QUANDARY HEAP

QUANTUM LEAP
1989-1993 NBC

QUANDARY HEAP
MAD #309, March 1992
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Angelo Torres

Premise was that Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) was a physicist who can travel through time and uses it to travel through time and change history. He doesn't always know where he'll end up and travels with the help of Al Calivacci (Dean Stockwell), a hologram only he can see, and Al's computer Ziggy.

Famous disasters throughout history are depicted in this splash panel. Counter-clockwise are the Exxon Valdez, Mt. Saint Helen, George Steinbrenner's purchase of the Yankees, the Titanic, Dukakis' election, the Hindenberg, and Three-Mile Island. “A thousand points of light” was George H.W. Bush's campaign slogan.

Zsa Zsa Gabor had hit a policeman while being stopped for traffic. Darryl Gates was head of the Los Angeles police department in one of the first national new beatings.

Bill and Ted make an appearance. As does Roger Kaputnik, Dave Berg's alter ego from MAD's The Lighter Side Of... Yet another joke about Pee-Wee Herman being caught at an adult theater (I don't remember it being that big a story. I guess it was good comedy fodder, though) in his home town of Sarasota, FL.

AQUATIC LEAP
Cracked #280, May 1993
w: Eric Goldberg & Mark Howard
a: John Severin

Apologies for the incomplete page here. You can still follow the story and the complete page will be swapped in when I get it.

On Home Improvement, Tim Allen's character was known for a he-man persona. A recurring bit was the neighbor on the other side of the fence.

Madonna's book Sex was big at the time. Jim Backus, Mr. Howell on Gilligan's Island, was also the voice of Mr. Magoo.

Spike Lee directed X, a biopic about the life of Malcolm X, and many people wore baseball caps associated with the movie.