Cracked #346

This 2000 issue of Cracked Mazagine leans hard into the summer movie season, promising a "first-ever sneaky preview" of the X-Men film with a caricature-packed cover featuring a wheelchair-bound Professor X surrounded by exaggerated likenesses of the movie's mutant cast — including a white-haired Storm, a clawed Wolverine, and several teammates in sleek black leather. The cover art, courtesy of Tom Richmond, Frank Cummings, Ed Steckley, Dick Kulpa, and Gary Fields, also teases a Bullwinkle and Rocky send-up inside (cheekily titled "Rocker and Bullwanker"), plus the promise of a full-color comic book bonus. It's a gleefully overstuffed issue that captures Cracked's irreverent spirit at a moment when superhero movies were just beginning their big-screen takeover.