Cracked #267
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeCracked #267 (November 1991) stands as a remarkably wide-angle snapshot of American cartoon culture at one of its richest moments: the same season that Tiny Toon Adventures was airing its first full run, The Simpsons had finished its second season, and the aftershocks of Who Framed Roger Rabbit were still reshaping the animation industry. By cramming characters from Disney features, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera, newspaper comics, primetime animation, and Roger Rabbit's Toontown into a single issue, the magazine unwittingly assembled one of the broadest cross-studio cartoon rosters to appear in any one periodical up to that point. The issue also reflects Cracked's early-1990s editorial pivot — identified by TV Tropes and magazine historians alike — toward lighter, pop-culture-saturated parody rather than the sharper satirical bite of its 1970s peak, making it a useful document of how mainstream humor media processed the animation renaissance then underway.
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Cracked was founded in 1958 by Robert C. Sproul through Major Publications, Inc., deliberately modeling itself on Mad magazine's parody-and-gag format. Globe Communications — a tabloid empire built by Mike Rosenbloom after he acquired the paper Midnight in 1969 — eventually absorbed Major Publications and became Cracked's publisher through the 1980s and 1990s. By November 1991, the magazine was operating under the editorial atmosphere shaped by Mort Todd, who had taken the editor's chair in 1985 at age 23 and steered the book toward flashier pop-culture coverage; the early 1990s saw Cracked leaning heavily into cartoon-themed issues as animation's public profile surged. No issue-specific editorial credits for #267 have surfaced in publicly available databases, so individual writers and artists for this particular number remain unconfirmed.
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- Published November 1991 by Globe Communications; 53 pages as digitized by Internet Archive (uploaded December 2020).
- Informally catalogued by collectors as the 'Cracked Toons' issue — one of the most character-dense cartoon-themed numbers the magazine produced.
- Features characters from at least eight distinct studios/IP families in a single issue: Disney theatrical features, Looney Tunes/Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Simpsons, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, King Features/newspaper strips, and classic Harvey/Fleischer-era characters.
- Tiny Toon Adventures characters (Buster Bunny, Plucky Duck, Dizzy Devil, Little Beeper, Sweetie Bird) appear alongside their Looney Tunes inspirations (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner, Tasmanian Devil, Tweety) — mirroring the generational handoff that defined the 1990-91 television animation landscape.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit characters Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit, and Judge Doom appear in the same issue as the Disney classics (Snow White's seven dwarfs, Dumbo, Bambi, Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell) that populated the film's own Toontown cameos.
- Saddam Hussein appears alongside cartoon characters — a topical inclusion reflecting the Gulf War's conclusion earlier in 1991, consistent with Cracked's practice of mixing current-events targets into pop-culture parody issues.
- The issue was produced during the editorial era (post-Mort Todd, early Dick Kulpa) when Cracked had shifted toward lighter celebrity and pop-culture spoofs and introduced byline gag-nicknames keyed to each article's theme.
- Cracked #267 has no known dedicated entry in major key-issue databases (Key Collector, GoCollect); collector awareness of the issue derives primarily from its Internet Archive scan and secondary seller listings describing it as a toons-themed number.
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Reprinted in Cracked Collectors' Edition #92 (1992), Cracked Collectors' Edition #97 (1994), Cracked Blockbuster #8 (1994), Cracked Collectors' Edition #101 (1995), Cracked Summer Special #5 (1995), Super Cracked #9 (1995), Cracked Collectors' Edition #109 (1997), Cracked Collectors' Edition #118 (1999), Super Cracked #16 (1999), Cracked Collectors' Edition #125 (2000)
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