Crazy Magazine #28

Marvel's humor magazine "The Magazine That Dares to Be Dumb" is in fine satirical form with this August 1977 issue, featuring cover art by Bob Larkin that riffs on Grant Wood's American Gothic — a grinning young woman with a bob haircut and cameo brooch stands beside a dark-haired young man holding a guitar, both flashing the kind of radiant, unflinching smiles that fit perfectly with the cover's deadpan plea to "Support National Simple Smile Week." Inside, J. Marc DeMatteis and Tony Tallarico take aim at pop stardom with "Darny & Merrie," promising the brand of cheerful absurdity that made Crazy a worthy companion to any humor rack in 1977.