Crazy Magazine #56

Marvel's self-proclaimed "Magazine That Dares to Be Dumb" is in fine form with Crazy #56, the "All Nutty! All New! It's a Gas! Issue" from 1979. Bob Larkin's cover painting captures a wonderfully absurd scene at a full-service gas station, where a uniformed attendant cheerfully squirts something at a bespectacled fellow in a green jacket, while two roller-skating figures and a striped-shirted companion look on — plus one mysterious crouching character lurking at their feet. Inside, Murad Gümen handles writing, pencils, and inks on "The China Syndumb," promising the kind of sharp pop-culture parody that made Crazy a scrappy, irreverent staple of late-'70s humor comics.