Weirdo 1981 #5 - back issue - $14.00

Fake fundraising ad

False biographical oddities about comedians in their advanced old age.

Rhyme about the perils of youth

Cautionary rhyme about spreading our bad habits elsewhere.

The Professor meets Lemurman.

The Professor rails against greed.

A rhyming rant against creationists.

Peter is introduced to other women.

The fate of wildman Ricky Dickner.

The pleasures of cycling

Humourous adaptations of old song lyrics. The songs adapted are: On the Street Where You Live, My Guy, Purple Haze and When You Go a Courtin'.

An explorer is captured by jungle amazons

Life in a Texas prison

Fake ad for a roll-back doll

Official Weirdo certificate

Letters page includes comments from Kim Deitch. Cover price rises with this issue. 1st printing: May 1982 (2.50 USD); 2nd printing: July 1982 (2.50 USD) Both printings were 10,000 copies apiece

• - Cover design resembles early issues of Mad as a Magazine.
• Weirdo Number 5 - Includes letters from Dawn Martin (Seattle, WA), Larry Adler (NY, NY), R.F. McAteer, John King (NY, NY), J.H. Szostek (Leeds, UK), Steve Replogle (Grant, CO), Big Red, Kim Deitch, Steven Dover (NY, NY), Ron Evry (Fredericksburg, VA), Ole Askholm (Brandon, Manitoba).
• Somebody Help Me! - Ad for back issues of this magazine. Accompanied by a small ad for Robert Armstrong's Couch Potato Movement newsletter, "The Tuber's Voice."
• Unsung Heroes in the History of Humour - Approximately twenty-six assorted old cartoons and gags, most of them anonymous.
• The Space Case - Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip below.
• Professor Brainard Encounters Lemurman - Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip above.
• The Hucksters - Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip below.
• A Dissertation On Creation - Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip above.
• Ricky Dickner's Manic Activity Book - Strip credited only to "Tom -n- Craig."
• She Jumped On Her Pushbike and Pedalled Away! - Photostrip adapting an old song lyric
• The Pen Is - Ad for Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories.
• Macedonio #268314 - This sequence includes the following stories and illustrations from the then-Texas prisoner: "Contoones;" "Tales from the Inside- "Cultured Criminals;" "Tales from the Inside- Shitter Time;" "The Rebellion"
• Weirdo License - back cover