Not Brand Echh #11

Marvel's gleefully self-deprecating humor title reaches issue #11 with a cover that asks, right up front, "Who says a comic book has to be good??" — and then delivers a wonderfully chaotic answer. Marie Severin's cover art stages a King Kong parody called "King Konk '68," with a enormous gorilla atop a city skyscraper clutching a fistful of caricatured Marvel heroes — a Thor-alike brandishing a hockey stick, an Iron Man spoof, a Captain America stand-in, and more — while Spider-Man swings in from the left, a tiny Hulk lookalike lurks at the monster's feet, and a rotund fellow in a biplane buzzes the scene muttering "Verrrrry In-ter-esting!" It's a perfectly pitched piece of self-aware silliness from 1968, with Severin's loose, expressive linework selling every absurd detail of the mayhem.