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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 8, 2020 14:27:49 GMT -5
Cracked magazine was a much ,much lesser version of Mad magazine. Not even in the same league.
There I said it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 14:42:27 GMT -5
Cracked magazine was a much ,much lesser version of Mad magazine. Not even in the same league. There I said it. *insert Cracked 'shut up' here
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Post by berkley on Jun 8, 2020 14:53:16 GMT -5
Cracked magazine was a much ,much lesser version of Mad magazine. Not even in the same league. There I said it. Cracked never did anything to match the early MAD of the 50s, at least not to my knowledge - were they around then? - but by the 70s, I dunno, while I'd agree that MAD was the better magazine I don't think there was all that much difference. John Severin's artwork helped a lot, could be I'm being swayed by that and forgetting the content.
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Post by badwolf on Jun 8, 2020 14:57:09 GMT -5
Do you consider this a comic book? It looks like one until you open it.
Wizard's Daredevil 1/2 was also like a novel and after opening the cover, put it right back in the bag...haven't opened it in 20 years.
There, I said it.
Maybe not a comic, but if all the artwork is of that caliber I wouldn't mind having it. (Who is the artist anyway? Looks like...Snowman??)
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Post by impulse on Jun 8, 2020 15:46:42 GMT -5
Cracked magazine was a much ,much lesser version of Mad magazine. Not even in the same league. There I said it. I thought this a well-known factoid. That said, Cracked had a really good online presence before they went under a few years ago.
Do you consider this a comic book? It looks like one until you open it.
Wizard's Daredevil 1/2 was also like a novel and after opening the cover, put it right back in the bag...haven't opened it in 20 years. There, I said it.
Maybe not a comic, but if all the artwork is of that caliber I wouldn't mind having it. (Who is the artist anyway? Looks like...Snowman??) Oh yeah, I forgot respond on these. Not responding to you directly, but on the matter of these things that looked like a comic but were prose on the inside. At least as a kid, they always royally pissed me off as I felt it was a bait and switch. I was expecting a comic, dang it!
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Post by MDG on Jun 8, 2020 16:00:22 GMT -5
Cracked magazine was a much ,much lesser version of Mad magazine. Not even in the same league. There I said it. Cracked never did anything to match the early MAD of the 50s, at least not to my knowledge - were they around then? - but by the 70s, I dunno, while I'd agree that MAD was the better magazine I don't think there was all that much difference. John Severin's artwork helped a lot, could be I'm being swayed by that and forgetting the content. I think the problem was that Cracked always seemed like a second-tier MAD and didn't do anything to dissuade that opinion. It was when you wanted MAD but couldn't get it (or already bought it that month). It had some good stuff, but never quite at the same level or consistency as MAD.
SICK was another tier down.
The book Behaving Madly is interesting though--about the MAD imitators of the 50s-early 60s. It seemed at that time, others wanted to play in the same arena but try to be their own thing rather than strictly a "MAD copy."
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Post by brutalis on Jun 8, 2020 16:22:46 GMT -5
Never paid for an issue of Cracked or Mad back in my childhood as nearly every kid around school was buying one or the other and on any weekend I could spend all day drinking soda and reading their copies. I personally preferred MAD but Cracked had plenty of stuff in it as well, just not as memorable to me as Don Martin, Spy vs Spy or the MAD movie parodies. Would probably remember a Cracked story if I read one but really can't tell you anything that ever stuck in my head if that tells you anything about the 2 in comparison!
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 8, 2020 16:58:24 GMT -5
I liked Crazy best... they had The History Of Moosekind early on, Teen Hulk later, photo fumettis that could even guest star the Ramones, and Obnoxio The Clown insulting the readers!
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 8, 2020 17:07:21 GMT -5
Cracked magazine was a much ,much lesser version of Mad magazine. Not even in the same league. There I said it. Cracked at its best (60s-70s) used a more ironic, subtle form of humor than the MAD standards. Yes, Cracked's finest was not on an even level with the greatest period of MAD, but they still had their own comedic flair particularly with their numerous horror specials (some titled Those Cracked Monsters).
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 8, 2020 17:11:03 GMT -5
I liked Crazy best... they had The History Of Moosekind early on, Teen Hulk later, photo fumettis that could even guest star the Ramones, and Obnoxio The Clown insulting the readers! Crazy was a magazine I could not get into; I found their media satires trying too hard to prove it was not MAD...but not in a creatively challenging way. Their covers (many by the great Bob Larkin) were the best thing about the magazine.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 8, 2020 17:36:50 GMT -5
Cracked magazine was a much ,much lesser version of Mad magazine. Not even in the same league. There I said it. Cracked never did anything to match the early MAD of the 50s, at least not to my knowledge - were they around then? - but by the 70s, I dunno, while I'd agree that MAD was the better magazine I don't think there was all that much difference. John Severin's artwork helped a lot, could be I'm being swayed by that and forgetting the content. Severin and Ward were the saving grace of Cracked. The writing was not remotely on par with Mad. Cracked started in early '58, so about three years after Mad became a magazine.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 8, 2020 18:45:59 GMT -5
No love for Obnoxio.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 19:05:07 GMT -5
I liked both Cracked and Mad magazines.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 8, 2020 20:37:54 GMT -5
No love for Obnoxio. Never saw it in my area. Mad and Cracked were easy to find. Cracked was Severin and Ward, for sure; but, for me, in the 70s, Mad was mostly Sergio and Spy vs Spy; maybe Don Martin, depending on the theme. I generally didn't think much of the movie and tv parodies from either magazine, as I recall.
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Post by berkley on Jun 9, 2020 0:10:26 GMT -5
Forgot about Ward on Cracked. yeah, his art was another attraction, for sure.
I think I bought the first 5 or 6 issues of Crazy. Definitely the first one and then a handful more afterwards. It was OK. I liked seeing some of my favourite Marvel writers attempt MAD style comedy. I'd say it was inoffensive, mildly enjoyable at times, but no great shakes.
I only ever read one issue of Sick and all I remember was thinking it was really dismal. The title of the mag turned me off to being with and it went downhill from there.
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