In which I risk undermining my 1960s/1970s rock street cred for all time.

§ March 2nd, 2012 § Filed under reader participation § 41 Comments

So here’s a thing I was wondering about the cover to Spoof #3 (January 1973):


Now, I recognize most of the caricatured celebrities on there:


…the Osmonds, the Jackson 5, the Beatles, Yoko, Mick, Elvis, David, those two politicians of some note. But who’s this guy:


No, not the baby. The dude with the sideburns. …Well, the baby sort of has sideburns, come to think of it. But anyway, I may just be having an Old Man Moment, and not placing the face, but it’s just not ringing any bells with me. I even showed this cover to a couple of folks who’d I’d expected to know right away, and even they were like “huh…who is that?” Even the Grand Comics Database entry doesn’t note who it is.

So, if you know, alleviate our embarrassing ignorance by revealing what is sure to be the forehead-smacking obvious answer in my comments here.

Of course, it may be possible that it’s not supposed to be anybody at all, but that hardly seems likely. The non-celeb types seem to be relegated to being background characters, or stuck behind word balloons:


YOU’LL PUT YOUR EYE OUT, KID. Also, get a haircut, hippie.

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