Crazy Magazine #54

Marvel's self-proclaimed "Magazine That Dares to Be Dumb" is in fine form with this September 1979 issue, billed as the "Great, Big Love at First Fright Issue." Bob Larkin's painted cover sets the tone perfectly: a dramatically caped Dracula figure looms over a coffin where his intended victim is dead asleep — clutching a teddy bear, snoring away in a cascade of ZZZZs, blissfully unaware of the vampire's exasperated presence. The whole gag is topped off with Dracula's wounded speech bubble declaring "Scene Stealer!" — a pitch-perfect punchline from a magazine that knows exactly how to deflate horror with a well-timed joke.