Cracked Blockbuster

From 1987 to 1999, Globe Communications published Cracked Blockbuster, a 13-issue comic series that parodied major Hollywood films with the irreverent, gag-a-minute style of its parent magazine, Cracked. Writers Jerry De Fuccio, Lou Silverstone, and Roger Brown, alongside artists John Severin, Frank Cummings, and Peter Fitzgerald, drove the series’ satirical take on blockbuster cinema, blending slapstick humor with caricatured movie spoofs. Though short-lived, the series stands as a niche artifact of the late-era newsstand humor-comic boom, capturing the pop culture obsessions of its time through the lens of a beloved parody institution.