KOJERK AGAIN

KOJAK
1973-1978 CBS

Got still even more Kojak parodies. I'm starting a new folder because I wouldn't have enough room for tags. I still won't have enough room here either. But I'll try.

TV detective show about Det. Theodopolus Kojak (Telly Savalas). One of the other detectives was Stavros (George Savalas).

Cover to the German edition of Cracked.

Cover to the Brazilian edition, also parodying the TV shows Coquetel de Amor and Espelho Mágico.

From Cracked #128, October 1975, art by Sururi Gumen.

From Cracked #138, December 1976, art by John Severin. His partner was Bobby Crocker (Kevin Dobson).

KOJERK
Sick #103, April 1975
w: Len Herman
a: Jerry Grandenetti

Sucking lollipops was one of his his trademarks.

His boss was Frank McNeil (Dan Frazier)

The caricatures of Boris Karloff, Jackie Gleason, Danny Thomas, Carol Channing, and Allen Funt look like they were swiped from Al Hirschfeld.

Monty Hall was host of the game show Let's Make a Deal.

A POKE IN YOUR PRIVATE EYE
International Insanity #1, July 1976
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Terry Austin, Russ Heath, Neal Adams, Carl Potts, Jack Abel, Al Milgrom

This is really a parody of the entire detective genre, similar to the piece from the Longstreet parody last month.Because it has so many detectives and the article has so many inkers, not everything can be tagged.

International Insanity was an adult humor magazine that kept changing its name. First it was Harpoon until it got a cease and desist from National Lampoon for having a similar name, then became Apple Pie, and eventually settled on this. They usually used Marvel/superhero artists for their parodies.

The detectives here, from eponymous shows unless noted otherwise, are Mike Stone from The Steets of San Francisco (Karl Malden), Frank Cannon (Robert Conrad), Baretta (Robert Blake), Pepper Anderson of Police Woman (Angie Dickinson), Columbo (Peter Falk), McCloud (Dennis Weaver), and Jim Rockford of The Rockford Files (James Garner). I probably know who the guy with glasses and the woman with the white streaks are too and they'll come to me after this is already posted and someone will tell me and I'll feel like an idiot.

Karl Malden also did commercials for American Express. Baretta had a pet cockatoo.

The curator kind of looks like Donald Sutherland but fifteen to twenty years after this was drawn.

Also one of the detective that wasn't used in the splash is Barnaby Jones (Eddie Albert).

“Who loves ya, baby?” was Telly Savalas' catchphrase.

SHIT LIST
National Screw #3, 1977

When Hustler made a big splash, Screw, previously a regional tabloid, went toe-to-toe with them briefly, publishing a slick magazine edition, using the same formula they felt they had been using for years. Screw's formula was more 80% sex, 10% satire, and 10% a soapbox for publisher Al Goldstein to air his grievances.