52 pages
December 2000
cover by Dick Kulpa
editor:
Dick Kulpa
art by:
John Severin, Ed Steckley, Art Bouthillier, Mike Ricigliano and others
highlights:
Skoopy-Poo meets the Blair Witch by Dick Kulpa (color)
The Girls Next Door... by Rick Parker
Haunted Home Shopping Club by Rob Orzachowski
It's The Great Punkin Churlie Braun! by Gary Fields
Desperate Times by George Eliopoulis
Ghost Story Club by Dick Kulpa
That 70's Craze! by Step Ramsay (color)
One day on the Enterprise by Dick kulpa
The State of the Music scene, last John Severin contribution (color)
Three on Ebay between $4 and $11
Condition: Very Good (no real defects)
Starting Price: $5
Buy Me Now at: $12
Cracked magazine is known as the best Mad magazine imitation out there. The saying was: "If you had finished your Mad and you didn't want to wait for the next one, you would go and buy Cracked. Not as good as Mad, but it kept you going for a while. In fact, sometimes it was just as good as Mad or even better. And most of those times was in the first 60 issues. These issues feature many very good artists, some who had worked at Mad or would go on to work there. The writing was sharp and an effort was made to do stuff that Mad didn't or do it in a different way. It was only later, when they decided that creating a weaker carbon copy of Mad was easier and just as profitable.
Notes on postage:
Postage from Europe can be a problem. I have quoted the postage for one issue at $12. You can actually have three magazines sent for $12 or five for $15. If you want to combine with my other auctions (or wait until there is more, in which case you should NOT PAY without my PERSONAL INVOICE). I can also send it as a package with track and trace, which unfortunately comes to $35 (the price has been raised from $25 last year). There is even a five kilo option for $68.