PLAIN HIGH DRIFTER

HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973)
dir: Clint Eastwood

PLAIN HIGH DRIFTER
Crazy #3, March 1974
w: Marv Wolfman & Steve Skeates
a: Enrique Ventura

A stranger (Clint Eastwood, hereafter referred to as "The Stranger") comes to the town of Lago and is picked on by some of the locals, and his solution is to shoot or rape them. The sheriff (Walter Barnes) likes that he's a badass and wants him to kill three outlaws who killed the town's last mayor that are coming back. He'll do it on the condition he can have anything he wants.

The Stranger gives a plan involving setting up a picnic and painting the town red (literally) so it looks like Hell, the reason for the cover gag. Making the picnic tables involves using wood from a local hotelier's barn. He kicks people out of the hotel where he's staying. The townspeople don't know what he has up his sleeve, many turn against him. The wife of the man who runs the hotel (Verna Bloom) reveals the outlaws were set up to protect the town's mining interests. The outlaws return and everybody ends up killing each other, and The Stranger leaves.

HIGH PLAINS SHIFTER
Cracked #117, July 1974
a: John Severin

The bartender is drawn as William Conrad from Cannon, who was also in that issue. Almost every one of Eastwood's lines is the title of a previous movie he was in.

Part of his getting what he wants while in town is free drinks for everyone and making diminutive resident Mordecai (Billy Curtis) the new mayor.

one of the citizens is David Carradine from Kung Fu

The warden of the prison looks like he's caricatured as John Wayne here. The people in the third panel are those who have turned against The Stranger and beat him in his sleep, but turn out to be beating a dummy. He's outside and blows up the room with a stick of dynamite. Here they're the ones with the dynamite.

Mordecai seems to have been called Kelly just so they could make a Kelly's Heroes reference. The Stranger whipping one of the outlaws in the last panel refers to Eastwood's magnum speech in Dirty Harry.

The message seems to be "Screw all y'alls"

UPDATE:

I said I'd include the second page to the Cracked parody, so I inserted it above. See if you can find the references to other Clint Eastwood movies and TV shows.