Mad #178

Mad Magazine's October 1975 issue promises to "wreck" both Godfather II and Murder on the Orient Express in the same satirical swipe — and Jack Davis's cover delivers the collision beautifully. Two sharp-suited, caricatured figures face off on the train tracks while a locomotive bearing Alfred E. Neuman's grinning face on its boiler bears down on them, surrounded by a sprawling crowd of exaggerated caricatures packed into every corner of the frame. At just 50 cents (self-described as "CHEAP"), this is a wonderfully dense piece of comic art that gives you two pop-culture targets for the price of one.