MAD Magazine Keeps on Trekin’
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Mad's Mort Drucker and Angelo Torres would have done better art than the British artist IMO.
The website you link to also has the Space:1999 parodies done by Mad imitators Cracked and Crazy (Sick apparently never got around to doing one).
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It's all in the pronunciation. When spoken as "Door-Cons" it's not so bad. And the town was pronounced "Lewtin" but Ol' Freddie was saying "Lou-Tahn" - and outside of the UK, who knew?The Dorcons were a Space: 1999 thing, and they did it without irony. They also went to an alien planet called Luton, but in that case they knew Luton was a town near London. Did it anyway.
It was aimed squarely at the US by this time. The "Keep on Trekkin" Mad issue was probably the first I saw as a kid, mostly because of the Trek cover. While most of the songs played regularly on our AM dial, I had no idea what many of them sounded like. I think there was a comic strip musical parody in that issue, or am I misremembering? I seem to recall a Dick Tracy spoof doing the same thing with "sung to the tune of" in there.
The art was great, but Drucker was brutal on Shatner in that splash page!
That would be the 1960 "Mad 'Comic' Opera" one mentioned by Maurice earlier in this thread. It was reprinted several times, most recently in 2003.
https://www.comics.org/issue/93856/
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The first three issues are very fine. I no longer have 4-10.
I have them as well, I was just curious.
Doing the research on this one was a lot of fun. The parts about the comic and the songs was the easy part, but digging into the history of the MAD musicals, things like "keep on truckin'," and what was going on in the world of Star Trek & fandom in 1976 was most edifying.
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Based on the text of the letter, this would be before MAD did a parody of 'M:I' called "Mission: Ridiculous" written by Dick De Bartolo and illustrated by Mort Drucker.
It's reprinted in "The Complete 'Mission: Impossible' Dossier", along with another one-page parody of 'M:I' written by Chevy Chase.
It's reprinted in "The Complete 'Mission: Impossible' Dossier", along with another one-page parody of 'M:I' written by Chevy Chase.
Yep. That's in the article. “Mission: Ridiculous,” Mad Magazine #118, April 1968, p. 27. (link)
Nice find. We mentioned it in the article. It can be read here. After looking at it again, I added an excerpt from it to the article.
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That's the one I remember. I was in the States so maybe it was a reprint.
Cracked satirized Trek as well. While funny, they didn't have the edge, the snark like Mad did. Scroll to page 38.
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SICK was the first of the major ''big four'' 70s-era humor mags to buy it. As a kid, CRACKED seemed better, but as an adult, you just get two or three good artists. CRAZY began in a different style and holds up better than CRACKED imo.....
One in a great while, MAD handed a film or TV parody to Paul Coker or Jack Davis (ADDAMS FAMILY and ALIENS respectively), but the caricature factor suffered somewhat. ALIENS should have gone to Dave Berg or Don Martin instead.
Three versions, three thank yous.(:
About MADs first Trek satire:
I'm sure many fans are familiar with this BTS publicity photos of Shatner and Nimoy (while on A Private Little War" location shoot?) reading their MAD satire:
Just perfect cross-promotion!
I'm sure many fans are familiar with this BTS publicity photos of Shatner and Nimoy (while on A Private Little War" location shoot?) reading their MAD satire:
Just perfect cross-promotion!
We have one of that series in our article. @alchemist was able to ID exactly what day those photos were taken.About MADs first Trek satire:
I'm sure many fans are familiar with this BTS publicity photos of Shatner and Nimoy (while on A Private Little War" location shoot?) reading their MAD satire:
Just perfect cross-promotion!
SICK was the first of the major ''big four'' 70s-era humor mags to buy it. As a kid, CRACKED seemed better, but as an adult, you just get two or three good artists. CRAZY began in a different style and holds up better than CRACKED imo.....
One in a great while, MAD handed a film or TV parody to Paul Coker or Jack Davis (ADDAMS FAMILY and ALIENS respectively), but the caricature factor suffered somewhat. ALIENS should have gone to Dave Berg or Don Martin instead.
Three versions, three thank yous.(:
I never saw Sick or Crazy where I lived, I don't think they were distributed here.
