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Thursday, October 29, 2020
AMERICAN RADIATORS
AMERICAN GLADIATORS
(1989-1996) SYN
AMERICAN RADIATORS
MAD #315, December 1992
w: Dick DeBartolo & Andrew J. Schwartzberg
a: Al Jaffee
Every week Mike Adamle and Larry Csonka hosted a competition with professional and amateur athletes in various events.
Al Jaffee didn't normally do TV and movie parodies, but he may have been chosen because there's a “Snappy Answer” in this. Also his trademark puking.
They didn't parody any particular athletes or events here.
Often they'd show a clip of the athlete before becoming a Gladiator, then interview them after the event.
One of the events involved battling each other inside round metal cages.
They don't pretend the show's not an excuse to show T & A.
Finally, the Gladiators are given a challenge even they can't handle.
Al Jaffee recently retired at 99 and is currently the country's oldest living cartoonist. Let's hope he makes it to 100.
SPIES AND SABOTEURS HIT THE AMERICAN GLADIATORS
Cracked #277, December 1992
w & a: Michael Ricigliano
Spies and Saboteurs was Cracked's answer to MAD's Drawn Out Dramas, the cartoons Sergio Aragones did in the margins of every issue. This was that issue's centerspread.
Page 3, panel 4: the guy in the background holding the protest sign is Sen. Jesse Helms. Among his many bigotries, he was virulently anti-gay.
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