1950-1955 CBS
THE STARK CLUB
MAD #25, September 1955
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Jack Davis
The Stork Club was the most famous restaurant/nightclub in New York City from the 30s to the 60s, and basically all fictional works about showbiz from that time have a place based on it. It's most famous for a movie called The Stork Club in the 40s, but for a brief time there was a TV show of it.
It was hosted by owner Sherman Billingsley and featured him mingling eith the various celebrities there. The splash panel has all sorts of celebrities, I see Groucho Marx, Wally Cox, Fess Parker, Kirk Douglas, Liberace, Arthur Godfrey (drinking Lipton tea), Ed Sullivan...
