Crazy Magazine #69

Marvel's irreverent humor magazine keeps its promise to be "The Magazine That Dares to Be Dumb" with this December 1980 installment, boasting a cover by Bob Larkin that takes direct aim at Stanley Kubrick's then-recent horror sensation. A menacing, cigar-chomping clown in a skull-and-crossbones hat brandishes an axe while a trio of terrified figures cowers in the splintered doorway behind him — the speech bubble cheerfully announcing "In this issue we chop up The Shining!" Larkin's painted cover perfectly captures the magazine's gleeful willingness to skewer whatever was scaring audiences in 1980.