Atlas (Marvel) comics “flatters” EC’s Mad comic book by introducing their own satire comedy comic, Crazy #1 (September 1953). Most of the same shtick that’s in Mad is here: crazy antics and pop culture references (Dragnet-inspired narration of Frankenstein). The Crazy comic didn’t last long, it was later revived as a magazine, once again copying […]
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In July 1952, EC Comics debuted a new comic: Mad! Filled with anthological stories from multiple genres with a silly bent, it eventually morphed into a satire magazine, rather than comic book and became the only surviving EC comic in just a few more years. One story is horror, one is crime, one is western, […]
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Harvey Kurtzman really started to get work in the late 1940s. He had a regular 1-page comic called “Hey Look!” with a distinctive crazy style to it, as evidenced by the above picture from November 1948. I love the stark black backgrounds, they really stand out in the Patsy Walker comic. Harvey would eventually go […]
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