Cracked #114, 2 of 3

Here's the middle part of Cracked # 114 from January 1974. The first have was posted here.

There were no bylines for writers. This was drawn by John Severin.

John Langton

Vic Martin

Don Orehek

Art by Bernard Baily

Sick #91, 3 of 3

This is the last of Sick #91 from July 1972. Here are the first two parts.

Sick often printed excerpts from “Jack Davis' unsold newspaper strip Bo Rearguard, which I've posted samples of in the past. I'm not very happy the strip roots for the South, but an excuse to have anything by Jack Davis is fine with me.

Jack Sparling

Since they didn't have the budget to have artists for movie and TV parodies like other magazines, or if a movie was already a comedy, they would usually have a “review”, like this one of The Hot Rock. (They also didn't have to come up with puns on names)

Even though the back cover was a collage, it's still signed by artist Arnoldo Franchioni.

Sick # 84, 3 of 3

The last part of Sick #84 from June 1971. The first is here and the second part is here. Sorry, no Spiro Agnew this time.

This was drawn by Arnoldo Franchioni

John Costanza

Review/parody of Ryan's Daughter

I think this article by Vic Martin was a reprint.

As was this.

Sick #84, 1 of 3

This here is the first part of Sick #84 (or as they say, volume 11, number 4) from June 1971.

First is the cover. They liked to make fun of Spiro Agnew. The contents page blurb tells us:
This months cover painting is by JACK SPARLING. The original is now hanging in the SICK office. Not the painting—the original JACK SPARLING!

Also on the contents page were more of their favorite targets: Ringo Starr, Tiny Tim, and Michael J. Pollard.

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice was always being satirized in these magazines. It's one of those 70s movies I've only seen evidence of there and I'm convinced their staff made them up.

Obligatory Ripley's Believe It or Not parody.

Text-only piece to make up for their inability to pay for much art.

John Costanza