cartoons I don't quite get 2

Often I don't get the cartoons I post and just pretend I do. Here are a bunch, a lot of which I can't figure out.

Esquire, June 1934
E. Simms Campbell

Good Humor, c.1964
Stu Schwartzberg

Playboy, January 1967

Punch October 6, 1915

Punch October 27, 1915

Real Men, August 1967

Fun House, February 1979

Hello Buddies, May 1955

Esquire, January 1934

Punch December 8, 1915

Swagger, January 1951

Playboy Poland, August 2012

Man, October 1972

CRAZY #28

Yet another issue of Crazy cover-dated August 1977

Cover by Bob Larkin of the stars of The Donny and Marie Show as the couple from American Gothic. Inside front cover. The parody of Donny and Marie as featured on the cover, drawn by Murad Gumen. Written by J.M. DeMatteis and drawn by Jerry Grandenetti Art by Alan Kupperberg. Art by David Wenzel Gary Brodsky Alan Hanley wrote and drew this piece. He makes references to Billy Graham, Woody Allen before he was taken seriously as a filmmaker, and Joe Namath. All of them are still alive. Almost all are Marvel characters. It is a Marvel magazine, after all. Pictured are Ghost Rider, Marvel Girl, Thor, Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, Daredevil, Bucky, Howard the Duck, Incredible Hulk, Nick Fury, Silver Surfer, Sergeant Fury, Flash, Tawny Tiger, Conan the Barbarian, Invisible Girl, Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Spider-Man, Superman, Charlie Brown, Sub-Mariner, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Human Torch, Stan Lee, Salami Man, Batman.

Yeah, I'm a geek, just not usually this kind. Someone once said I was a twig on an evolutionary branch. This has always been my favorite superhero spoof though. I thought the idea of the Hulk taking a dump was really funny when I was nine. Maybe to a certain extent, I still do. Michael Ricigliano explains his pen name in the book If You're Cracked, You're Happy:

When I left Cracked after the one year I was the editor there, [publisher] Bob Sproul was not happy. He was upset that I was leaving. He wanted me to stay as the editor. So I left, and he told me that I couldn’t do stuff anymore. I kept submitting stuff and I made a papier-mâché dummy and I made a few years back here in town for the owner of the Colts and it got a lot of play, nationally. My 15 minutes of fame as an artist. I also had a dummy of myself called Joe the Dummy spelled Thadummi like an Italian name, so I was submitting stuff under the name Joe Thadummi!! After a while, Sproul caught on. I wasn’t very good at hiding and banished me for a few more issues until he finally let me do stuff again. Another comics parody, this time drawn by Tony Tallarico. References to celebrities of the time. Another reminder this was a Marvel Magazine. Parody of Marathon Man drawn by Walter Brogan. Back cover of the issue.

CRAZY # 15

Marvel decided not to use the staffers of the other comics for this and recruited editor Paul Laikin (he uses the name Paul Lamont for this issue, maybe due to some other contractual obligation). Having edited Cracked and Sick and written for Mad before this, he wasn't able to afford A-list artists like he did there, as we shall soon see. Most likely he wrote most of the issues himself under various pseudonyms, since most of the articles credited to other writers are similar to the articles he wrote for other magazines and were sometimes names of relatives and anagrams of each other. Though Laikin's run is derided by many, some issues from this time are fairly valuable because of the paintings of celebrities on their covers, as we shall see in future posts.

Here are some excerpts from #15, the January 1976 issue.

They continued to use cover artist Nick Cardy.

The inside front cover had an “International Swindlers' Certificate”

There was some inventory left over from previous issues, since the first few issues of the "new" Crazy had a few articles by Marvel staffers, like this Jaws parody from Stu Schwartzberg and Marie Severin. Here's another example of the one-page "poster" fillers that were now a trademark of the magazine. Here's what was probably left over from the previous regime from Vance Rodewalt interspersed throughout. Note what looks like an editor's mark in one panel, an example of the sloppiness the magazine occasionally had because of its grueling monthly schedule needed to outdo the frequency of its competitors. Another article that was probably left over from previous editorships. Good News/Bad News was a page of jokes with clip-art written by “Frank Wail”, Most likely a Laikin pseudonym.

They continued to serialize excerpts from Will Eisner's books.

Then this. Another example of articles meant for previous issues.

The magazine now had marginal jokes similar to the one-liners on Laugh-In An artist from the earlier issues was longtime Warren editor Bill DuBay. Then the rest of Lee Marrs' Crazy Lady, and a new recurring feature of one-liners called Crazy News of the Month.

They needed to use the last of the recurring History of Moosekind The back cover had Crazy Record Labels, an example of the "fake-out" parodies they would do which you could paste over the real thing.

Next Monday: Excerpts from CRAZY #16.

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.