THE MILLIONEARS

THE MILLIONAIRE a/k/a IF YOU HAD A MILLION
CBS 1955-1960

THE MILLIONEARS
Cracked #7, January 1959
a: John Severin

Anthology show that began each week with Michael Anthony (Marvin Miller) introducing each show, telling the audience how he gave a million dollar check to a random stranger on behalf of John Beresford Tipton, and each week the body of the program had a different story showing what each person did with that million dollars.

The final sentence of the spoof introduction is from Dragnet.

From Endings for Old TV Shows in Cracked #11, October 1959, by Paul Laikin and Jack Davis.

THE ZILLIONAIRE
Cracked #243, March 1989
w & a: Stosh Gillespie (Daniel Clowes)

This was one of the very first venues for Clowes before Lloyd Llewelyn and Eightball, and becoming one of the biggest names in comics. He was a longtime friend of Cracked editor Mort Todd and lore has it that the publisher hated his art, but when he submitted work in later issues, he used a pen name and the publisher said nothing and didn't even realize it was the same person.

The Uggly Family was a recurring feature in Cracked in the eighties and it was obvious the staff cared more about older fare than the juvenile properties their audiences related to and tried to work them in at any opportunity.