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Monday, December 22, 2025

The Groovy 1970's Christmas Countdown: Son O God by Neal Adams, Michel Choquette and Sean Kelly

It’s been some time since I mentioned the cheerfully blasphemous “Son-O’-God” comic strip that appeared in the National Lampoon magazine in the 1970’s. I picked up the pages shown here 6 months ago on eBay for a pretty decent price, and was waiting until Christmas to show them. In the “Lampoon” stories the “Son-O-God” is Benny Davis a nerdy young man in his late 20’s who still lives with his parents in Brooklyn. When he says “JESUS CHRIST!” he transforms into a muscular super-hero version of Jesus with a six-pack, cape, and halo, ready to do battle with Catholicism, Islam, and the Antichrist. It still surprises me that no publisher has taken on the chore of collecting all the National Lampoon comic strips (not just "Son O God") – then again maybe we are less tolerant today of anything poking fun at religion.
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9 comments:

  1. Rip JaggerDecember 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM

    Like you I am stunned these great stories are not available in a collection. There's no doubt the publication of them would raise a stink in many quarters, but that would only make them better sellers. There is that great Adams artwork, and later Frank Springer does some pretty good work as well.

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    1. McSCOTTYDecember 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM

      Hi Rip apologies for the delay in replying I had a family emergency ( now sorted). I suspect that these have not been collected due to the religious consequences . I haven't seen Frank Skinner art on this he could be a great artist at times

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    2. Rip JaggerDecember 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM

      No apologies necessary. I hope things are well now for the holidays and beyond. Have a Merry Christmas.

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  2. Colin JonesDecember 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM

    Merry Christmas, Paul, and to all your blog's readers!

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  3. McSCOTTYDecember 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM

    Have a great Christmas Colin

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  4. Steve W.December 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM

    Merry Christmas, Paul.

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  5. McSCOTTYDecember 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM

    Thanks Steve, have a great Christmas as well. I hope u got some nice pressies.

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  6. baggseyJanuary 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM

    A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Paul! A great Neal Adams choice of little-seen pages. I have the original of the Norman Mailer "Norman the Barbarian" issue of National Lampoon, plus a few digital copies of some of the other strips Adams did at that time.
    I think that Neal was starting to lean into a Mort Drucker sensibility here, as he certainly did (perhaps unconsciously) in some of those later Batman Odyssey comics from the 2010's.

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  7. McSCOTTYJanuary 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM

    Lol yes some of Neals later art did tend to vere into Drucker territory. Apologies for the delay replying , hope you and yours had a great Christmas

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