Cracked
#218
(March 1986)
Globe Communications,
1985 Series
- Price
- 1.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except February, April and June
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Globe Communications Corp.
- Barcode
- 0271000625403
- Editing
- Paul Lamont (credited) (editor-in-chief); Mort Todd (credited) (associate editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Severin (credited, signed)
- Inks
- John Severin (credited, signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Sylvester P. Smythe; Rocky Balboa
[no title indexed]
Letters / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Mort Todd ?
- Pencils
- various
- Inks
- various
- Letters
- typeset
Box Office Future
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Joe Catalano (credited); Mort Todd (credited) (continuity)
- Pencils
- John Severin (credited)
- Inks
- John Severin (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Parody of the film 'Back to the Future.'
Cracked Look at Super-Zeros!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Mort Todd (credited)
- Pencils
- Tom J. Bacas (credited)
- Inks
- Tom J. Bacas (credited)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; superhero
- Reprints
Am I Normal?
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Joe Catalano (credited)
- Pencils
- Daniel Clowes (credited)
- Inks
- Daniel Clowes (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
[Magnet Robot]
Robot War / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A robot with a magnet destroys his enemies until he faces an opponent made from plastic.
- Reprints
When the World Runs Out of Water!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- George Gladir (credited)
- Pencils
- Éric Cartier (credited)
- Inks
- Éric Cartier (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
Laughing Matter
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Tom J. Bacas (credited)
- Pencils
- Daniel Clowes (credited as Herk Abner) (signed as Abner)
- Inks
- Daniel Clowes (credited as Herk Abner) (signed as Abner)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
More Celebrity Balloons
cartoon / 2 pages
- Script
- Tony Tallarico (signed)
- Pencils
- Tony Tallarico (signed)
- Inks
- Tony Tallarico (signed)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
A Real American Nut!
G.I. Joke / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Bob Fingerman (signed)
- Pencils
- Bob Fingerman (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Fingerman (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Parody of G.I. Joe. First G.I. Joke story.
[Amusement Park Pictures]
Hudd and Dini / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Vic Martin (signed as Vic Martin)
- Pencils
- Vic Martin (signed as Vic Martin)
- Inks
- Vic Martin (signed as Vic Martin)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hudd; Dini
- Synopsis
- Hudd and Dini escape into an amusement to have their picture taken as a disguise but the photographer is the prison guard.
More Cracked Is...
comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Arnoldo Franchioni (signed as Francho)
- Inks
- Arnoldo Franchioni (signed as Francho)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
Unreceveid Xmas Gifts That Could Have Changed the Course of History
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
Absolutely, Unqestionably, Positively, Undeniably, the Very, Very Last of the Cracked Lens (and if We Don't Mean It We Should Be Struck Deaaaddd)
The Cracked Lens / photo story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
The Painting
Sylvester's Corner / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Kevin Sacco (signed)
- Pencils
- Kevin Sacco (signed)
- Inks
- Kevin Sacco (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sylvester P. Smythe
- Synopsis
- Sylvester paints himself into a corner then paints himself an exit.
- Reprints
Cracked Interviews Santa Claus, the Christmas King
Cracked Interviews / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Burke (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Burke (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Nancy Dickering
Indexer Notes
Nanny Dickering gives her name as 'Nancy' in this story. The character model is nothing like Bill Ward's 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
- But, Mommy, I don't want to visit Grandma!
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
-
in Cracked Summer Special (Globe Communications, 1991 series) #1 (Summer 1991)
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Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
Contents
-
2.
[no title indexed]
Letters -
3.
Box Office Future
-
4.
Cracked Look at Super-Zeros!
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5.
Sports Strikes for '86!
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6.
Am I Normal?
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7.
[Magnet Robot]
Robot War -
8.
When the World Runs Out of Water!
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9.
Laughing Matter
-
10.
More Celebrity Balloons
-
11.
A Real American Nut!
G.I. Joke -
12.
Don't You Feel Stupid...
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13.
How Come Sylvester Gets So Much Space in Cracked...
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14.
[Amusement Park Pictures]
Hudd and Dini -
15.
More Cracked Is...
-
16.
Unreceveid Xmas Gifts That Could Have Changed the Course of History
-
17.
Absolutely, Unqestionably, Positively, Undeniably, the Very, Very Last of the Cracked Lens (and if We Don't Mean It We Should Be Struck Deaaaddd)
The Cracked Lens -
18.
The Painting
Sylvester's Corner -
19.
Christmas Joke Contest
-
20.
Cracked Interviews Santa Claus, the Christmas King
Cracked Interviews -
21.
["But, Mommy, I don't want to visit Grandma!"]
Shut-Ups -
22.
Kiss Sylvester Under the Mistletoe
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- Nick Caputo
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