Sick #122

Charlton's Sick magazine brings its twisted sense of humor to August 1978 with this wonderfully macabre cover by Jack Sparling, depicting a motley crew of monsters — including a Frankenstein-like brute, a hunched ghoul, and a cloaked figure with a raven — crowding around the magazine's diminutive robot mascot on horseback in a gloomy, bare-branched graveyard. The teaser headline promises "Plan X from Planet Nerd" alongside the lure of six bonus bumper "Sickers," hinting at the irreverent, anything-goes comedy waiting inside. Arnold Drake's writing paired with Sparling's loose, expressive linework makes this a lively snapshot of late-'70s humor magazine mayhem.