott Marshall, Laura Bucaro, Nancy Cain, and Tim Rumford. Also, very importantly: Sara, and some guy named Paul. — Ethan Persoff November 2010.

January 2012

ADDITIONAL NOTE: One final item added to archive, entitled "One Year of Editing the Realist" (November 1959) from Lyle Stuart's THE INDEPENDENT (click for full scans)