Issue Details

Issue	#15
Published	August 1960
Cover Price	0.25 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Paul Laikin

Cover Details - "Special Poker-Faced Issue"

Characters	Sylvester P. Smythe
Genre	Humor
Pencils	John Severin (signed)
Inks	John Severin (signed)
Colors	John Severin (signed)

1 page Cracked promo (ad from the publisher) "Don't Just Be One of the Crowd"

Characters	Sylvester P. Smythe
Genre	Satire
Letters	typeset
Notes	Ads for The Cracked Reader and a Cracked t-shirt.

1 page credits "Contents"

Letters

typeset

1 page Letters letters page "Letters"

Letters

typeset

6 page story "Hollywood Life Stories ...From the Pages of History"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Reprinted	in More Cracked (Ace Books, 1961 series) #T-135

3 page story "How Family Life Would Be If the Sexes Changed Places"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	John Severin
Inks	John Severin
Reprinted	in More Cracked (Ace Books, 1961 series) #T-135

4 page story "If Literature Were Written in the Gossip Columns"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Reprinted	in More Cracked (Ace Books, 1961 series) #T-135

1 page story "Tha Banana Man"

Genre	Humor
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jerry Kirschein
Inks	Jerry Kirschein

1 page Sports Oddities story "Sports Oddities"

Characters	Arnold Hotchkiss; Sam Snerd; "Nauseous Nat" Twirley; Sidney Slofkis; Sergei Macabee
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jack Davis ?
Inks	Jack Davis ?

1 page story "The Man Who Doesn't Think for Himself Knows..."

Characters	Batman [Bruce Wayne] (cameo); Robin [Dick Grayson] (cameo)
Synopsis	Fake ad for Viceboy cigarettes.
Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	John Severin
Inks	John Severin

Half page story "Scout Bout"

Genre	Humor
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jerry Kirschein
Inks	Jerry Kirschein

Half page story "In-Law - Out-Law"

Genre	Humor
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jerry Kirschein
Inks	Jerry Kirschein

Half page story "Hazy Crazy"

Genre	Humor
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jerry Kirschein
Inks	Jerry Kirschein

2 page Shut-Ups story "Famous Proverb Shut-Ups"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	John Severin
Inks	John Severin
Notes	Six 2-panel Shut-Up gags.

2 page story "Do-It-Yourself Captions"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	John Severin
Inks	John Severin

2 page story "The Last in a Series of Great War Heroes"

Characters	Seaman Clyde V. Smythe; Janitor Sylvester P. Smythe; Corp. Joshua N. Smythe; 1st Sgt. Rufus M. Smythe; Col. Abner Z. Smythe; Sgt. Felix J. Smythe; Pvt. Maxwell T. Smythe; Capt. Jonathan R. Smythe; Minute Man Jason B. Smythe; Lt. Lemuel C. Smythe
Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jack Davis ?
Inks	Jack Davis ?

3 page activity "Cracked's Intelligence Test"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Letters	typeset

1 page story "Cracked Takes You Back to... When it all Started"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jack Davis ?
Inks	Jack Davis ?

2 page story "Cracked Headlines"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin

2 page story "How Some of Our Customs Began"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	John Severin
Inks	John Severin
Reprinted	in More Cracked (Ace Books, 1961 series) #T-135

4 page story "They Shoulda Listened"

Characters	General Custer; President Abe Lincoln; Mrs. O'Leary; Goliath; Neville
Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jack Davis ?
Inks	Jack Davis ?

3 page story "Illustrated Limericks"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jack Davis ?
Inks	Jack Davis ?

1 page Sports Oddities story "Sports Oddities"

Characters	Hank Luckeezi; "Tiger Joe Farnsworth"; Luke "Slugger" D'Ambezzi; Pancho Gumba
Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jack Davis ?
Inks	Jack Davis ?

2 page story "Nursery Rhymes"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin

1 page story "I Got My Job Through the Daily Times"

Synopsis	Fake ad for classifed ads.
Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	John Severin
Inks	John Severin

2 page story "After Smell-O-Rama What?"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	John Severin
Inks	John Severin

1 page story "Cracked Takes You Back to... When it all Started"

Genre	Satire
Script	Paul Laikin
Pencils	Jack Davis ?
Inks	Jack Davis ?

1 page Horror House advertisement "Horror House"

Genre	Horror
Pencils	John Severin
Inks	John Severin

1 page Cracked promo (ad from the publisher) "Like All the Beatniks Say: Cracked is the Most"

Genre	Satire
Pencils	Jack Davis ?
Inks	Jack Davis ?
Notes	Cracked subscription ad.

1 page story "Go Ocean"

Synopsis	Fake ad for an Ocean cruise.
Genre	Satire
Pencils	John Severin
Inks	John Severin
Notes	Back cover.