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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 Rags 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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