Sick (1961) comic books 1961

Cover by Leo Morey. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Leo Morey, Bill Majeski, George Gregg, Dee Caruso and Bill Levine. Sometimes listed as Vol. 1 No. 6. One of the more successful MAD mimics, created by comics legend Joe Simon, featuring an array of comedic talent. Crestwood/Feature was the first of several publishers. After the death of his top animal star, Din Din Din, Jr., a Hollywood mogul seeks a way to keep the franchise going. A joke biography of Marilyn Monroe (still alive in 1961). A sitcom featuring the First Family, The Kennedys. A parody of record-club ads in comics, and a candid look at Candid Camera. Cover includes an appearance by Mad mascot Alfred E. Neuman. Beauty Expert; Twentieth Century; Woman Embezzles 2 Million from Bank; Sick Award; Hollywood Animal Stars; Hollywood Producer: The Sol Burlap Story; Fan Magazine Fans; The Marilyn Monroe Story; Academy Award Speech; Sick, Sick World; The Show That Was Too Sick for TV; The Capital Punishment Record Club; Saga of a Sick Ship; Police to Pose as Taxi Drivers; Sneaky Camera; From Sick Friends; A Career in Spying; News Headline: Spy Captured in Gotham; The Invention of the Telephone; Professor Sickmunds Calendar of Sick Events; Minute Movies. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Leo Morey. Stories and art by Don Perlin, Bob Powell, E. Morey, Howard Ostwind, Bernie Kahn, and Joe Simon. One of the more successful MAD mimics, created by comics legend Joe Simon, featuring an array of comedic talent. Crestwood/Feature was the first of several publishers. Spoofs of Playboy and TV preachers. A Marlon Brando movie fumetti. Ad spoofs, cartoons, and satires of historical figures from Gen. Custer to Adolf Hitler. Saga of Buffalo Bill; Sick-iatry; Mein-Sick; Liz Taylor Photo Pinup Page; History Lesson; TV Commercials; There's No Business Like the Snow Job Business; Sick Sick World. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Painted cover by Leo Morey. Stories and art by Don Perlin, Leo Morey, Bill Majeski, Dee Caruso and Bill Levine. Sometimes listed as Vol. 2 No. 2. One of the more successful MAD mimics, created by comics legend Joe Simon, featuring an array of comedic talent. Crestwood/Feature was the first of several publishers. Recruiting for the Army in the post-WWII, pre-Vietnam era. A review of Peyton Place and other "scandal cinema" of the 1960s. Parodies of the early Russian space program and razor ads. And a story with early art by future Marvel legend Don Perlin. Nothing Shaves Quite Like a Blade; What's My Plug; Educational TV Which Imparts Very Little Public Service; Banking Today; History Revisited; Monologue for Sick Comics in Glass Cages; Sickly Grin Ward; Recruiting for the Modern Army; Visitors' Day; Sick, Sick World; Scandalsville Revisited; People in the News: The Cosmonaut; Sick Calendar: September; Arresting Movies; Sick Newsreel Around the World; The Sick Lark Show; Housekeeper; Phone TV; The Invention of the Telephone; Professor Sickmunds Calendar of Sick Events; Minute Movies. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Bill Dixon, Bill Majeski, Dee Caruso and Bill Levine. Sometimes listed as Vol. 2 No. 3. One of the more successful MAD mimics, created by comics legend Joe Simon, featuring an array of comedic talent. Crestwood/Feature was the first of several publishers. A parody of John F. Kennedy's presidential press conferences. The life of movie legend Rudolph Valentino, Sick-style. The marriage of Pocahontas and John Smith as seen through the lens of 1960s race relations. Parodies of TV shows "Checkmate" and "What's My Line?" Back cover includes an appearance by Mad mascot Alfred E. Neuman. What's My Line?; Sick Newsreel; Sick Movie Review; The Legend of Rudolph Valentino; Baby Ann Marie Frazee; Presidential Press Conference; Sick History; British Spies; The Labor Movement; Sick, Sick World. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Painted cover by Leo Morey. Stories and art by Bill Majeski, Dee Caruso and Bill Levine. Sometimes listed as Vol. 2 No. 4. One of the more successful MAD mimics, created by comics legend Joe Simon, featuring an array of comedic talent. Crestwood/Feature was the first of several publishers. A parody of the TV show Candid Camera. A Sick look at airplane hijackings (then a new-ish phenomenon) and prison reform. A parody of King Kong. Candid Camera Conscious; Sick, Sick World; The Warden: A Monologue for Sick Comics; Sick Monologue; Sick History; Movie Review; Jack Paar's Know-It-Alls; Sick Biography: The Legend of King Kong; Sickiatry; Sick Newsreel; How to Hijack an Airplane. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.