A-Z GUIDE TO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PARODIED BY MAD, CRACKED, CRAZY, ETC. UP TO 1996. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. SPOILERS AND OTHER NON-SEQUITURS, TOO. SOMETIMES THESE THINGS HAVE WORDS OR SITUATIONS WE DON'T USE ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THEY'RE OLD.
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(Sorry, folks. Every trailer I look for is the same one. Updated ones don't count)
I'm sure everyone in the world has seen Star Wars and knows its plot. Those who don't can press “Previous Post” twice and see MAD's summary. While you're at it, you can click just once and see all of Cracked's spoofs. Here are all the rest.
STAR WARTS
Crazy #32, December 1977
w: Paul Kupperberg
a: Alan Kupperberg
Eddie Fisher was Carrie Fisher's father.
Other magazines would wait two, three, four years to reprint material. Crazy waited ...um... five months.
When you couldn't find MAD as a kid. You'd go down the line--Cracked, Crazy, Sick, then you'd get to Trash.
A LONG, LONG, TIME FROM NOW IN A GALAXY REAL CLOSE
Trash #2, June 1978
artist unknown (or maybe they just didn't want to be associated)
Covers for Kaputt, the German version of Cracked. The second one also parodies McCloud.
STAR BORES
Sick #118, December 1977
w & a: Dave Manak
The middle panel has Woody Allen disguised as the robot from Sleeper.
Yet another comparison to Star Trek.
SUPER STARS WAR
Muppet Magazine #3
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Frank Springer
(Sorry, folks. Every trailer I look for is the same one. Updated ones don't count)
Being Cracked, they were always beating properties into the ground and doing crossovers to sell copies, competing not just with MAD, but with other fan magazines. I already posted the ones they did with Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Six Million Dollar Man
I'm sure everyone here has seen the movie, so I won't get into the plot. Those who can't follow along can just click “previous post” and also see all the versions MAD did. STAR WARZ
Cracked #146, November 1977
a: O. O. Severin (John Severin)
Sally Forth was a strip of contemporary Wally Wood.
They knew there'd inevitably be a sequel, and predicted what it would be in the next issue, also drawn by Severin.
Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Kirk (William Shatner) from Star Trek's Enterprise.
And even more...
CY-THREEPIU & ARTY-DITTO: A SOUVENIR ALBUN OF THEIR VISIT TO EARTH
Cracked #148, January 1978
a: Cosa Nostrand (Howard Nostrand)
IF THE CHARACTERS OF STAR WARS APPEARED IN OTHER MOVIES AND TV SHOWS
Cracked #149, March 1978
a: Powers (John Severin)
This is what I mean by beating things into the ground and crossing them over with everything else. Though Star Wars is one of the few times they didn't do a mash-up with Happy Days.
Cracked #154, October 1978
a: Howard Nostrand
And yet another crossover article after the sequel.
EXPLOITING THE STAR WARS FIGURES TO THEIR FULLEST
Cracked #174, December 1980
a:John Severin
