This uncredited cover baffles me.
As it doesn’t appear to connect to bowling, I’m guessing it’s some sort of labor/industrial sabotage racket — you want to hurt your rival, the bad guy will trigger a strike. But that’s only a guess. And how does that tie in with the chorus line? I’ve looked online without any luck finding answers.
Seeing this Kelly Freas cover gave me one of those “times change” moments. I was never a Mad fan — their sense of humor doesn’t mesh with mine — but those paperback reprints from the magazine were omnipresent when I was a kid. On every newsstand, every spinner rack, or so it seemed — 93 books over four decades. I never thought about the fact they’d disappeared by the end of the last century but the sight of this image hit me with the awareness. Mutter, mutter, something about kids these days.
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