Cover by Bob Larkin of the stars of The Donny and Marie Show as the couple from American Gothic.
Inside front cover.
The parody of Donny and Marie as featured on the cover, drawn by Murad Gumen.
Written by J.M. DeMatteis and drawn by Jerry Grandenetti
Art by Alan Kupperberg.
Art by David Wenzel
Gary Brodsky
Alan Hanley wrote and drew this piece. He makes references to Billy Graham, Woody Allen before he was taken seriously as a filmmaker, and Joe Namath. All of them are still alive.
Almost all are Marvel characters. It is a Marvel magazine, after all. Pictured are Ghost Rider, Marvel Girl, Thor, Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, Daredevil, Bucky, Howard the Duck, Incredible Hulk, Nick Fury, Silver Surfer, Sergeant Fury, Flash, Tawny Tiger, Conan the Barbarian, Invisible Girl, Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Spider-Man, Superman, Charlie Brown, Sub-Mariner, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Human Torch, Stan Lee, Salami Man, Batman.Yeah, I'm a geek, just not usually this kind. Someone once said I was a twig on an evolutionary branch.
This has always been my favorite superhero spoof though. I thought the idea of the Hulk taking a dump was really funny when I was nine. Maybe to a certain extent, I still do.
Michael Ricigliano explains his pen name in the book If You're Cracked, You're Happy:When I left Cracked after the one year I was the editor there, [publisher] Bob Sproul was not happy. He was upset that I was leaving. He wanted me to stay as the editor. So I left, and he told me that I couldn’t do stuff anymore. I kept submitting stuff and I made a papier-mâché dummy and I made a few years back here in town for the owner of the Colts and it got a lot of play, nationally. My 15 minutes of fame as an artist. I also had a dummy of myself called Joe the Dummy spelled Thadummi like an Italian name, so I was submitting stuff under the name Joe Thadummi!! After a while, Sproul caught on. I wasn’t very good at hiding and banished me for a few more issues until he finally let me do stuff again.
Another comics parody, this time drawn by Tony Tallarico.
References to celebrities of the time.
Another reminder this was a Marvel Magazine.
Parody of Marathon Man drawn by Walter Brogan.
Back cover of the issue.
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