IN COLD BLECCH

IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
dir: Richard Brooks

IN COLD BLECCH
MAD #122, October 1968
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

In this, Robert Blake completely goes against type and plays a murderer.

Based on the book by Truman Capote, it tells the real life story of two convicts on parole, Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Dick Hickok (Scott Wilson) and their murder of the Clutter family, which they targeted in order to burglarize. They are drawn here as Ozzie Nelson's family. The movie switches from years earlier when the crime happened to the present when it is being investigated, and being trailed by a reporter (Paul Stewart) who's a stand-in for Capote. Perry and Dick are eventually caught and executed.

The kid in the lower left refers to a scene where the criminals are driving out of the country and pick up an old man and his grandson hitchhiking in the desert, and they politely indulge the boy who makes change picking up empty bottles by the side of the road.

MAD'S TELEVISION NETWORK PRESIDENT OF THE YEAR
MAD #110. April 1967
w: Stan Hart
a: Joe Orlando

A couple years earlier, when In Cold Blood was still just a book, they did this article. Some of the shows are still air in syndication, some were forgotten. The photos were a good way for Joe Orlando to get out of having to do caricatures. Most people I know don't even watch network TV anymore but it still works this way.