Another of my favorite covers:

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WHAT IF 34, August 1982

With the normally detached and emotionless Watcher, begging the reader not to buy this issue of WHAT IF, because of the unspeakably terrible contents.

Although it's actually a great issue, collecting humorous parodies of Marvel heroes from issues of CRAZY magazine, with work by most of the creative teams doing the regular series that were parodied here, including:

Miller/Janson DAREDEVIL
Moench/Sienkiewicz MOON KNIGHT
Jones/Brent Anderson KA-ZAR
Stern/Simons GHOST RIDER
Hall/Breeding AVENGERS
Fingeroth/Springer DAZZLER
Romita Jr/Layton IRON MAN

among others.

All framed together in a sequence by Hembeck.


My favorite is "Spidey Intellectual Stories" by Stern and Hannigan, where Spiderman and the Mad Thinker, instead of a fight scene, sit around in armchairs discussing Spinoza and the meaning of love.
[Comments the Watcher: ] "For a select audience to be sure..."


This artist jam issue is second only to the outstandingly fun FANTASTIC FOUR ROAST (March 1982)