People often ask why I have so many magazines like this. One answer is that it isn't easy considering I refuse to pay more than $5 for anything like this. The real explanation is that it's an accumulation of four decades of hoarding.
This is the first issue of
Pow from July 1966, a publication of Bob Sproul's Humor-Vision, Inc., later known as Major Magazines, part of the
Cracked family before they decided to repackage companion titles with the
Cracked name.
This was the cover by
John Severin
I don't know who all the celebrities are, but I'll attempt to identify them. I don't think some are supposed to be anyone in particular.
1)
Dr. Kildare, 2)
Ben Casey, 3)
Elvis Presley?, 4)?, 5)?, 6)
Dan Blocker, 7)
Larry Storch, 8)?, 9)
Tareyton smoker, 10)?, 11)?, 12)?, 13)?, 14)
Don Adams, 15)?, 16)
Lawrence Welk, 17)
Chet Huntley, 18)
Paul McCartney, 19)
Ringo Starr, 20)
Jackie Gleason, 21)
Jonathan Winters, 22)
David Brinkley, 23)?, 24)
Ed Sullivan, 25)?, 26)
Robert Vaughn, 27)?, 28)
Johnny Carson, 29)?, 30)?, 31)?, 32)
Ted Cassidy, 33)
David McCallum.
Inside front cover
Vic Martin
Parody of
Alfred Hitchcock Presents from
Zany in 1958.
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