Cracked #221

John Severin's cover sets the scene with gleeful mayhem at the "Cracked Motel," mashing up Poltergeist and Psycho as a terrified family — including a man in a "Psychotic State" shirt — flees down the steps while monsters lurk in every window, a wild creature perches on the rooftop, and the building's cheerful "Under New Management" sign suggests the haunting is very much open for business. Bats swirl overhead and Sylvester the Cracked mascot stands front and center amid the chaos, somehow unfazed by it all. With additional content promising Rock 'n' Roll, Stephen King, and Gorbachev in America, this August 1986 issue of Cracked is packed with the offbeat humor the magazine delivered so reliably throughout the decade.