Frantic Magazine

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Frantic Magazine is a comic book series published by Marvel UK from 1979 to 1980. Part of Dez Skinn's revamp of the company, the title was a thinly disguised copy of Mad Magazine. It contained the first published work of Alan Davis, as well as early scripts by Alan Moore.

Individual issues contained a collection of parodies of popular culture - movies, TV series and printed adverts. These were mostly self-contained items that appeared in a single issue, though an ongoing strip featured the adventures of Howard the Duck. Many of these features were reprints from the magazine's US counterpart, Crazy Magazine.{{cite journal |last=Arnold|first=Mark |title=What The--?!: Obnoxio the Clown|journal=Back Issue!|issue=91 |pages=68–71|publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing|date=September 2016|location=Raleigh, North Carolina}} Thus, the humour often relied on American slang, phrasing and cultural references - not well known to comics readers in the UK in that era - as well as more than passing familiarity with characters from Marvel Comics.

The magazine's mascot and cover character was an import from Crazy – a sinister clown called Obnoxio The Clown.