Crazy Magazine 1973 #5 - reader copy - $4.00
0 1Parody of the movie poster for "Westworld".
Parody of Bayer Aspirin television commercials
Editor Wolfman provides satirical biographies of this issue's contributors.
Parodies of various daytime television shows. Shows parodied are The Dinah Shore Show, Dr. Joan Brothers, Jeopardy, Hollywood Squares, Calculus Explained, I Love Lucy, The CBS News, What's My Line, Let's Make A Deal, The Newlywed Game, General Hospital and The Mike Douglas Show.
News service wire photos are given humorous captions.
Parody of radio dramas.
Richard Nixon's daughter and son-in-law lead a tour of the new theme park built around highlights from Nixon's political career.
The evolution of civilization is traced, focusing on Asia.
Collection of cartoons satirizing the Nixon administration.
Parody of toy catalogs.
Biography of Norman, Oklahoma, shoe salesman Clement Harboloy.
Parody of the film "The Way We Were".
Parody of the television show "Ozzie's Girls".
Parody of the film "Billy Jack".
Parody of the television series "The Starlost".
Parody of the film "Westworld".
Editor Wolfman postulates solutions for the energy crisis.
A peasant is sentenced to be executed for missing an issue of Crazy Magazine.
Parody of Crest television ads; President Nixon's daughter interrupts a press conference to announce that she passed her dental checkup.
No issue number on cover. On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #105, April 1974.
- Buy-Our Aspirin - Photography by Vince Colletta. The pictures were retouched for humorous effect by Marie Severin. Inside front cover.
- Daytime Television - Vice-President Spiro Agnew is a guest on the Dinah Shore Show, while Henry Kissinger appears on What's My Line. The parody is interrupted on page 5 by a photo skit in which Marvel staffer Don McGregor shoots editor Marv Wolfman for Wolfman intimating in a previous issue that McGregor is short.
- - The caricature of Marv Wolfman on page 4, panel 2 was done by Marie Severin rather than Dick Wright.
- - Inside back cover.
- Crust Toothpaste - Back cover.
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