Another humor magazine fighting for its place on newsstands alongside MAD was SICK. It ran for 134 issues for two decades from 1960-1980. Created by Joe "Captain America" Simon, he was the editor until near the end of the 1960's. First published by Crestwood Publications, it was handed over to Hewfred Publications and finally Charlton took over in 1979 with #109.
Like most of the other humor 'zines, SICK would take a poke now and again at movie monsters. This is one example from #112 (October 1976). At this time, Joe Simon's son, Jim, was the editor and Jerry Grandenetti was the Executive Director. Other notable artists that worked on SICK over the years were Jack Davis, Angelo Torres and Dick Ayers. Bob Powell was the Art Director until his death in 1967.
This King Kong "fanzine" was written by Jim Simon and illustrated by Grandenetti and Nonoy Marcelo. The cover for this issue is also by Grandenetti.
BONUS!
Jack Davis was at it again with another one of his humorous takes on the Frankenstein monster -- this from SICK (December 1963).
I'm pretty sure I have that Kong issue of SICK around here. I was hard into anything Charlton at this time. And even then Grandenetti was one of my favorite artists. His horror work is top notch, yet I have no recollection of ever seeing a collection of any kind.
ReplyDeleteRip, the only one I'm aware of is Dark Horse's collection of The Secret Files of Dr. Drew that came out about 10 years ago or so. With all the books being published about older comic art and stories these day, you'd think someone would come around to the idea!
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