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Friday, April 15, 2022
IT TAKES A CROOK
IT TAKES A THIEF
1968-1970 ABC
IT TAKES A CROOK
MAD #123, December 1968
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Mort Drucker
From MAD Mini-Vision
The premise is that Alexander Mundy (Robert Wagner), playboy thief and cat burglar, did time for his crimes and in exchange for finishing his sentence now steals on behalf of government branch S.I.A. (Secret Intelligence Agency) and reports to his boss Noah Bain (Malachi Throne). It was part of the spy craze of the late 60s.
Usually when the stars wrote in the letters column a few issues later, it was a staged picture of them holding their nose or ripping up the magazine or threatening to kill the writer or something like that. This was one of the few with the stars enjoying themselves.
THE FAKE'S A THIEF
Sick #70, September 1969
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Jack Sparling
Laugh-in would open their show with "From Beautiful Downtown Burbank..."
Caricature of Gina Lollabrigida.
“Sock it to me” was one of Laugh-In's big catchphrases.
I Am Curious (Yellow), a Swedish art film, was always used as a go-to punchline for “porno”, before porno really existed, in these magazines.
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