Crazy Magazine #47

Marvel's humor magazine is in fine satirical form with this February 1979 issue, turning the Battlestar Galactica craze into a perfectly absurd holiday gag: a hapless figure in a suit and hat swings precariously from the hull of the Galactica on a wooden platform, holding a "Peace on Earth" wreath with a big red bow — while Vipers and enemy ships trade laser blasts in the chaos below. Bob Larkin's painted cover sells the deadpan joke beautifully, balancing explosive space-battle action with the cheerful futility of one lone caroler's seasonal goodwill mission. Inside, writer Michael Weiss and artist Murad Gümen bring their own brand of irreverence to the proceedings, making this a fine snapshot of late-'70s pop-culture parody at its most gleefully silly.