Madman Comics #9

Madman Comics #9 brings Mike Allred's self-described "world's snappiest comic magazine" to one of its more unsettling cover moments — a grasping, zombie-like figure labeled "CREEP" bursts through a men's room door, looming over a diminutive, white-suited Madman who tumbles helplessly alongside a vintage toy robot. Allred's cover art blends suburban weirdness with pulpy menace in that singular pop-art style the New York Times quote on the cover itself calls "animated by a manic, pop art delight in mass culture." With a story titled "Little Lexicon of Life Or The Tale of the Mini-Madman," this 1995 Dark Horse Legend issue promises the kind of offbeat adventure that made Madman one of the more genuinely inventive superhero books of its era.