Wow, they got that smack on! Now, where can I get me one ‘o them jumpsuits?

The first Skinheads actually appeared in England in 1968/69 as a reaction to Hippies and Flower Power, so Cracked was a little out of touch with that one

This is a pretty amazing find…

“1970s Cracked Magazine accurately predicted 2009″

Best Cartoon Brew headline ever.

Nice… I had the original issue this was printed in as a kid. If I remember correctly it also had a bunch of iron on t-shirt transfers with various slogans and also letters to create your own.

What’s with the spelling of “potatoe” in the bottom corner of the second page? Don’t tell me Dan Quayle was right?

Eddie Mort > Exactly, but how come he calls the two hippies “mod 60’s and 70’s” in comparison with the “roaring twenties”?
Original mods would roll over in their graves… these kids are too bald and dressed like **** to be skins.

John Severin must be a bitter hippy! *puke*

Now look ahead to 2050, when the old geezers on the bench will be covered in tattoos and piercings, and the young’uns will all have un-marred skin.
Those rebellious young punks! They think they’re too good for a little ink and a nipple ring!

I don’t think they’re actual “skinheads”… they’re probably a THX-1138 type of future person and that’s the lazy insult the oldsters use.

Where the Hell is my flying car, Dammit!

That line about “exploiters” foisting noise upon the kids was alarmingly accurate….

Uncanny. That store selling “uni-style” clothing in the third image must be American Apparel.

“Why do all the kids wear the same drab outfits?”

The future rulz.

Too bad Cracked never predicted it’s downfall in the hands of incompetent, multi-ethnic investors.

Great post anyway!

There’s a bunch of old Mad articles from the 60s and seventies that do a similar predictive thing… One spoofing the overpopulation of city streets, and how someday someone will invent a crazy car-elevator metal parking contraption so you can have MULTIPLE CARS FIT IN THE SAME SPACE by having them stack higher. And another riffing on the future of the airline industry, and how they would (horror!) ELIMINATE MEALS AND SERVICES to cut costs. There’s many more, but those are the first two examples that come to mind.

let’s all go out and celebrate!!!

Uncomfortably close in many ways…

Since I am currently in the process of indexing “Cracked” magazines for my upcoming book, I can safely say that the first appearance of this article was in “Cracked” #96, October 1971.

In Issue #191 (Nov. 1982), there is an iron-on on the inside of the back cover with a Rocky checklist on it. It goes from Rocky 1-6. Rocky 1, 2 & 3 are checked off. 4, 5 & 6 are blank. Bob Sproul, Pop Culture Psychic?

Cracked, you know all!