Crazy Magazine #24

Marvel's humor magazine takes aim at environmental hypocrisy with this perfectly timed 1977 "Hooray for Ecology Issue." Bob Larkin's cover painting delivers the punchline visually: a blue van plastered with "Stop Air Pollution," "Fight for Clean Air," and "Save Our Ozone" signs belches thick black exhaust directly into the face of a small, hunched pedestrian covering their ears from the van's oversized rooftop loudspeakers. It's the kind of self-defeating absurdity that "The Magazine That Dares to Be Dumb" does best, and Larkin captures it with deadpan precision.