Another issue of
Crazy (August 1974), another cover by
Kelly Freas.
The inside front cover was this
Lady Clairol parody from
Stu Schwartzberg and Michele Wolfman. The editorial said of her:
MICHELE WOLFMAN, CRAZY's fearsome photographer, is a master of taking sun-pictures. She buys a special piece of paper and holds it up to the sun and then puts it on whatever she wants to photograph. And, lo and behold, the image rises to the surface like...magic. Wow!
This parody of
The Exorcist by
Marv Wolfman and
Vance Rodewalt has the same name as
Mad's parody. Oh well, it's not like they got together to consult each other.
At this time, they were known for their one-page parodies. This one by
Tony Isabella and
Robert Graysmith parodies the brief time the stars of
The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour divorced and each had their own shows briefly.
Next their answer to Don Martin from John Stevens
Poli-Tickles spoofed the news and politicians of the day, here mashing up
Broom Hilda and
Bella Abzug.
Another commercial parody of
Euell Gibbons' Grape Nuts campaign from
Roy and Jean Thomas &
Vic Martin.
Another one-page movie, this time spoofing
Sleeper.
This was from their parody of the
Man, Myth, and Magic books by
Steve Gerber and
Marie Severin , who was also the art editor. The
Who's Who at the beginning explains what that entails:
As everyone knows, to edit means to cut, splice, delete, etc. What Marie does is take the finished art that one of the many CRAZY artists does and then cuts it into small pieces, deletes some of the panels, and then splices them together in no particular order.
Then they featured the recurring feature
Crazy's Craziest Radio Show and Bob Foster's
Mooses Through History, which I showed in the last
Crazy serialization.
Then a parody of
Papillon.
They had something here called
The Ultimate Quiz Show by Paul Lewis and Marie Severin, which supposedly had contestants which were about to die.
And finishing up their one-page parodies, here's
Toma.
This fumetti is by
Bill Skurski. He's written up in front:
There's BILL SKURSKI and his infamous hordes at CLOUD STUDIOS, a conglomerate of irate jugglers working out of Newark, New Jersey, who, during daylight hours, pose as the ""King Family, but at night they strip off their outer clothing and appear as the Midnight Streaker. Bill put together the mass confusion we tenderly call “Repossessed”. For those of you who want to meet Bill in person, you can't, he comes only video-taped.
Their version of the
American Graffiti poster, which was drawn by
Mad artist Mort Drucker.
by Steve Gerber and Robert Graysmith
Parody ofTowering Inferno by Stu Schwartzberg and Vance Rodewalt
Recurring feature for five issues by Gerry Conway and Vic Martin.
Innuendo later used by National Lampoon
After another Consumer Confidential credited to “Petunia Begonia” and Disaster Crazies, there's this.
The last installment of their first mascot The Nebbish fromMarv Wolfman and Marie Severin
After that is an ad for ForSale Distension University, a parody of the back-to-school ads that were familiar to comics readers, then another excerpt from Will Eisner's Gleeful Guide to Living with Astrology, then a parody of the very kinds of mens' adventure magazines their parent company published.
Second installment of Lee Marrs' feature.
A moose killing a bull reminds me of how every kid wonders how Pluto and Goofy can both be dogs. From Bob Foster's History of Moosekind
After this is a fumetti called In a Little Shanty Town by Marv Wolfman about black liberation where I can't tell what's supposed to be the joke, and something called Poetry Corner which used the same illustration every issue.
Parody of Nine Lives commercials.
