Obnoxio the Clown

(Marvel, 1983)
™ and ©1983 Marvel Entertainment Group

This one-shot comic featured Obnoxio, the decrepit, cigar-smoking, alcoholic clown from Crazy magazine. The Uncanny X-Men’s Professor Xavier hires him to entertain at Kitty Pryde’s birthday party, but things don’t turn out the way they should. An intruder sets off the X-Men’s alarms and Obnoxio gets caught in the midst of it all. As a result, the clown ends up fighting the X-Men with seltzer water and sneezing powder. In the end, Professor Xavier catches the real intruder—an ice cream man gone bad.

Obnoxio closes his show by thwarting a crime gang when he’s called in for jury duty. Despite his good deed for the day, we doubt the X-Men are going to be inviting him back soon.

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#1

April, 1983
Cover Price: $0.60
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Alan Kupperberg