Cheeseface (1968/1969 1976) was a dog who featured on the famous "Death" issue of the '' National Lampoon'' magazine, released January 1973. The cover,

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ed by Ronald G. Harris, showed the dog with a gun pointed to his head, and the caption "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog". The cover was voted #7 in the Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years by the

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. In early 1976, Cheeseface was shot on the farm where he lived with his owner, Jimmy De Pierro, in East Charleston, Vermont, by an unnamed hunter. , the identity and motivation of the assailant remain unknown although the owners of Cheeseface named David Bradshaw in a lawsuit in 1976.

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