Cracked #225

From January 1987, Cracked #225 brings the magazine's signature brand of pop-culture parody to a rocky battlefield scene painted by cover artist Bill Wray. The cover depicts a muscular Schwarzenegger-style action figure brandishing a submachine gun, a Stallone-esque character firing a laser weapon, a giant pink robot looming in the background, and Cracked's own mascot Sylvester P. Smythe sitting blissfully in a lawn chair reading a magazine — completely unbothered by the chaos around him. Promising send-ups of Stallone, Schwarzenegger, G.I. Joe's Cobra ("Cobrat"), Barbie, and Jem, this issue is a gleeful time capsule of mid-'80s action heroes and toy-aisle icons all getting the Cracked treatment at once.