Sick #16, 2 of 4

Here's the second part of this issue of Sick from October 1962. The last part was here.

Art here probably by Bob Powell

The contents page says of this article:

Sick Clark has just signed a four-year contract with ABC-TV. Now he's waiting for THEM to sign.

Apologies for the racism you are about to see.

This was only seventeen years after the war ended. They were either trying to push the envelope or maybe they just weren't thinking.

As an overworked blurb writer says of this:

An exclusive interview with Adolf Hitler...He's changed his name to conceal his identity—Now, he calls himself Frank Hitler.

Usually parodies of MAD were written by former disgruntled staffers. This is probably no exception. “Bob Guy” is most likely not a real person. It was also before Jack Davis had gone back to them.

My theory is sort of hinted at in this blurb:

What happens at the editorial meetings of that other humor magazine, “Field and Stream”... They discuss the writers who got away.

DAM, 2 of 2

Here's the second half of the University of Syracuse's Mad homage.

Parody of the Tennessee Williams/Elia Kazan film Baby Doll, or maybe a parody of Mad's parody of Baby Doll.

The main character in the movie is named Archie, get it?

Parody of Mary Noble, Backstage Wife, which is better known for Bob and Ray parodies of it.

The characters in the middle panel are taken directly from a Don Martin comic.

DAM, 1 of 2

This was a parody of Mad that was an issue of the University of Syracuse's humor magazine Syracusan. All college humor magazines would parody a particular magazine each year and this is what they did in 1958. This was when Mad was read by college students. Thanks to Michael Sullivan for providing copies of this.

Some were faithful to the features they parodied like the parody of the Scenes We'd Like to See or even downright tracing them like the Don Martin

Parody of The $100,000 Question

National Screw, part 2

In the porn world, it was said that Hustler was a slick rip-off of what Screw was doing with its mixture of pornography with satire. Fighting fire with fire, Screw for a while published a national, slick color version of what was essentially a local newspaper. These selections are from 1975 or 1976. I previously published some highlights here and here.

Every issue had a variation of this gag cartoon with a different caption. They used Wally Wood and many of his assistants. This was by Paul Kirchner. Screw publisher Al Goldstein was good friends with Mad's William Gaines, often appearing in each others' magazines. I have no idea who did this spoof of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman but it looks like the work of Tom Hachtman (apologies if I'm wrong). A. L. Sirois' parody of Vaughn Bode's Deadbone Erotica. Another strip probably by Paul Kirchner.