CRAZY #73: Fin Fang Foom, part 1

Crazy #73 from April 1981 was one of their “Super Special” editions that mostly featured reprints of previous issues. This one also had something called “The Fuppets” of cutouts so you can do a play of Marvel characters such as Spider-Man and Hulk performed with finger puppets.

This annual was done under a cover by Bobby London, who co-incidentally sent me a birthday greeting through Facebook as I was typing this.

A feature they'd do here and in the annuals was re-letter old comics with new dialogue, like they did with Fin Fang Foom, a monster comic by Jolly Jack Kirby and Darlin' Dick Ayers from Strange Tales #69 in April 1961.

Note how the shorts the Comics Code made them put on the monster have been changed into novelty underwear.

For contrast, here is the original story:

Part Two next Sunday.

Crazy #62

This is Crazy from 1980. Parody of Quincy.

I've said before I think most of this was written by editor Paul Laikin under various pseudonyms. Here's a byline that make me think so. The writer is “Rico Tallar”, a reversal of the syllables of frequent Crazy artist Tony Tallarico This was the last issue before Crazy's big facelift and return to the Marvel Universe. Mike Weiss, who wrote about his days with them a few weeks ago, sent me this letter about it he got after he sent his final submission (see above).