Thursday, August 17, 2023

THE $64,000 CRACKED-POT QUESTION

THE SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLAR QUESTION
CBS 1955-1958

THE $64,000 CRACKED-POT QUESTION
Cracked #1, February/March 1958
a: John Severin

The game, hosted by Hal March, was just contestants answering questions with the jackpot increasingly doubling until the prize got to $64,000. It was one of the major casualties of the fifties quiz show scandal.
THE SIXTY-FOUR MILLION DOLLAR ANSWER
Riot #4, February 1956
w: Stan Lee
a: John Severin
The IRS does carefully audit game show contestants to this day, even when they only win goods. In the last panel are Fess Parker and Jack Webb. John Severin had done a couple Tarzan parodies for MAD before this.
Revlon cosmetics was the show's sponsor.
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2 comments:

  1. Chris EkmanNovember 2, 2023 at 6:07 PM

    The Riot parody includes actress Wendy Barrie, who did the Revlon spots, and Gino Prato, one of the show's champions.

    Bob & Ray did a parody called the 64-Cent Question.

    There was another, looser spoof of the show in Lunatickle #1, called the $64,000 Quest.

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  2. Chris EkmanDecember 18, 2023 at 10:07 AM

    There were also stories about the show in Crazy, Man, Crazy v2 #1 and Cockeyed #4. And it was the subject of the cover of Madhouse v2 #1, though they didn't do a story on it (because they were just reprinting stories from Bughouse and the first run of Madhouse).

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