10/21/2002: Dagger cheeks

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally posted by warch
I flashed on a particularly memorable gruesome Mad Magazine back cover folding funny- it was Tarzan swinging on a vine with a big knife in his mouth, when you folded it, he hits a tree and slices his mouth back to his spine. ouch.

I remember a Jack Davis rendition of a milder version of the same joke: panel 1, Tarzan swinging on a vine; panel 2, Tarzan, knife in teeth, diving into water; panel 3, discomfited Tarzan in doctor's office, w/doofy looking doc telling him, "Man, you're lucky you didn't cut your head off!" -- the moral of the story seemed to be, "Whenever you have a knife in your teeth, edge out!"