CRAZY #83

This is all from the February 1982 issue of Crazy \

No doubt everyone's familiar with Raiders of the Lost Ark

I'm not sure who did this, but I doubt it was somebody named “Joe King”. An obvious attempt to have readers mistake this for Don Martin.

“Animation” made from flipping the pages back and forth.

Parody of Hart to Hart

CRAZY #81

Here we go, gang, with another issue of Crazy (I'm trying to sound like the introductions to their articles) from December 1981. (Maybe I need to used deliberately misspelled clauses that are supposed to suggest an accent like “howcum” or “whyizzit”).

I remember seeing Superman II but I don't remember New York being on fire like in this Bob Larkin cover , though I'll admit I haven't seen it in about 30 years. I do remember that I've never seen garbage eat garbage before.

The inside cover usually had a wordless strip by Jack Sparling, just like my own Scene But Not Heard.

Mary Wilshire

Animation by Steve Mellor's Kinetic Kids made from flipping the pages back and forth.

From a strip called “Night of the Living Hand”. A recurring feature was the Finger Family, a fumetti with characters made from photos of hands.

Kovacs was probably a pseudonym for Dave Manak who needed to use a pen name while working for Mad at the same time. I could be wrong about that, though I know it was not Ernie Kovacs as erroneously stated by the Grand Comics Database. He was not a cartoonist and died twenty years earlier.

One of many parodies they did of M*A*S*H.

Though an important executive at DC Comics now, Mike Carlin's first work was pages for Crazy.

Don't quote me, but I think Dick Codor, who did this spoof of the Aamco commercials, may have also been an alias.

CRAZY #80

This is the 80th issue of Crazy from November 1981.

Parody of The Howling which I don't remember being a big hit when it came out.

Mary Wilshire

Two pages you would flip back and forth to make look like a cartoon.

Gary Hallgren

Art by Arnoldo Franchioni

Parody of Greatest American Hero

Parody of this ad by Marie Severin

CRAZY #78

This was the cover of the September 1981 issue of Crazy. The cover showcases their parody of Any Which Way You Can, the sequel to Every Which Way But Loose

Besides their recurring character Teen-Hulk, they introduced the character of Baby Hulk, most likely to have a trademark on both.

Here's their parody of Any Which Way You Can.

This issue introduces the character of Dirk McGurk, who writes bad book reports and school papers. It was probably created so readers would feel good about themselves, or maybe so editors could fill up pages without having to draw.

In real life this would get a D. No matter how bad a report is, no teacher I know would ever give an F to anyone that shows they actually read the book.

Mary Wilshire

Ralph Reese

Another Kinetic Kids feature with a strip on two pages that were supposed to be turned back and forth fast to simulate animation.

Sequel by Paul Kirchner to the previous article Marvel Superheroes That Didn't Make It. They used a lot of Wally Wood assistants like him and Reese in the magazine, probably because editor Larry Hama was one.

Parody of Lou Grant

I don't know if this was a parody of something. Crazy did a lot of pieces where they seemed to think child abuse was funny. Maybe a lot of contributors were abused.

The art is by Marie Severin.