Cracked
#157
(January 1979)
Major Publications,
1958 Series
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except February, April, June
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Major Magazines
- Barcode
- 0746741425401
- Editing
- Robert Sproul (credited as Robert C. Sproul) (editor, publisher); Bill Sproul (credited) (associate editor); Joe Catalano (credited) (contributing editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed)
- Inks
- John Severin (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Sylvester P. Smythe
Indexer Notes
Parody of the film 'Heaven Can Wait.'
![Cover Thumbnail for Cracked (1958 series) #157 [British edition #10]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1484/w100/1484733.jpg?209308252669276934)
Contents
table of contents / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Credits listed on this page - Writers: George Gladir, Murad Gumen, Randy Epley, Leo Daveson, Daniel Gutman, Donald Wong, Paul Hugli, Gary Tallman, Elaine Ozimok, Mehboob Hajee. Artists: John Severin, Bill Ward, Don Orehek, Warren Sattler, Howard Nostrand, Val Mayerik.
Heaven 'll Wait
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed as
SEVERIN) - Inks
- John Severin (signed as SEVERIN)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
Indexer Notes
Parody of the film 'Heaven Can Wait.'
Cracked Examines Telephone Answering Machines
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Howard Nostrand (signed as Howard Nostrand)
- Inks
- Howard Nostrand (signed as Howard Nostrand)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
-
in King-Sized Cracked (Major Publications, 1967 series) #18 (Summer 1984)
-
Bringing Nile Style to the Potomac
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Warren Sattler (signed as Warren Sattler)
- Inks
- Warren Sattler (signed as Warren Sattler)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
You Like to Live Dangerously When...
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed as LePoer)
- Inks
- John Severin (signed as LePoer)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
Cracked's I'm O.K. Test
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Howard Nostrand (signed as Howard Nostrand)
- Inks
- Howard Nostrand (signed as Howard Nostrand)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
- in King-Sized Cracked (Major Publications, 1967 series) #18 (Summer 1984)
-
[no title indexed]
Photoon / photo story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I hate my body!
- Genre
- humor
TV Contraptions We'll Soon Be Seeing
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
- in Cracked Collectors' Edition (Major Publications, 1973 series) #[40] (February 1981)
-
The Adventures of the Masked Bandito
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed as SEVERIN)
- Inks
- John Severin (signed as SEVERIN)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; western-frontier
Cracked Interviews the Apartment King
Cracked Interviews / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Nanny Dickering
[no title indexed]
Shut-Ups / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Don Orehek (signed as Don Orehek)
- Inks
- Don Orehek (signed as Don Orehek)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Whata tell you?
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
Who's Perfect?
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sylvester P. Smythe
Indexer Notes
On inside back cover.
Happy-Daze Shut-Ups
Shut-Ups / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed as Powers)
- Inks
- John Severin (signed as Powers)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
- in Cracked Collectors' Edition (Major Publications, 1973 series) #[40] (February 1981)
- in Giant Cracked (Globe Communications, 1986 series) #44 (July 1986)
-
Indexer Notes
Parody of the television series 'Happy Days.' On back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
Contents
-
2.
[no title indexed]
Lettuce from Our Readers -
3.
Heaven 'll Wait
-
4.
Family Tree Pedigree
-
5.
Cracked Examines Telephone Answering Machines
-
6.
Bringing Nile Style to the Potomac
-
7.
Snappy Insults to Stupid Statements
-
8.
The Book-a-Month Club
-
9.
You Like to Live Dangerously When...
-
10.
Still More from the Cracked Lens
The Cracked Lens -
11.
Cracked's I'm O.K. Test
-
12.
["I hate my body!"]
Photoon -
13.
TV Contraptions We'll Soon Be Seeing
-
14.
The Adventures of the Masked Bandito
-
15.
Cracked Interviews the Apartment King
Cracked Interviews -
16.
["Whata tell you?"]
Shut-Ups -
17.
Who's Perfect?
-
18.
Happy-Daze Shut-Ups
Shut-Ups
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Bill Devine
- Katy Hayhurst
- Michael Hoskin
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.