{"id":3112,"date":"2021-01-04T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2020-12-07T09:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:36:44","slug":"550-crazy-mad-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/550-crazy-mad-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"550 &#8211; Crazy Mad Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/crazy-frank-n-stein.png\" alt=\"A panel from Crazy #1, September 1953\" class=\"wp-image-3113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/crazy-frank-n-stein.png 776w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/crazy-frank-n-stein-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/crazy-frank-n-stein-768x620.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Crazy #1, September 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Atlas (Marvel) comics &#8220;flatters&#8221; EC&#8217;s Mad comic book by introducing their own satire comedy comic, Crazy #1 (September 1953).  Most of the same shtick that&#8217;s in Mad is here:  crazy antics and pop culture references (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dragnet_(franchise)\">Dragnet<\/a>-inspired narration of Frankenstein).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Crazy comic didn&#8217;t last long, it was later revived as a magazine, once again copying Mad and adding fake ads, mascots, etc.  Crazy was basically a footnote on the page of Mad Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlas (Marvel) comics &#8220;flatters&#8221; EC&#8217;s Mad comic book by introducing their own satire comedy comic, Crazy #1 (September 1953). Most of the same shtick that&#8217;s in Mad is here: crazy antics and pop culture references (Dragnet-inspired narration of Frankenstein). The Crazy comic didn&#8217;t last long, it was later revived as a magazine, once again copying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[525,298,444,90],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-525","tag-humour","tag-mad-magazine","tag-marvel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}