Here will not be any longer a typical Pappy posting. It’s about Cracked #11 (1959), which your mature Pappy once owned, after which discovered over again on the gain. I had a subscription to Cracked, and do not forget that whomever mailed it to subscribers rolled it up and wrapped paper round it, then hand wrote the name and contend with. Ugh! I hated it!
Nevertheless despite that I became smitten with the disorders that featured Jack Davis. Davis is amply represented in this grunt. He did work for bigger than one grunt of Cracked, however I don’t think he had more of his art work than is discovered here.
Taking a stare at the contents internet page and the artist itemizing, it is admire a itemizing of EC artists: Will Elder, John Severin, and Jack Davis. There will most likely be one other non-EC artist somewhere amongst these guys, however for all intents and functions or no longer it is an all-MAD grunt.
Davis and Elder had every performed work for the upscale journal MAD, after the humorous e-book MAD fell prey to EC going out of the color humorous e-book industry. Davis, in an interview I read years ago however take into account, stated after Harvey Kurtzman’s Humbug flopped he recalled going reduction to MAD author William Gaines and soliciting for work, however Gaines stated his artist roster became paunchy. What? You imply he gave Davis the bum’s toddle? What nerve! In the smash whatever became holding Davis from MAD softened and he became a MADman over again.
I mention over again that I discovered this grunt online. It’s not what survived for a short time of my duplicate of Cracked #11 after being rolled and sent throughout the U.S. Mail. That disappeared decades ago.
