National Lampoon Presents The Very Large Book of Comical Funnies is an American humor book, a book of comic strips that was published in 1975 in paperback as a spin-off of National Lampoon magazine.
Although it appears to be a book, in reality it was a "special issue" of the magazine and as such it was sold on newsstands.
It was not an anthology; it was a collection of original material written by the Lampoon's regular contributors especially for the book.
The "history" aspect of the book included a comic strip, a family feature, which supposedly was created in the 1950s.
Another strip was a parody of Bill Mauldin's World War II strip "Willie and Joe", called "Bill Maudlin's Billie and Moe", drawn by Warren Sattler.