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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 2, 2024 23:17:47 GMT -5
The first Mad I had was the Jaws issue. The first I recall seeing was a cousin's copy, with The Exorcist. I was more into adventure stuff and Mad was more expensive than standard comics, so I only ever had a handful of issues of it and a couple or three Cracked issues. I bought a few back issues, in my collecting days. I did pick up the Russ Cochran reprint of the early comic issues and then the DC magazine size reprints of all of the comic book issues, in the 90s. I kind of preferred that stuff to what the magazine evolved into. When I did read issues, it was always for Sergio, Proyas and Don Martin, rather than the parodies and I never "got" Dave Berg. Cracked was kind of the same way, except Nanny Dickering was there to drool over Bill Ward's sexy women. Boy was it a shock when I saw some of the other stuff he drew. Yikes!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2024 23:23:35 GMT -5
My first memory of MAD was Dagwood getting gunned down....it was one of the pocketbooks I came across when I was small.
I have a friend in the US who has a lot of them....but he told me he doesn't open them anymore because the binding has given away and they are falling apart. I know the feeling with some of the UK Egmont pocketbooks I had when I was around 8....they were slightly larger than the DC Blue Ribbon digests but Blue Ribbon held together far better.
I tend to avoid the MAD pocketbooks for that reason, but there's a decent collection of larger size Hardcovers.
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Post by tonebone on Feb 5, 2024 15:20:23 GMT -5
My first memory of MAD was Dagwood getting gunned down....it was one of the pocketbooks I came across when I was small.
I have a friend in the US who has a lot of them....but he told me he doesn't open them anymore because the binding has given away and they are falling apart. I know the feeling with some of the UK Egmont pocketbooks I had when I was around 8....they were slightly larger than the DC Blue Ribbon digests but Blue Ribbon held together far better.
I tend to avoid the MAD pocketbooks for that reason, but there's a decent collection of larger size Hardcovers.
I had an aunt who worked at a thrift store, and whenever donations came in that included comics, and especially comic paperbacks, she would get them for me. I had stacks of Peanuts, Hagaar, Beetle Bailey, and most importantly, tons of Mad paperbacks. I also first saw that Dagwood getting gunned down story in a paperback. And Starchie, which traumatized me. I really miss all those musty paperbacks! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 5, 2024 17:40:28 GMT -5
My first memory of MAD was Dagwood getting gunned down....it was one of the pocketbooks I came across when I was small.
I have a friend in the US who has a lot of them....but he told me he doesn't open them anymore because the binding has given away and they are falling apart. I know the feeling with some of the UK Egmont pocketbooks I had when I was around 8....they were slightly larger than the DC Blue Ribbon digests but Blue Ribbon held together far better.
I tend to avoid the MAD pocketbooks for that reason, but there's a decent collection of larger size Hardcovers.
I had an aunt who worked at a thrift store, and whenever donations came in that included comics, and especially comic paperbacks, she would get them for me. I had stacks of Peanuts, Hagaar, Beetle Bailey, and most importantly, tons of Mad paperbacks. I also first saw that Dagwood getting gunned down story in a paperback. And Starchie, which traumatized me. I really miss all those musty paperbacks! Dagwood getting gunned down was from "The Mad Comic Opera" by Frank Jacobs and Wally Wood in Mad #56. It is probably my all-time favorite Mad story and has appeared a number of times in my Classic Comics Christmas lists. |
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Post by sirloin on Oct 29, 2024 17:01:19 GMT -5
Hello all, my apologies for the shameless plug, but I wanted to let you know about a MAD auction that's coming up next month. Its The Personal Collection of Al Jaffee, and its being held on November 15th at an auction house in New York called Doyle. There's a lot of original artwork for Jaffee's Fold-Ins, some original artwork from the 1960s and 70s, his library of comics and books, the drafting table from his studio, an extensive archive, two "MAD books" with loads of unpublished artwork from the usual gang of idiots, and a whole lot more. The complete catalog is online. If anyone here collects original MAD artwork, then this could be a good chance to acquire some more! Thanks.
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Post by berkley on Oct 30, 2024 23:24:54 GMT -5
My first issue was #160, cover date July 1973, and going through the gallery I see five or six issues that I definitely bought over the following months. I seem to have lasted only about a year or even less as a regular, mainly because it happened to be the time when I stopped buying comics in general for a few years. When I came back to comics in the spring of 1975 I didn't get back into Mad, for no particular reason that I can recall. It's slightly puzzling to me, as I think I would have enjoyed it still.
As others have mentioned, I too liked reading the paperback reprints of the older stuff, possibly even more than I liked the then current issues.
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Post by tonebone on Nov 1, 2024 8:38:44 GMT -5
I had TONS of Mad paperbacks as a kid, but the first issue of Mad Magazine I bought was this one... Mainly for the "Incredible Bulk" TV show parody...  I was hooked for life. |
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Post by jason on Nov 4, 2024 0:03:21 GMT -5
Ok, I heard that Jack Davis left Mad because he was offended by some of the more raunchier and edgier humor they started using in the late 90s (Bill Wray's "Monroe" strip in particular). However, I havent gotten any confirmation on that, so was he offended by that stuff or did he just decide to retire?
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