Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A Few Facts About MAD Magazine

A Few Facts About MAD Magazine

5 comments:

Don Coffin said...

As a kid in the late 1950s/early 1960s, I loved Mad and would buy it whenever I could (a %0.50 weekly allowance didn't go very far, so I bought it mostly when I had a paper route from which I earned--if everyone paid--$5.00 per week for about 8 hours work per week). Spy vs. Spy was probably my favorite regular feature, but I also loved the movie parodies...and I remember the song piece, or at least one that parodied university athletic "fight songs", especially the song for old Pivnic Tech:

Hail, hail, to old Pivnik Tech
We're gonna get it right in the neck
'Til our undergrads get sick
And transfer to USC

(Notre Dame, of course.)

Unknown said...

I loved MAD when I was a kid. I still have six or seven of the very first issues. I don't have #1, though. I should see if I could sell them on eBay.

Todd Mason said...

Well...several factoids are wrong, including the title of the comic and the no-ads policy (MAD always ran house ads, including for the best-of books published by Ballantine and others before corporate synergy had both magazine and pbs published by Warner.

The notion NATLAMP and MAD would've interfered with each other's circulations isn't even as good an argument as that which would have AHMM and EQMM likewise doing so, or F&SF and FANTASTIC. And that one isn't any good, either.

I might believe an argument thus about WOMEN'S DAY and FAMILY CIRCLE.

Art Scott said...

Hard to do an article about MAD without mentioning Harvey Kurtzman, but they did it here. That grump registered, this is mainly a test to see whether I can sign in as a Google user.

Unknown said...

You succeeded. Now you need to start a blog.