Cracked #271

Cracked magazine's 1992 Olympic send-up puts the "torch" in "torch the Olympics" — Don Martin's cover depicts a wild-eyed athlete in a stars-and-stripes outfit careening off a ski jump on a sled while triumphantly hoisting the Olympic flame, with a crowd watching the mayhem unfold below. Inside, the fun extends to parodies of the Addams Family, Star Trek, and the MTV Awards, with John Severin lending his pen to "Star Wreck The Next Degeneration." It's a gleefully chaotic snapshot of early-'90s pop culture filtered through Cracked's reliably irreverent lens.