1963-1966 ABC
BURKE'S LAW
MAD #88, July 1964
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
Series about womanizing millionaire police detective Amos Burke (Gene Barry) always pulled away by a new case. Each show's title was “Who Killed ----?”
The gist of this parody is that there were tons of guest stars and they were always of a high caliber. Here are caricatures of Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, and Gregory Peck.
The cops in the last panel are Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne from Car 54, Where Are You?. I didn't get everyone so please fill my gaps. Don't be stupid and mention people I already did or people from after 1964.
BURKE'S LAW
Sick #31, September 1964
a: George Tuska
I half-wanna say the guy between Sullivan and Miller is 1964 Chaplin but don't think that's correct...
ReplyDeletePeter Lorre is sitting next to Marlon Brando but you probably knew that...
The cop holding two guns on the ambulance looks more like William Demerest than Al Lewis but William Demarest was never on a cop show. (He did play Spencer Tracy's police chief in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World and wore a cop uniform in his scenes in the movie. I don't if that would make him "jealous" of Burke or no...)
Re: the guy between Sullivan and Miller - looking at the big comedians of the time, it could be Shelley Berman?
DeleteI changed my mind. I think it's George Gobel.
DeleteOK, this will be the last one, promise.
DeleteI downloaded the old CD-ROM Totally Mad, and according to its search function, the guy between Sullivan and Miller is supposed to be Durward Kirby. Kirby was the sidekick on Garry Moore's sketch comedy and variety show. (The only reason I've heard of him, other than Mad, is because of Rocky & Bullwinkle; he once threatened to sue Jay Ward over an innocuous joke.)
I'm not 100% certain the Totally Mad attribution is correct - Drucker had drawn Kirby a few issues prior, and that was a lot more exaggerated. But this is as close as there can be to an official ruling.
The search function also says that the blonde bombshell in that panel is Jayne Mansfield. And that's everyone accounted for, potentially - unless the woman hawking programs on the previous page turns out to be Gina Lollobrigida or something.
Here's another: the guy in front of Art Carney at the bottom of page 3 is Charles Boyer. It's easy to tell, because this is one of a handful of caricatures that Drucker nicked from Al Hirschfeld.
ReplyDeleteI got a few more. In the last panel of the story, there are a couple members of the cast of the police show Naked City. In the foreground, between Robert Stack and Broderick Crawford, is Henry Bellaver, and in the back, between Crawford and Fred Gwynne, is Horace McMahon. Also, between Lee Marvin and Stack is Victor Jory, I'm guessing because he starred in a police show called Manhunt.
DeleteOn page 2, panel 4, I think the 'first of many stars' is Sophia Loren. And in panel 6, the old woman is Margaret Rutherford.
At the bottom of page 3, I'm going to guess that the guy to the right of Laurence Olivier is a cartoony version of Gilbert Roland. In the next panel is Jack Lemmon, of course.
There's also a Hirschfeld-ish looking woman in that panel, and my guess is that it's Lynn Fontanne.
DeleteFinishing off the last panel: the guy on the left is Robert Taylor, star of a show called The Detectives. The guy next to him is obscured by Jack Webb, but I think it's Russell Thorson, who played his superior officer on the show.
DeleteAlso, I don't think the guy in front of Webb is Jack Paar. I see the resemblance, but he doesn't fit with a bunch of TV cops. My guess is that it's Darren McGavin as Mike Hammer.
Did I say "last one" yesterday? I lied, because I got another one wrong. The Hirschfeld-ish woman isn't Lynn Fontanne, it's Tallulah Bankhead.
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