While others were trashing Nixon, CRACKED relied on gentle joshing like Nixon's appearance on “Laugh-In”. They seem to be more toward the right than other humor magazines. John Severin certainly was. It's rumored that he drew the leaflets that were dropped on Cuba before Bay of Pigs.
From #99, January 1972
From #102, August 1972
SAGA OF A SICK SHIP
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*THE WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY* (1960)
dir: George Dunning
*SAGA OF A SICK SHIP*
Sick #6, June 1961
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Wow. That Nixon piece is lazy even for Cracked. It's literally the same joke redressed several times.
ReplyDeleteWas that Water Bed article by Paul Laikin? It seems like one of his many "This Ianimate Object Reflects the Personality of Somebody Well-Known" bits.