201 MIN. OF A SPACE IDIOCY

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
dir: Stanley Kubrick

William Sylvester- Dr. Heywood Floyd Poole- Gary Lockman Bowman- Keir Dullea
201 MIN. OF A SPACE IDIOCY
MAD #125, March 1969
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

Yes, it was 33 years into the future when this came out, it's now 19 years in the past. I'll just say "the present"

This was one of the first examples of product placement.

Habeus Corpus is what they call the Clavius station here.

In the movie, it's his daughter he talks to on the phone.

The names in the panel after that are comedians known for telephone routines.

Misadventure One is the Discovery One. SID 5000 is HAL 9000.

I bet like most people my age, before ever knowing anything about 2001: A Space Odyssey, I used think all the monolith/Richard Strauss references I'd see places originated with The Electric Company.

UPDATE:

2001½: A SPACE ODDITY
Sick #98, June 1974
w: Paul Laikin
a: Tony Tallarico

For some reason, this was done six years after the film's release. Probably because of either its TV airing or theatrical re-release.

The artist must have gotten the caricatures wrong and added in the caption at the last moment.

The urban legend was that the computer was named HAL because each initial was one letter off from IBM but that was only a coincidence.

In the movie, when HAL is dismantled, it deliriously sings the lyrics to Daisy Belle.