Cracked #232

Cracked's November 1987 Pre-Fall Preview issue dives headlong into the season's hottest TV obsessions, with cover art by John Severin depicting a chaotic tangle of characters literally dangling and tumbling off a cliff — a gleefully literal take on "TV Cliff Hangers!" The cover promises parody takes on ALF, Cheers, Max Headroom, Magnum, Star Trek, David Letterman, Dragnet, and more, plus a special look at Michael J. Fox and Bill Cosby. With a Garbage Pail Kids movie poster offer thrown in for good measure, this issue captures Cracked at its most gleefully ambitious, packing as much of 1987's pop culture as possible between two covers.