ALIAS

ALIEN (1979)
dir: Ridley Scott

Looks like we have another royal flush (Mad, Cracked, Crazy, and Sick). Let us proceed, shall we?

MAD #212, Jan. 1980
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

The crew of the spaceship Nostromo (Noisy Roamer) awakes from their deep sleep and we are introduced to Dallas (Tom Skerritt), Lambert (Veronica Cartwright), Brett (Harry Dean Stanton), Kane (John Hurt), Ash (Ian Holm), Parker (Yaphet Kotto), and of course Ripley (Sigourney Weaver).

After waking up from their coma, they check in with the mother computer (using the same joke basis from their 2001 parody).

They receive a distress signal and land on the moon to investigate it. They discover a group of eggs.

One of the aliens has hatched from the egg and affixed itself to Kane's face and has acidic blood.

They decide Kane is okay but another alien suddenly bursts through his chest.

When Brett goes looking for the cat (who must have also been in suspended animation, which I wondered when I was nine), he is also killed by the alien, which is now loose in the ship.

The remaining crew finds Ash is a traitor who's been ordered to bring the alien back with them. He gets in a fight with Ripley and they discover he is a robot.

With only three left (plus the cat) and the alien on the loose, they have no choice but to escape. It gets Parker and Lambert before they're able to get out, leaving Ripley the only one remaining.

In Germany, they put it on the cover.


Now let's see how Cracked looked at it.

ALLIEN
Cracked #164, November 1979
a: John Severin

Their take was that Alien had too much gore and this was a guide for where it was. This was a gimmick used a few years earlier for the movie Cannibal Girls.
Repeat gag of “mother ship” being someone's actual mother.

They give away the part about Ash being a robot at the beginning.

The face-clinging...

...and its removal, then the blood acid scene

Chest-bursting, then the scene where Brett is killed looking for the cat.

Ash decapitated

Parker and Lambert are killed getting rations.


AILIN'
Crazy #59, February 1980
w: Murad Gumen
a: John Reiner

This was from something they did called Shorty Cinema Satires which also parodied Moonraker and Rocky II.

AILIEN
Sick #130, December 1979
w & a: Dave Manak

The movie alludes to the fact that there are no sounds in space with the tagline “In space, no one can hear you scream.”


Bananas had UGH-Lien which I don't have.

Spaceballs has always been my least favorite Mel Brooks film. In addition to lacking the repertory company of his previous movies, the spoof genre was starting to die out by then. Airplane! had started a different style without comedians and a deadpan delivery. What also made Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles work is that Mel Brooks and his collaborators had the tropes of monster movies and westerns embedded in their brains, having grown up on them. He was 51 when Star Wars came out. Spaceballs had one or two funny lines, but that's only because I always find something in even the worst comedies.

Why do I bring this up? Because towards the end it pays tribute to the famous chest-bursting scene from Alien using the same actor.
UPDATE:
The tagline for the movie was “In space,no one can hear you scream”. From the British edition of MAD. There was no cover art for the domestic one.

From the Norwegian edition of MAD. It says Alien singular even though it came out after the sequel, but I'm going to guess it's for the first one.

UPDATE 2:

UGH! LIEN
Bananas #31, c. 1979
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Sam Viviano