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Showing posts with label INCREDIBLE HULK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label INCREDIBLE HULK. Show all posts
Considering how much the Muppets became part of American culture, it's strange there was never a proper parody of them. They were, however, referenced in other parodies and many articles. Here are only a few.
This was the cover of Crazy #57, December 1979. Crazy was published by Marvel, so it only made sense they would feature the Hulk on their cover.
Crazy #57, December 1979
w: Michael Pellowski
a: John Reiner
The M*A*S*H parody isn't much different from the Veterenarians' Hospital bits they did on the show.
Cover to the German edition of MAD.
And the German edition of Cracked.
From Cracked #187, July 1982, art by John Severin.
THE INCREDIBLE BULK
MAD #204. March 1979
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Angelo Torres
Based on the comic book, the television show uses the “man on the move” concept used by programs such as The Fugitive, Run For Your Life, Branded, Kung Fu, etc. where the person is either presumed dead on on the lam and encounters different people every week. The beginning of the show (see video link above) tells the story at the beginning of David Banner (Bill Bixby), thought to be dead and accused of a murder while under the influence of his alter ego, is on the run and becomes his alter ego, the Hulk (Lou Ferrigno), when he's angry. While on the run, he tries to control his temper.
In the building are Raj and his mother from What's Happening? (though they lived in a house). MAD decided that since the show was based on a comic book, there would be comics characters throughout the article, like on this page that features Batman and Robin, Andy and Pet from Andy Capp, D.J. and Zonker from Doonesbury. and Snoopy.
The joke in the last panel doesn't quite age well.
I thought the last row of panels was really funny as a kid, and I remember other kids talking about it for months, because what kid doesn't think someone sitting on a toilet is funny?
DON MARTIN LOOKS AT THE HULK
MAD #221, April 1981
w & a: Don Martin
Not of the TV show per se, but obviously done because of it.
Not Brand Ecch was Marvel's self-parody title. Here's their take on their own Hulk character.
THE INEDIBLE BULK
Not Brand Ecch #3, October 1967
w: Gary Friedrich
a: Marie Severin
In the window here is Herman Munster.
Betty Ross was the daughter of the general who pursued the Hulk and she was Bruce Banner's girlfriend.
Yubiwaza was a fighting technique Marvel readers would only know about because it was advertised in Marvel Comics. David Janssen was the lead character from The Fugitive.
THE INCREDIBLE HUNK
Cracked #177, May 1981
a: John Severin
This parody doesn't even try to have anyone look like the actors and characters in the series or comic.
IF GARY COLEMAN PLAYED OTHER PARTS
Cracked #161, August 1979
a: R. McGeddon (John Severin)
We've already established that Cracked would do parodies and mash-ups of everything that was popular with the kids over and over and over.
Crazy did two parodies of the show, probably because they were both comics published by Marvel.
AN INCREDIBLE TALK WITH THE INCREDIBLE HULK
Crazy #32, January 1978
w: Paul Laikin
a: Kent Gamble
They liked to use Richard Nixon even after he long went away.
THE INCREDIBLE HUNK
Crazy #50, May 1979
w: Michael Weiss
a: Kent Gamble
I know the writer of this piece. He tells about his experience seeing his first printed work in high school that I featured on my former blog and he provided examples of Drucker swipes side-by-side. In all fairness to Mr. Gamble, from what I've read cartooning was a phase for him and not his day job.
In the splash panel, there seems to also be a caricature of Don Rickles. I don't know if it's swiped from anything.
I showed this same page on my Carnal Knowledge post last year where I noticed the same caricature of Candice Bergen was used four times on this page right down to her clothing.
The Ernest Borgnine portrait comes from MAD's Willard parody, Charles Bronson from their version of Death Wish, and the pigs from MAD's parody of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Their Bill Bixby seems to be Burt Ward at times.
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? (1967)
dir: Stanley Kramer
GUESS WHO'S THROWING UP DINNER?
MAD #122, October 1968
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
from MAD Mini-Movies
Sorry that I keep belaboring things like this, but it's important to point out that at one time interracial marriage was actually considered controversial at one point, even illegal in some states, and races that weren't white were considered "other". Sort of still is looked down on, just more so even then, even within the coastal bubble. Not my fault, I wasn't even born yet.
Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), returns from a vacation and introduces Dr. John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) the man she's going to marry. The mother (Katherine Hepburn) is shocked finding her daughter is going to marry a black man, but only worried about what her husband (Spencer Tracy) will think. He meets him and is impressed by Dr. Prentice's credentials, but is worried about what society will think. He's a newspaperman and social justice crusader but secretly doesn't approve. Father Ryan (Cecil Kellaway) comes to visit and doesn't even blink finding out about the marriage. John's parents (Roy Glenn Sr. and Beah Richards, who look nothing like this) come for dinner and his father feels the same way. Mr. Drayton gives a big speech at the end about how he's come around to accepting the marriage and gives his blessing.
There's a subplot not used here where the maid (Isabel Sanford a/k/a TV's Weezy) doesn't like it at all.
GUESS WHAT'S COMING TO DINNER!
Not Brand Ecch #13, May 1969
w: Stu Schwartzberg
a: Stu Schwartzberg & Tom Sutton
Marvel's known now for its diversity but they were just as white as everyone else at one time.
Spencer Tracy had previously been in Old Man and the Sea.
-Tracy also starred in Judgement at Nuremberg.
-"Heah come de judge" was a common phrase used by various comedians, at that time it would have been common with Flip Wilson and on Laugh-In.
-Merry Marvel Marching Society was their in-house fan club and through their letters pages many fans became penpals.
-"Is this the little girl I carried?" is a line from 'Sunrise, Sunset' in Fiddler on the Roof.
The daughter's fiancee here is Bruce Banner, alias the Incredible Hulk.
Here Hulk's parents are the Jolly Green Giant and Phyllis Diller. I guess Phyllis Diller because she made herself unattractive as part of her act.
In the movie there's a scene where the father relieves stress by going for a drive, stops over at an ice cream stand, and can't remember what flavor it is he likes. It's only about two minutes of the movie but they made a whole page out of it.
The new guy is Mangog (see illo below this page), a Thor villain who has yet to be in any of the movies. The other titles on the marquee are parodies of In the Heat of the Night and For the Love of Ivy, two other Sidney Poitier films.
This scene cracks me up because it has nothing to do with anything and has people you never see again and the only reason I can see for it being there is to further emphasize the changing times with young people and their miscegenation.
