WHERE VULTURES FARE

WHERE EAGLES DARE (1968)
dir: Brian G. Hutton

Angelo Torres' first work for MAD. One of a few comic artists that started out as a horror and sciece-fiction guy, a contemporary of Al Williamson, but ended up in humor because he couldn't find much work in the other genres since they were basically killed by the comics code.

WHERE VULTURES FARE
MAD #130, October 1969
w: Larry Siegel
a: Angelo Torres

In the winter of 1943-44, MI6 officers Colonel Turner (Patrick Wymark) and Admiral Rolland (Michael Hordern) assign Major John Smith (Richard Burton), five other commandos of the Special Operations Executive, and U.S. Army Ranger Lieutenant Morris Schaffer (Clint Eastwood) of the OSS to rescue U.S. Army Brigadier General George Carnaby (Robert Beatty), a chief planner for the Western Front. Carnaby was captured by the Germans and taken to the Schloß Adler, a mountaintop fortress in the Bavarian alpine village of Werfen, which is accessible only by cable car.

Disguised as German troops, Smith and his team are to parachute in, infiltrate the castle, and rescue General Carnaby before the Germans can interrogate him. After a Ju 52 transport plane drops the team into Germany, agent Mary Ellison (Mary Ure) is dropped separately in secret, her presence known only to Smith.

Anthony Quinn of The Guns of Navarone and Jim Brown of The Dirty Dozen appear in the first panel, and their movies are named, in case you didn't get that.

WHERE EAGLES BARE
Sick #71, November 1969
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Bill Robinson

Terry-Thomas, who played the commande=ing British officer in many WWII comedies, is in the corner of the bottom panel.

Clint Eadtwood is drawn as The Man with No Name from his spaghetti westerns. A Guns of Navarone reference is made here too with a caricature of David Niven.

Burton's real-life wife Elizabeth Taylor is portrayed here.

SPREE IN THE ATTIC

THREE IN THE ATTIC (1968)
dir: Richard Wilson

SPREE IN THE ATTIC
Sick #70, September 1969
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Bill Robinson

Yet another Sick parody of a movie that wasn't particularly a big hit even then, and where they may not have seen the movie. Either that or they didn't take good notes.

Paxton Quigley (Christopher Jones) is a womanizing fraternity brother at Willard College, and settles down with Tobey Clinton (Yvette Mimieux), a student at nearby Fulton College, who he meets at a party.

On his way to meet Tobey, one day Paxton meets Eulice (Judy Pace) and begins an affair with her, and she paints him in the nude. He later meets Jan (Maggie Thrett), a Jewish hippie artist, in the woods and has an affair with her as well. She's also an artist who paints (on) him in the nude and he gets her to sleep with him by saying he's gay and she can cure him of his homosexuality (it was the sixties and I'm just the messenger).

”You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's” was a slogan from Levy's rye bread with ads that had photos of various known ethnic stereotypes eating sandwiches.

Paxton takes all the girls to a “no-tell” motel on different nights and works out a schedule with his fraternity brothers which nights he'll see which women.

The parents (Eve McVeigh, Richard Derr) are actually Tobey's and they appear at the beginning scolding her for shacking up with Paxton. There's nothing about him and the administration of his school.

When Paxton goes to meet Tobey up to her dorm, she takes him to the attic where the other two women are. They've met and found he's been seeing them all and lock him up in the attic to teach him a lesson.

There's a student in the dorm who reports suspicious goings-on there to the dean, who doesn't believe her. Later, when Paxton is reported missing, she puts the two things together. These things aren't included in the parody. Tobey and the women are brought to the that same dean of their school (who isn't Racquel Welch), who won't punish anyone and is willing to pretend this never happened because the school doesn't need the bad publicity. Nobody's parents are there.

THE ODDGENT

THE SERGEANT (1968)
dir: John Flynn

THE ODDGENT
Sick #68, June 1969
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Bill Robinson

Another movie parodied by Sick which came and went at the box office. I can't figure out why they chose this except so they could make sure they'd parody something that wasn't parodied by MAD. It didn't have stars they could swipe from other caricatures. Maybe they just wanted to make gay jokes.

The movie is about Sergeant Callan (Rod Steiger), a war veteran assigned to a post in France that falls for Private Swanson (John Phulip Law), who he comes on to in the way closeted men could awkwardly express themselves, scaring off his fiance, and shooting himself not being able to get what he wants.

THE DONKEES

THE MONKEES
1966-1968 NBC

THE DONKEES
Cracked #230, September 1987
w: Charles Hall
a: John Severin

The Monkees, a 60s boy band gone rogue, were Michael Nesmith, Davey Jones, Mickey Dolenz, and Peter Tork.

Julie Newmar, most known for her role as Catwoman, was in one episode (see below). The song being parodied here is 'Daydream Believer'.

There was an attempt at bringing them back with a new cast. The New Monkees (see also below) didn't last as long.

Nesmith's mother was the inventot of Liquid Paper.

THE MONKEEYS
Sick #63, November 1968
w: Calvin Castine
a: Bill Robinson

Monkees head writers Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso (who also wrote for Get Smart) also wrote for Sick.

'Last Train to Clarksville'. 'I'm Not Your Stepping Stone', 'I'm a Believer', and 'Pleasant Valley Sunday' were Monkees songs.

MAD artist Jack Davis did ads for the show for TV Guide.

As well as the cover for a cash-in book.

The Ben Stiller Show parodied them, updating them for the grunge scene of the nineties.

ODD SQUAD

MOD SQUAD
1968-1973 ABC

ODD SQUAD
MAD #127. June 1969
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

The premise of this show was that three runaway youths, Pete Cochran (Michael Cole), Linc Hayes (Clarence Williams III), and Julie Barnes (Peggy Lipton), were taken under the wing of Capt. Adam Greer (Tige Andrews). They were arrested for various offenses and Andrews let them serve their time by being undercover cops.

This was Jack Rickard's marker rough for that cover.

From Talking Animals Take Over TV in Cracked #91, March 1971. Art by John Severin.

CLOD SQUAD
Sick #66, March 1969
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Bill Robinson

Apologies in advance for another watermelon joke, which kind of redeems itself with yet another George Wallace joke. These guys were really obsessed with George Wallace.

CLOD SQUAD
Spoof #1, October 1970
w: Len Wein
a: Marie Severin

In the foreground of the party is William F. Buckley referring to Gore Vidal.