Sick #126, 3 of 4

Excerpt from Sick. the other two excerpts are here and here.
Parody of The Love Boat drawn by Jack Sparling, who was also the editor. Guest stars chosen not because they were swiped by Mort Drucker, which MAD competitors usually did for spoofs, these seem to be traced from photographs.

Goodbye Girl spoof by Dave Manak

Kojak parody

Sick #126, 2 of 4

I posted the first part of this last week on my blog here.

This was most likely a parody of the late 70s Wonder Woman show, though I'd like to think it's this one.

Poor Arnold Drake. Creator of Doom Patrol reduced to writing things like this. The art is by editor Jack Sparling, also under-achieving.

Possibly the only time a kiddie humor magazine used footnotes.

Parody of Close Encounters of the Third Kind by David Manak.

Sick #126, 1 of 4

My guess is that this issue of Sick was all inventory. Except for the covers, every single article is a movie or TV parody and it carries on with the regular numbering system despite being thicker than other issues.

cover by Jack Sparling, who edited and did most of the material himself. He'd been a comic book and strip artist for years, so he must have desperately needed the money.

The mascot was somebody named Huckleberry Fink, but supposedly they got a cease and desist letter from MAD saying he looked too much like Alfred E. Neuman, so was given a suit of armor to hide his appearance.

Parody of the original Battlestar Galactica

Star Wars parody by Dave Manak.

If, in the late seventies someone were to ask you, “Which will still be here in 40 years, Sick or Star Wars, which would you say?

The Spy Who Loved Me parody

Sick # 112, 2 of 3

Here's the second part of Sick #112 from October 1976. The previous part is here.

We had Geraldo Rivera back then too (I think that's who that is in the first panel). He wasn't right-wing yet but he was still annoying.

Art by Murad Gumen.

Dave Manak

Nonoy Marcelo

Dick Ayers