Sherlock Holmes The Strange Case of the Queen's Pupils

'Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of the Queen's Pupils'

from National Lampoon, July 1971

The issues released in the early years of National Lampoon could be hit-or-miss, but the July 1971 'Pornography' issue has some genuinely funny, and explicitly sleazy, material in its pages. There is a sharper note to the snideness, that comes through in many of the articles.

Among the more amusing entrants is a black-and-white comic, written by Charles O'Hegarty and Michael Choquette, ably illustrated by comics veteran Frank Springer. 'Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of the Queen's Pupils' is laugh-out-loud funny, and an effective satire of the British boys' boarding school motif.