Cracked #239

Cracked takes on the summer of 1988's spookiest hit with this wild "We Squeeze Beetlejuice" cover, painted by John Severin, showing the striped-suited, wild-haired ghost with the most front and center, flanked by a snake-necked creature lunging at a startled young girl in a ghost costume and a hulking zombie figure lurking behind. The chaotic energy perfectly captures Cracked's gleeful appetite for pop-culture parody, and the promise of Mike Tyson, The Wonder Years, and Don Martin content inside makes this a jam-packed humor magazine for the era. A fun snapshot of late-'80s comedy at its most gleefully irreverent.