''Mucha'' was a Polish satirical magazine published in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

in the periods 1868-1939 and 1946–1952. In 1953 it was merged into another satirical one, ''

Szpilki ''Szpilki'' was a Polish satirical magazine. It was established in 1936 by a group of leftist literary people, including Eryk Lipiński, , and (chief editor).J. Łojek, J. Myśliński, W. Władyka, ''Dzieje prasy polskiej'', Warszawa 1988, p. 103, ...

''."Prasa satyryczna i humorystyczna w XIX i XX wieku"
(Retrieved 18 January 2017)"„Mucha”, czyli polskie „Charlie Hebdo” okresu przedwojennego"
(Retrieved 18 January 2017) The magazine was founded and edited by bookseller Józef Kaufman, followed by other owners. It included caricatures, jokes and humorous verses and short stories. Among its many writers, editors, and illustrators were Franciszek Kostrzewski and

Bolesław Prus Aleksander Głowacki (20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus (), was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world li ...

, however the vast majority of contributions were anonymous. The pre-1939 version was known of its right-wing, nationalistic, xenophobic topics. The level of the humor was rather low; examples: :– Doctor, please help, my wife ate too much during the holiday and now it hurts her! :– Indeed? :– No, in the belly! :- :– Mr.

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, sir, did you have happy holidays? :– They were happy for me, indeed: three cases of

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, two of insult, and three dozens of rejected

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s! :- :– Horror! Yesterday a young girl jumped from a bridge! :– Did she fall in love badly? :– No, in

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. While mucha means "

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" in Polish, actually the magazine was named after a daredevil acrobat Antoni Mucha, whose caricatures were prominent in the first issues. Scans of ''Mucha'' may be found in the searchable online library polona.pl.A scan of ''Mucha'' no. 13, 1894
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