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Friday, January 29, 2021
THE BLECH HOLE
THE BLACK HOLE (1979)
dir: Gary Nelson
THE BLECH HOLE
Crazy #65, August 1980
w: Paul Kupperberg
a: Bob McLeod & Klaus Janson
Captain Dan Holland (Robert Forster), Lt. Pizer (Joseph Bottoms), Dr. Durant (Anthony Perkins), Dr. Kate MacRae (Yvette Mimieux) are the crew of the starship Palomino, and about to return to Earth when they discover a black hole.
Also on the monitor, the robot VINCENT (Roddy McDowall) discovers the spaceship Cygnus, long-thought lost, which had Kate's father in the crew.
The crew minus Lt. Pizer, and including embedded journalist Harry Booth (Ernest Borgnine) investigates the Cygnus.
Everyone on the Cygnus was presumed dead, but they find commander Dr. Reinhardt (Maximillian Schell). The Palomino crew is skeptical of Reinhardt's theory that the Cygnus can fly through the black hole and are suspicious of that ship's faceless drones.
In the parody, the other side of the black hole is Disneyworld. Apt since The Black Hole was a Disney movie.
Crazy was published by Marvel, which is now part of Disney, so it comes full circle. Kind of like a black hole.
Missing from the parody is OLD BOB, voiced by Slim Pickens, an older prototype of the VINCENT robot.
There was also this ad in William Shakespeare...Movie Critic from MAD in # 224.
It looks like the Mexican edition of Mad did a parody of this movie. In Mexico, it was titled Le Abismo Negro. Issue #26 of the first Mexican edition has a cover story on the movie, which appears to have been titled Le Sadismo Negro.
It looks like the Mexican edition of Mad did a parody of this movie. In Mexico, it was titled Le Abismo Negro. Issue #26 of the first Mexican edition has a cover story on the movie, which appears to have been titled Le Sadismo Negro.
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