Crazy Magazine #41

Marvel's irreverent humor magazine returns with its "Big, New Music Hath Charms Issue," and the cover by Bob Larkin makes the pitch perfectly clear: a caricatured KISS — complete with full face paint, spiked costumes, platform boots, and a drum kit emblazoned with the band's name — is blasting away at full volume while a tiny figure in a cape quietly saws away on a violin at their feet. The speech bubbles ("Louder! I can still hear him!" and "Who put the glue in my bubble gum?") set the goofy tone that Crazy — "The Magazine That Dares to Be Dumb" — wears as a badge of honor. With writing by Dick Richards and art by Sam Viviano inside, this 1978 issue promises the kind of affectionate rock-and-roll ribbing that made Marvel's answer to Mad a genuine treat.