Sunday, April 11, 2010

Sunday Funnies: Marv Wolfman and Neal Adams' "McClown"

Back during the Groovy Age, NBC-TV had a hit series that featured former Gunsmoke co-star Dennis Weaver (he played Chester, natch!) called McCloud. Weaver's character was one of those "fish out of water" types TV loves so well, a cowboy cop in the big city. The show was a hit, running from 1970-1977. You know something's a hit when Mad magazine does a parody. You have to figure your days are numbered, though, when you're parody appears in Crazy. From Crazy Super Special #1 (Summer 1975; reprinted from Crazy #2) here's "McClown" by writer Marv Wolfman (who makes a kooky cameo) and artist Neal Adams.
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  1. AnonymousJanuary 4, 2026 at 7:58 PM

    This was Neal Adams doing a very good impression of Mort Drucker. Before Neal drew a few war stories and a famous run on Deadman in DC's Strange Adventures he spent a year doing humour material not unlike this for The Adventures of Bob Hope and The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, both for DC. He also proved to be a fine caricaturist in selected images in both volumes of The Neal Adams Treasury and both volumes of The Art of Neal Adams, all published in the mid to late 1970s.

    Chris A.

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