Crazy Magazine
#85
(April 1982)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.25 USD
- Pages
- 84
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-02-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
A Marvel Magazine [Spider-Man]
- Barcode
- 0714860290404
- Editing
- Larry Hama (editor); Christopher Priest (managing editor); Marie Severin (art director); Joe Albelo (production); Marvin M. Mallard (cartoon editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #8.
[no title indexed]
Obnoxio / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bob Larkin (painting)
- Inks
- Bob Larkin (painting)
- Colors
- Bob Larkin (painting)
- Letters
- Marian Stensgard
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Obnoxio the Clown
[Pestered Everywhere]
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Sparling (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Sparling (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Sparling (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man is bedeviled by nature no matter where he goes.
Indexer Notes
On inside front cover.
In This Issue
table of contents / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ralph Reese (illustration)
- Inks
- Ralph Reese (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
Take a Letter to Crazy / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Larry Hama
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
Escape from Fun City
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
Indexer Notes
Parody of the motion picture 'Escape from New York.'
Deliverance
Crazy Gross Encounters / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bobby London (signed)
- Pencils
- Bobby London (signed)
- Inks
- Bobby London (signed)
- Letters
- Bobby London
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Synopsis
- A bird hatches from its egg and emerges from its mother's mouth.
[no title indexed]
Teen Hulk / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley)
- Pencils
- Bob McLeod
- Inks
- Bob McLeod
- Letters
- Bob McLeod
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look, Chester, you wanna be a nerd all yer life...
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
The Scandalous Fantasy... and the Scuzzy Reality
Fantasy vs. Reality / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A teenager imagines himself as a prisoner on trial when he's actualy being grounded by his parents.
[no title indexed]
Obnoxio the Clown Fun Pages / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How to snore correctly
- Genre
- humor
The Blemish
Crazy Gross Encounters / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bobby London (signed)
- Pencils
- Bobby London (signed)
- Inks
- Bobby London (signed)
- Letters
- Bobby London
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man puts on zit remover; it removes his head.
[no title indexed]
Aunty Nuke / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Aunty Nuke!
- Genre
- humor
The Mundane Reality and... the Momentous Fantasy
Fantasy vs. Reality / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A student who is supposed to be studying microbes under a slide instead imagines a tiny prison.
[Stevie Nix with Tom Sweaty and the Heartachers]
The Eleventh Hour Special / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
Shark!
Crazy Gross Encounters / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bobby London (signed)
- Pencils
- Bobby London (signed)
- Inks
- Bobby London (signed)
- Letters
- Bobby London
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A shark swallows a woman but spits her out again almost immediately.
Surtur the Tenant
Tales of Housing / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (original plot); Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley) (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- George Roussos
- Letters
- Squid
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural; satire-parody
- Characters
- Charlie Surtur; Lefty the Large Realtor; Condor Brothers
- Synopsis
- Charlie Surtur is through with his lease but Lefty the Large Realtor wants to sell him on a new home - the planet Earth.
- Reprints
-
from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #99 (December 1963) [completely relettered]
-
Spy-Squasher and the Fiend with the Glass Nose
Stupid Stories Illustrated / text story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Parody of detective pulp magazines.
- Reprints
- from Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (August 1975)
-
The Upseidown Adventure
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Parody of the film "The Poseidon Adventure".
- Reprints
- from Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (October 1973)
-
[no title indexed]
photo story / 1 page
- Script
- Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley)
- Pencils
- Eliot R. Brown (photographs)
- Inks
- Eliot R. Brown (photographs)
- Letters
- Marian Stensgard
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The following is a public service announcement from Dr. Jiveturkey...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dr. Jiveturkey [Christopher Priest]
- Synopsis
- Dr. Jiveturkey warns readers they may find the next story in Crazy offensive.
- Reprints
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #91 (October 1982)
-
Indexer Notes
Priest has noted on his website that Larry Hama requested this page in anticipation of protests about 'The Brownstones' story but they received "no more hate mail than we got every month anyway."
Photography credits from http://digitalpriest.com/legacy/comics/chips.html
The Brownstones
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Fred Brownstone; Wilma Brownstone; Barney; Herb Snobgravel; Mr. Granitestein; Marv
- Synopsis
- Fred's bad luck seems to change when he gets to appear as a contestant on the Soul Feud game show. He wins a Caddyrock convertible, $1,000 in food stamps and a year's supply of watermelon, but the IRS audit Fred and throw him in prison for taxes on watermelon.
Indexer Notes
Parody of the animated program 'The Flintstones.' Priest has said on his website he created this story to mock how "white" the Flintstones were by demonstrating how they would appear as TV-style stereotypical black family. The perceived inflammatory nature of this sequence is likely why no credits were published; Priest's script credit from his website.
Seizedsum Street
Crazy T.V. Parody / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
Indexer Notes
Parody of the television program 'Sesame Street.'
Mudge the Manicurist
Commercials That Drive You Crazy / photo story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Michele Wolfman (photographs)
- Inks
- Michele Wolfman (photographs)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Mudge (photo of Marie Severin); Mrs. Grousenagel
- Synopsis
- Parody of Madge the Manicurist, commercial symbol for Palmolive Dish detergent.
- Reprints
- from Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (May 1974)
-
[no title indexed]
Michael Carlin's Page o' Stuff / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's a pip!
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
On inside back cover.
Commercials That Drive You Crazy No. 41
Commercials That Drive You Crazy / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Charlie; Mr. Yung
- Synopsis
- Charlie is always on edge so Mr. Yung suggests he try Sinka caffeine-free coffee. Charlie goes through caffeine withdrawl and murders his family, then himself.
Indexer Notes
On back cover.
Parody of Sanka coffee commercials.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Obnoxio -
1.
[Pestered Everywhere]
-
2.
In This Issue
-
3.
[no title indexed]
Take a Letter to Crazy -
4.
Escape from Fun City
-
5.
Deliverance
Crazy Gross Encounters -
6.
["Look, Chester, you wanna be a nerd all yer life..."]
Teen Hulk -
7.
The Scandalous Fantasy... and the Scuzzy Reality
Fantasy vs. Reality -
8.
Dirk McGirk's Science Report
Dirk McGirk -
9.
["How to snore correctly"]
Obnoxio the Clown Fun Pages -
10.
The Blemish
Crazy Gross Encounters -
11.
["Aunty Nuke!"]
Aunty Nuke -
12.
The Mundane Reality and... the Momentous Fantasy
Fantasy vs. Reality -
13.
[Stevie Nix with Tom Sweaty and the Heartachers]
The Eleventh Hour Special -
14.
Shark!
Crazy Gross Encounters -
15.
The Kinetic Kids versus Everybody
The Kinetic Kids -
16.
Surtur the Tenant
Tales of Housing -
17.
Spy-Squasher and the Fiend with the Glass Nose
Stupid Stories Illustrated -
18.
Crazy Looks at a Used Car Lot
-
19.
The Upseidown Adventure
-
20.
["The following is a public service announcement from Dr. Jiveturkey..."]
-
21.
The Brownstones
-
22.
Seizedsum Street
Crazy T.V. Parody -
23.
Is Someone Reading You This Ad?
-
24.
The Official Boy Sprout Handbook the City Edition
-
25.
Mudge the Manicurist
Commercials That Drive You Crazy -
26.
Why Hang Around?!?
Crazy Magazine -
27.
["It's a pip!"]
Michael Carlin's Page o' Stuff -
28.
Commercials That Drive You Crazy No. 41
Commercials That Drive You Crazy
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- Katie
- Steve Coates
- Michael Hoskin
- Jim Stangas
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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