(August 1974)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- seven times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1974-06-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
- Marvel Magazine Group
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Marv Wolfman (credited) (editor); Roy Thomas (credited as Roy T.) (executive editor); Tony Isabella (credited) (contributing editor); Marie Severin (credited) (art editor)
Issue Notes
Sadde-stitched with three staples instead of two.
On-sale date from house advertisement in Planet of the Apes (Marvel, 1974 series) #1, August 1974.
On-sale date from house advertisement in Planet of the Apes (Marvel, 1974 series) #1, August 1974.
Lady Queeroil
Commercials That Drive You Crazy / photo story / 1 page
- Script
- Stuart Schwartzberg
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Synopsis
- A vain woman gives a testimonial for Lady Queeroil beauty products.
Indexer Notes
Photos by Michelle Wolfman. This appears on the inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
Crazy's Who's Who / text article / 0.66 page
- Script
- Marv Wolfman
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A Few Frilly Facts
- Synopsis
- Editor Wolfman gives satirical biographies of this issue's contributors.
The Ecchorcist
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Parody of the film "The Exorcist".
Indexer Notes
In the last panel, Regan is interviewed by Johnny Carson. Other guest stars on the show are Alfred Hitchcock, comic strip character Broom-Hilda, Fred Gwynne (made up as Herman Munster), and The Exorcist author William Peter Blatty.
The Sunny Bozo 1/2 Comedy Hour; The Chair Bozo 1/2 Comedy Hour
Crazy Fractured Flicks / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Parody of the competing variety shows given to Sonny Bono and Cher after their public divorce.
Crazy's Horrifying Crazies
Crazy's Crazies / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Series of spot gags with a supernatural theme.
- Reprints
-
in Crazy Super Special (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (Summer 1975)
-
[no title indexed]
Poli-tickles / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; Jill St. John; Henry Kissinger; Spiro Agnew; Martha Mitchell; Bella Abzug
- Synopsis
- Series of three-panel gags satirizing the Nixon administration.
Pest Great-Nuts
Commercials That Drive You Crazy / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Roy Thomas; Jean Thomas
- Pencils
- Vic Martin
- Inks
- Vic Martin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Ewell Gibbons
- Synopsis
- Parody of television commercials for Post Grape-Nuts Flakes, with commercial spokesman Ewell Gibbons.
- Reprints
- in Crazy Super Special (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (Summer 1975)
-
Weeper!
Crazy Fractured Flicks / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Parody of the Woody Allen film "Sleeper".
Man, Mirth & Magic
text story / 8 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Illustrated magazine dedicated to outlining various forms of occult practices, both traditional and new age.
- Reprints
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #67 (October 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
The illustration of Mike Douglas on page 5 is by Dick Wright, and is reprinted from the "Daytime Television" story in Crazy #5.
[no title indexed]
Crazy's Craziest Radio Show / photo story / 1 page
- Script
- Marv Wolfman
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Last issue Billy and Mitchell were about to be attacked by a nine-foot gorilla wearing boxer shorts and sneakers when suddenly it stopped dancing.
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Parody of old-time radio dramas.
- Reprints
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #70 (January 1981)
-
The History of Moosekind, Part Six
History of Moosekind / text article / 4 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Satirical look at history, focusing on historical myths and supernatural occurrences.
- Reprints
Sapillon
Crazy Fractured Flicks / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Parody of the film "Papillon".
Crazy's Ultimate Game Show!
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Game show in which senior citizens compete in a question and answer quiz to win a luxury funeral.
- Reprints
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #70 (January 1981)
-
If Real People Needed To Use The Exorcist
Crazy Far-Out Fumetti / photo story / 5 pages
- Script
- Bill Skurski
- Pencils
- Michal Riverfingers (photographs)
- Inks
- Michal Riverfingers (photographs)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A woman brings her infant to a matinee showing of "The Exorcist", hoping the film will exorcise the demonic spirit possessing the child.
- Reprints
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #67 (October 1980)
-
[no title indexed]
Crazy Editorial / text article / 0.5 page
- Script
- Marv Wolfman
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Each Issue
- Synopsis
- Editor Wolfman editorializes on the problem of there being no problems left in the world to editorialize about.
Don't Be Like Poor Torquemada!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Synopsis
- A woman falls deathly ill because she missed the latest issue of Crazy Magazine.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Watergate Graffiti
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Tony Isabella
- Pencils
- Dick Wright
- Inks
- Dick Wright
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Dick Wright; typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Richard Nixon; Pat Nixon; John Mitchell; Martha Mitchell; G. Gordon Liddy; John Erlichmann; H. R. Haldeman
- Synopsis
- Parody of the movie poster for "American Graffiti", with prominent members of the Watergate Conspiracy substituted for the movie characters.
- Reprints
- in Crazy Super Special (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (Summer 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
There is a credit in the movie poster that substitutes "Wolfman Marv" (after editor Marv Wolfman) for the credit of prominent DJ Wolfman Jack. Back Cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
Lady Queeroil
Commercials That Drive You Crazy -
2.
["A Few Frilly Facts"]
Crazy's Who's Who -
3.
The Ecchorcist
-
4.
The Sunny Bozo 1/2 Comedy Hour; The Chair Bozo 1/2 Comedy Hour
Crazy Fractured Flicks -
5.
Crazy's Horrifying Crazies
Crazy's Crazies -
6.
[no title indexed]
Poli-tickles -
7.
Pest Great-Nuts
Commercials That Drive You Crazy -
8.
Weeper!
Crazy Fractured Flicks -
9.
Man, Mirth & Magic
-
10.
["Last issue Billy and Mitchell were about to be attacked by a nine-foot gorilla wearing boxer shorts and sneakers when suddenly it stopped dancing."]
Crazy's Craziest Radio Show -
11.
The History of Moosekind, Part Six
History of Moosekind -
12.
Sapillon
Crazy Fractured Flicks -
13.
Crazy's Ultimate Game Show!
-
14.
If Real People Needed To Use The Exorcist
Crazy Far-Out Fumetti -
15.
["Each Issue"]
Crazy Editorial -
16.
Don't Be Like Poor Torquemada!
-
17.
Watergate Graffiti
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Coates
- Tom de Jong
- Igor Dybzinski
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Steven Samuels
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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