Buy Cracky, By Cracky!

I don't want to scare you...

...but a rock & roll parrot wants to sing to you.

I can't read music, so I'll presume that's an amazing rock tune there...

Cracky was sorta kinda the mascot for Gold Key Comics, presenting their joke pages and "educational" features, and eventually they spun him off to host...

But, like all the parrots who tried to hop onto the mod, mad world of rock 'n' roll, Cracky eventually grew up, and narrowed his focus:

You'd think that if you wanted to sell a magazine of jokes, you'd present an actual joke in your ad, or, you know, make it funny. But maybe that's just me...

Ads from Star Trek #2 (1968) & #10 (1971)