Here's
Crazy's usual attempt at what the next big hit movie would be in advance so that the movie would be out in time for their cover and the movie to come out simultaneously. Although the cover by
Bob Larkin parodies
The Wiz in this issue from March
1979, there's nothing about the movie inside.

Parody of the
Dewar's Scotch magazine ads.

Parody of the original
Battlestar Galactica by
Murad Gumen
Tony Tallarico
Rich Man, Poor Man was a popular TV movie, so it only makes sense the title would be exploited for this article drawn by
David Wenzel
Randy Epley, now a stand-up comic, wrote a few articles for
Crazy, though he says “I wrote mostly for
Cracked. I came to New York from Ohio during
The Summer of Sam, so that shows how old I am. I started doing stand-up and got a job writing at
Cracked doing photo-captions like I was doing through this guy Joe Catalano. For a lot of my
Crazy articles, I would do a few drawings to show what I wanted as well.”
One such thing was this parody of
'Twas the Night Before Christmas drawn by
Ron Zalme.

Parody of "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4E2JmRtLKU"
The Love Boat illustrated by
Kent Gamble.

Similar to a very ominous
New Yorker cover years ago.
Okay, confession time. I went to high school with Murad Gumen and he thought it would be hilarious to write (and draw) me into the Battlestar Galactica parody in this issue. Check it out, they meet a comic book collecting nerd named Jerry - and it sort-of looks like the 1979 version of me. I hope this clears up any mystery surrounding this odd cameo appearance.
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