any fans of CRACKED magazine in the house?

[7th_Sephiroth]

its like mad mag but the spies V Sabs instead of Spy Vs. Spy

[LostInAnomie]

1. That's the poor man's Mad magazine.

They even had the crappy janitor looking guy instead of Alfred E. Newman.

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. Sylvester P. Smythe

i read both cracked AND mad

[Seabiscuit]

3. As a Mad Magazine junkie, "Cracked" was nothing but a bad rip-off.

Compared to Mad, it really, really sucked eggs.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

5. I've never seen an issue of Cracked.

They were hard to come by.
I'd love to glance at an early issue.

[Nevernose]

7. Yeah, and "Mad" was so highbrow?

[LostInAnomie]

11. LOL

[El Fuego]

19. I kind of thought it was!

[Aristus]

4. Poor, limp, lame, pale imitation of MAD.

IMHO.

[Snap]

10. I was crazy

For all that stuff, so, yes not so great as Mad, but given a choice of Mad or Mad and Cracked, I'd try for the both. My little brother and I had to share the comic budget and agree on what we would both like to read. He constantly pulled the noocular option with my mom and would get his annual bullshit subscription to Chip 'N Dale fucking up my plan for Turok, Son of Stone, Sgt Rock, and Mad as a fairly well balanced reading program.

[Aristus]

15. I LOVED 'Turok, Son of Stone'!

I loved how all the dinosaurs had the same roar: "RUNK!"

[Snap]

16. The Copper Knife

Did they have caveman pals? My recollection is that Turok had a sidekick and they flew around on a couple of eagles, (a golden eagle "Argus", and a brown eagle) but perhaps I've got my comics confused. Turok had a knife made out of copper, quite magical in those days. Yes, RUNK! RUNK!

[Aristus]

17. Yeah, Turok's sidekick was named Andar. Don't know what

their relationship was except possibly mentor and young brave. I sorta kinda remember the mystic copper knife, but not the eagles they rode around on. I remember that the dinosaurs were presented very much in a pre-Bakker way: slow, clumsy, dull-witted, easy to run from. I wonder if they were to revive the Turok comic series if the dinosaurs would be given a post-Jurassic Park face-lift.

[Snap]

20. RUNK! RUNK! did it.

I'm in the wayback machine now. I'll need to get ahold of my little brother, he has an excellent memory for this stuff. I don't think he actually liked Chip 'N Dale or Huey Dewey and Louie, I think he just figured out at an early age that acting as if you liked crap like that was an excellent way to suck up to my mom.

[Snap]

22. Brothers of the Spear

were the ones that rode around on eagles, a really great comic. Dan-El and Natongo in the back of Tarzan comic books. Dan-El (a white guy) and Natongo (a black guy) were young tribal kings of Africa who had been robbed of their kingdoms, they swore an oath of brotherhood and had these great adventures. They are the ones with the eagles. Also a back of the comics guy was Magnus Robot Fighter.

[mac56]

6. Don Martin jumped ship from Mad to Cracked

for several years.

[solinvictus]

8. Cracked was OK...

I was actually a fan of Marvel's "Crazy" as a kid. "Mad" was OK, but I usually waited to buy the Don Martin and Sergio Aragones paperbacks.

[noshenanigans]

9. I liked Cracked,

but then again I was the only 7 year old girl who waited with baited breath for every new issue of Mad. Cracked filled the void okay, but it relied too much on simple gross-out humor for my tastes.

[MrModerate]

12. Saying MAD was better than Cracked . . .

is sort of like saying a boil is better than a chancre: it's true, but not a compelling argument.

And vaguely repulsive.

[Reverend_Smitty]

13. I haven't bought either magazine since I was 10 or 11

but I agree Cracked didn't have shit on Mad. I think the day I discovered my dad's collection of Mad magazines from the 60's and 70's in the basement of my old house was quite possibly the best day of my childhood

[the Princess]

14. I know the guy who did a lot of the cover art!

He's a Beard Brother. LOL (look in my sig line) And my unoffical big brother.

[El Fuego]

18. No, it was a cheap imitation of MAD!

[johnnie]

21. Do they still exist?

Obviously I like Mad (check avatar). Cracked had "Shut up's" which were pretty funny. I liked that magazine, but of course I liked Mad better.