Wednesday, November 1, 2023

NOVEMBER UPDATES

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
dir: Elia Kazan

COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (1952)
dir: Daniel Mann

DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1951)
dir: Laszlo Benedek

COME BACK, LITTLE STREETCAR!
Panic #2, April/May 1954
w: Al Feldstein
a: Jack Davis

Combination of several plays that became dramas, particularly A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
THE BLOB (1958)
dir: Irvin Yeaworth

ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN (1958)
dir: Nathan Hertz

THE TALKING BLOB
Cracked #149, March 1978
a: John Severin

This was their parody of youth horror movies. The first use of Cracked's attempt at making the Talking Blob a recurring character. The original film also starred Steve McQueen, who's caricatured here.
Also an homage to Saturday Night Live's Land Shark sketches.
THE STAR TREK SAGA
MAD Star Trek Special, Holiday 1994
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Sergio Aragones

The cover promised a new Star Trek: Generations spoof. This must mean what they meant. All seven movies and four TV series were parodied last month, no need to go into them now.

1 comment:

  1. Going by Cracked's mastheads, the women at the end of the Talking Blob story must have been two of their editors, Elaine Ozimok and Marion Sproul (daughter of publisher Robert Sproul).

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