Sick #122 contains a 25 page story broken into chapters spoofing Woody Allen and several television shows including Police Woman, The Bob Newhart Show, and Wonder Woman. The framing story is the Nerd Broadcasting System (NBS) is facing low ratings, so the executives are meeting to review their talent and shows. The executive include Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, King Kong, Jimmy Carter, Earnest Borgnine, and Barf Vader among others. The Darth Vader caricature, NBS' network president, appears on numerous panels throughout the story.
Sick #122a - Charlton Comics, U.S. (August 1978)
The cover, nominally related to the story with Darth Vader, is by Jack Sparling who worked on other Charlton comic books like The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman.
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The story ends with an appearance by a R2-D2 caricature, R2-Doo-Doo.
Sick #122 page 38
The entire issue can be read on the Internet Archive. The interior pages displayed here were taken from there.
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