Cracked Magazine, who used to read it

[Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite]

Long before they had one of the funniest websites online, they made one of the most mediocre humour magazines.







Everything about it screamed "Poor Man's MAD" but damn if we didn't read it every month anyway

[Chronos]

I still have a couple of old issues tucked away in a box somewhere, I think the "Holy Men in Black" issue is one of them. I was into it as a kid.

[The Sam]

I got some ones from the 70's and 80's that were my Dads still lying around somewhere.

[Apricots And A Pear Tree]

I did.Shame all of the negatives or whatever had to be destroyed.

[theryno665]

I always preferred Cracked to Mad.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Apr 4, 2011 8:06:46 GMT -5 theryno665 said:

I always preferred Cracked to Mad.

[willywonka666]

I loved the magazine and still pick up back issues. I don't think the site should be using the name a all though

[wildojinx]

I used to and it actually got better around the 80s when they had guys like mort todd, peter bagge, bill wray, and steve ditko (yes, THAT steve ditko) working for them.

[forgottensinpwf]

I had a couple issues, and I didn't mind it.

[Kash Flagg]

Love it. Would grab that and Mad and that would be an afternoon spent in idiocy.

[Young Game]

Cracked...MAD...and Fangoria were the magazines of my childhood.
I found a box of these magazines when I was cleaning out my garage back home. I was sooooo freakin' ecstatic! ;D

[darthalexander]

Mad completely blew Cracked out of the water for me until Gaines passed away and it jumped the shark (Mad). Cracked was always second-best for me and always will be. The site though is amazing.

[Deleted]

I read both versions of Cracked

[Mister Pigwell]

I had a subscription to MAD as a kid and whenever I was in the grocery store with my mom I'd have her pick up Cracked if the issue looked silly enough.

[Joe Neglia]

I preferred Cracked for a time because I was still in the parent-caused mindset that Mad was just too vulgar at times. Not that I minded, but I was always afraid of the 'rents finding an ish of it.

That said, I collected the Cracked Monster Party issues religiously. Still have a bunch of those somewhere.

[8.2.11/SAVIOR_NEZ]

Cracked Magazine made 7th grade a bit more bearable for me.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

It was like drinking Mr Pibb.

[Johnny Flamingo]

Apr 4, 2011 17:27:19 GMT -5 Confused Mark Wahlberg said:

It was like drinking Mr Pibb.

Mr. Pibb > Dr. Pepper

Cracked > Mad

I agree ;D

[Glitch]

I've read some of it when I was young. It was a copy of Mad but since I found Mad funny that meant Cracked was funny too.
Even funnier is the fact that my uncle had both magazines sometimes and I would forgot which one I was reading sometimes.

[Big DSR Energy]

Read a bunch of Mad and Cracked back when I was a kid. I still have the issues of Mad, but I cut up my issues of Cracked so I could make pogs out of the images.


Gawd, I was an idiot in the mid-90s.