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Crazy Magazine
"The Future! Or What's Left of It!"

Issue 1, October 1973, Marvel Comics

story, Harlan Ellison;
illustration, Basil Wolverton;
cover, Kelly Freas

Crazy was Marvel's version of a Mad Magazine style of humor magazine. It featured movie and tv parodies as well as other "humorous" articles, most of which directly ripped-off or "parodied" articles from Mad. This first issue featured parodies of the Poseidon Adventure and Kung-Fu along with essays and pieces by Jean Sheperd, Ellison, and Vaughn Bode, as well as many of Marvel's staff of writers and artists. The magazine continued until the early eighties.

"Future..." is an essay by Ellison with a full page illustration by Wolverton.

In a Who's Who contributors bio page in the back of the book Ellison's biography is given as this:

"Last, but not least (or so he claims), is Harlan Ellison, well known writer of Science Fiction, Television, Movies, short stories, limericks, pornography, and, when he's run out of ideas for everything else, comic books."