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Post by Trevor on Sept 13, 2023 6:05:13 GMT -5
Stig’s Inferno is a series I’ve always considered an all-time favorite, but to be honest I only read it once, when it originally came out, and remember pretty much nothing about it. Will pull it out to re-read next time I’m in that box.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 13, 2023 10:59:15 GMT -5
Picked up a bargain load of late 60s/early 70s issues of MAD from a local charity shop yesterday. There were 18 issues in all and they were priced at just 20p an issue, so a measly £3.60 for the lot! They are very much reading copies, with cover creases, worn corners, a touch of spine roll, and some small tears at the staples, but for that price this was a great deal. I'm especially pleased to have the issues with the movie satires of Easy Rider and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in them; I've been after those two for a while.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 13, 2023 11:03:13 GMT -5
Picked up a bargain load of late 60s/early 70s issues of MAD from a local charity shop yesterday. There were 18 issues in all and they were priced at just 20p an issue, so a measly £3.60 for the lot! They are very much reading copies, with cover creases, worn corners, a touch of spine roll, and some small tears at the staples, but for that price this was a great deal. I'm especially pleased to have the issues with the movie satires of Easy Rider and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in them; I've been after those two for a while. I love Mad so much, particularly from that era. I know I had the Butch Cassidy issue and the one with Alfred giving the finger back in the day. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 13, 2023 11:12:35 GMT -5
Years ago I got a Mad lot on eBay for a song. There were many early 60's parodies that gave me a window into the entertainment of the time. Good stuff.
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Post by Trevor on Sept 13, 2023 11:56:51 GMT -5
Every issue of Mad should be in that condition or worse.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2023 12:00:36 GMT -5
Every issue of Mad should be in that condition or worse.
Mine are all in the vicinity of NM including the ones with fold-in covers, so I'm just a different level of MAD.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2023 12:02:38 GMT -5
Picked up a bargain load of late 60s/early 70s issues of MAD from a local charity shop yesterday. There were 18 issues in all and they were priced at just 20p an issue, so a measly £3.60 for the lot! They are very much reading copies, with cover creases, worn corners, a touch of spine roll, and some small tears at the staples, but for that price this was a great deal. I'm especially pleased to have the issues with the movie satires of Easy Rider and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in them; I've been after those two for a while.
I don't have any British variants of MAD, are they the same between the covers as the US copies? I'm sure I've seen some UK MAD with British political caricatures on the cover which makes me wonder if some were specifically tailored to the British market.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 13, 2023 12:33:19 GMT -5
Picked up a bargain load of late 60s/early 70s issues of MAD from a local charity shop yesterday. There were 18 issues in all and they were priced at just 20p an issue, so a measly £3.60 for the lot! They are very much reading copies, with cover creases, worn corners, a touch of spine roll, and some small tears at the staples, but for that price this was a great deal. I'm especially pleased to have the issues with the movie satires of Easy Rider and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in them; I've been after those two for a while. I don't have any British variants of MAD, are they the same between the covers as the US copies? I'm sure I've seen some UK MAD with British political caricatures on the cover which makes me wonder if some were specifically tailored to the British market.
You're right, sometimes the British issues did have Britain-specific content or even covers (the Dr. Who issue from 1975 is a good example)...  I'm not sure when MAD first started doing this, but they would even change any mention of dollars to pounds in the speech balloons in the strips! I'm not sure there were ever entirely British-themed issues though; I think that basically our issues were the same as the American ones, but on occasion a feature or two would be replaced with something written and drawn specifically for the British audience...and sometimes, if it was a big feature (like a TV satire), that would mean there would be a cover change too, as in the case of that Dr. Who issue. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 13, 2023 17:36:04 GMT -5
Got this in the mail today. It features a backup story with Thanos.  |
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 14, 2023 12:49:04 GMT -5
The US version of the "Special Educational Isue" in the top row has the same yellow background and the same illustration, but the text says "Back to Colege Isue". |
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Post by tonebone on Sept 15, 2023 9:54:23 GMT -5
Got this in the mail today. It features a backup story with Thanos. I'm currently psyching myself up to rip the staples out of my entire (whopping 7 issue) run of Logan's Run, to bind them. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 15, 2023 13:29:07 GMT -5
I'm currently psyching myself up to rip the staples out of my entire (whopping 7 issue) run of Logan's Run, to bind them. Already did that, years ago... |
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Post by berkley on Sept 15, 2023 18:16:39 GMT -5
Stig’s Inferno is a series I’ve always considered an all-time favorite, but to be honest I only read it once, when it originally came out, and remember pretty much nothing about it. Will pull it out to re-read next time I’m in that box.
Pretty much the same here: lost my issues in a move in the late 1980s and haven't read the series since - in fact it's only just now that I've finally got round to replacing all those lost issues. Maybe I'll read it this October if I feel in the mood, though I've moved on to the 1990s now in my back-issue reading.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 20, 2023 14:19:18 GMT -5
Had a little time to buzz though my Amazon list for deals. And came up with the following. (all prices includes shipping).  The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 11: 1971 - 1972 - Schulz was probably as good as he'd ever be at this point in time. $10.  A Sailor's Story - This is the collection of Sam Glanzman's two graphic novels. I have the originals, but this was a good price and means I don't have to dig them out to read them. $8.25  Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984 - Super good price on this hardcover. I love me some Bloom County $10.  Rocky & Bullwinkle Classics Volume 2: Vacational Therapy - This reprints the Gold Key issues 5-8 by Al Kilgore from the early 70s. I have zero idea how these stories will be, but I love me some moose and squirrel so I thought I'd give it a shot for the cheap price. $6.75. |
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Post by MDG on Sept 20, 2023 14:40:44 GMT -5
A Sailor's Story - This is the collection of Sam Glanzman's two graphic novels. I have the originals, but this was a good price and means I don't have to dig them out to read them. $8.25 That's a frikkin' bargain for a great book.
It's interesting how DC seemed more comfortable with the idea of auteur creators earlier than Marvel. Besides Glanzman, there was Robbins writing and drawing Batman on a few stories, Sekowsky on WW (as seen in the ongoing thread), Kane on Captain Action, Kirby on his various books, and I'd guess that Ditko could've been writing the "words" on Creeper and Hawk & Dove if he'd wanted to. The only example I can think of at Marvel is Steranko (and they may have felt a little burned by that experience).
(And I should also mention Shelly Mayer on Sugar & Spike.)
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