Crazy Magazine #4

Marvel's irreverent humor magazine is in fine form with this May 1974 issue, its painted cover by Kelly Freas depicting a cool, leather-jacketed figure armed with a pistol and an oversized cannon, surveying a heap of hapless, grimacing characters — one of whom waves a white flag in surrender. The headline promises "Crazy Gets Shafted," a parody of the hit TV series, alongside jabs at Richard Nixon, sports movies, mooses through history, and the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant. It's a gloriously chaotic snapshot of mid-'70s pop culture seen through Crazy Magazine's gleefully unhinged lens.