CRAZY #13

Here are some excerpts from the October 1975 issue of Crazy.

Cover by Nick Cardy Inside front cover continued throughout the magazine. Parody of Tommy by Steve Skeates and Marie Severin Another excerpt from Gleeful Guide to Astrology. Daniel Azulay By Bruce Carlin and Lee Marrs Recurring (for two issues) parody of pulp magazines by Steve Skeates and Marie Severin. Another installment of Bob Foster's History of Moosekind If you recognize some of these names you can tell this was done in California. Next is a mostly-text piece called How To Hang Up on Your Hang-Ups by Steve Skeates, Steve Gerber, Martin Pasko, and Mary Skrenes.

Parody of the Chuck Wagon Dog Food commercials.

CRAZY #11

Let's open up another 70s time capsule in the form of Crazy #11 from June 1975

Cover by Kelly Freas 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.

Subscription ad on inside back cover. Parody of Nine Lives commercials.

CRAZY #10

Here's another issue I have of Crazy from April 1975.

Cover by Nick Cardy Here's some of the Marvel staff. Stu Schwartzberg and Vance Rodewalt parodying Death Wish The first page of Steve Gerber and Robert Graysmith's running feature Just Plain Folks After this was another Consumer Confidential from Bob Foster and Willie Ito, credited to “Oona LaGorpe”.

For a few issues Lee Marrs did a regular feature. Then another excerpt from Will Eisner's Gleeful Guide to Astrology

Street Gang Illustrated by Michael Ricigliano Installment of Bob Foster's History of Moosekind Second parody they did of Westworld, opening parody of their first one here. Another installment of their original mascot, The Nebbish, by Marv Wolfman and Marie Severin. Two probably well-meaning, but nevertheless racist TV parodies of Good Times and Chico and the Man, which were both racist in their own right.

CRAZY #3, 5 of 5

A lot of these magazines parodied X-Rated movies (though they're pretty innocuous by today's standards) if they were major studio productions, but they didn't specifically mention the premise of the films. MAD was able to parody “Midnight Cowboy” without saying outright that prostitution involved sexual intercourse.

And this parody of LAST TANGO IN PARIS mentioned the roommate element without mentioning the affair.

PLOP, 3 of 3

Here's the last of that issue of PLOP! minus the letters page and ads. Maybe in a few months when I run out of stuff, I'll post just the Basil Wolverton covers. Even if there were no content inside, the covers were worth the price alone.

Lee Marrs was an underground cartoonist best known for PUDGE, THE FAT GIRL BLIMP. Her work shows up in some mainstream comics and humor magazines now and then.








Don "Duck" Edwing was mainly a ghost writer for Don Martin and moonlighted for other humor magazines under pseudonyms. I guess because this was a comic book, he was able to use his real name in something that wasn't MAD. David Manak is also a MAD contributor and did SPY VS. SPY for a while.