CRACKED #33

This is the January 1964 issue of Cracked

Cover as usual by John Severin. Fake ad by Bill Ward First the letters and ads for their paperbacks, then Tarzan Goes Around the World in 80 Pictures Another Severin article Letters, We Have Letters about varsity letters. This is from the following article Celebrity Credit Card Applications Newspaper Con Tests by Bill Ward, G. I. Jr. by Severin, then another one-pager The Monster's Advertising Agency which was reprinted in Monster Howls and featured here.

From Trading Stamps Updated by Peter Wyma. From Future Film Epics A one-pager by Don Orehek called Encouragement reprinted in Monster Howls as The Dungeon.

Then a couple pages of Hurry-Ups by Severin. The inside back cover was by Bill Ward The back cover was a “Bonus” you could cut out and use as a sticker saying “THIS SIDE UP” upside-down.

. Excerpts from Cracked #35 next Wednesday.

SICK November 1963, 4 of 4

Concluded from Monday
For a while, Jack Davis was attempting to sell a newspaper strip about a soldier in the Civil War, and the unpublished strips were carried here and in HELP!. My guess is that syndicators wouldn't touch it because it was from a Southern point of view and many Northern papers wouldn't want to carry it, much like some movie theaters wouldn't show Buster Keaton's The General.


How many can you guess?



It was big news at the time about the dangers of insect repellent

I don't know who the artist is here.







This magazine came out right at the end of when it was still okay to make fun of John Kennedy. Future printings of The MAD Frontier didn't use the original cover.

SICK November 1963, 1 of 4

I should clean up some of the scans. I know I have no excuse for things like shadows and pixillation. In the past I haven't had the best scans that I should have been cleaning up with the same commitment I would one of my own cartoons. However, I like the wear and tear of old comics and magazines. I don't care much about the value, I actually prefer things like markings. Defacements are even better.

This particular issue of Sick was hard to clean up. The pages are brittle to the point where the magazine was literally falling apart while I was scanning it. When I was done there were little brown flakes everywhere. This issue didn't have artwork going to the end of the page like a lot of humor magazines, so I was able to crop the browning margins most of the time. Some I couldn't so you'll see how some of the pages are brittle.

Cover by Jack Davis



More Jack Davis art.
SICK relied more on current events than its competitors. Looking at a back issue is like seeing an episode of The Daily Show from several years ago where you'd only have what they're talking about.




art by Bob Powell.

More historical lessons:
The Profumo Affair
railroad strike

Marshal Tito
test ban talks

art by Bill Draut.


Franz Josef Strauss


Continued on Thursday

Cartoons from The Realist, part the third

I found out there's an archive of every issue of the magazine, but I'll stick to the issues I have.
All are from #66, April 1966


Avis Rent-a-Car had the campaign “We're number two and still trying harder”

more from THE REALIST

from #31, February 1962



I found this cartoon by friend of the show Bhob Stewart, one of the pioneers of comics fandom. The hand is mine. That's what you get from holding the back page on a scanner.

Mort Gerberg continues to do work for magazines like THE NEW YORKER.


These are from #66, April 1966. In addition to writing humor, Paul Krassner also ran an underground abortion referral service, which he writes about in this issue.
Falcon is Ian Falconer