Crazy Magazine 1973 #4 - back issue - $4.00
Parody of Madge the Manicurist, commercial symbol for Palmolive Dish detergent.
Editor Wolfman gives satirical biographies of the issue's notable contributors.
Parody of the television version of "Shaft".
Series of satirical strips on the Nixon White House.
Collection of single panel cartoons.
First in a series of biographies of so-called least interesting people in the world.
Parody classified ads.
Parody of TV Guide.
Parody of the television show "American Sportsman".
Spotlight on notable moose through the history of Italy.
Kelly Freas takes a famous painting and flips the perspective so we can see the other side of the action.
Satire of radio dramas.
Satirical version of the life story of baseball legend Babe Ruth.
Satirical version of Joe Namath's football career.
Editor Wolfman apologizes to the various staffers he's ridiculed for being short.
Satire of Green Giant canned vegetables commercials; the denizens of the valley revolt against the Jolly Green Giant.
No issue number on cover. On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #104, March 1974.
- Mudge The Manicurist - Inside front cover. Photographs by Michelle Wolfman.
- TV Misguide - Some photos are by Michelle Wolfman, while others are vintage Hollywood publicity stills.
- Celebrity Sportsman - The host is a parody of ABC sportscaster Jim McKay.
- The Boob Rube Story - The priest on the second page is drawn to look like Bing Crosby from "Going My Way".
- The Moe Jaymouth Story - A caricature of ABC sportscaster Howard Cosell appears as a generic symbol for the press. Caricatures of Marlon Brando (as Vito Corleone), Henry Kissinger, Johnny Carson, John Wayne and actress Sandy Dennis also appear at various moments.
- The (Golly!) Greed Giant - Back cover.
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