leolinden 714 Report post Posted October 24, 2015 2 for 0.99 cent MAD magazines at my local comic shop. Gonna go and get some more sometime. The earliest I have here is 1973 7 RickR, The Professor, Atari Adventure Square and 4 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rowsdower70 4,513 Report post Posted October 24, 2015 Love me some MAD. Cracked was pretty fun too! 1 greenween reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RickR 11,146 Report post Posted October 24, 2015 WOW! You've been finding GOLD lately. Keep it up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arenafoot 2,299 Report post Posted October 24, 2015 Another sweet deal Leo! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenween 2,286 Report post Posted October 24, 2015 Nice Leo! I have boxes of Mad and Cracked, I still subscribe to Mad! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan Iacovelli 427 Report post Posted October 24, 2015 MAD,Crazy and Cracked are good satried mags, but mad was the one that started it all Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atari Adventure Square 506 Report post Posted October 24, 2015 Mad Magazine was the highlight of humor in the 70s. I was kinda young when the first ones were dropped in front of me (was about 6-7), so only the wordless cartoons meant anything, but the different, highly-stylized drawings were a great thing to pore over. It was like a reflection of the variety of life, the spicy differences that make us interesting to each other even as we dress the same or eat the same fried chicken. It also nurtured my passion for movies, with its dead-on spoofing of famous hits with impressive caricatural depictions of the actors. Basically 'watched' R-rated movies as a kid by reading Mad's take on them (although the spoofed content was PG, at worst). Today, Sergio Aragones is my fave artist with his continuing Groo series. Watch his Mad Marginals (tiny one-joke drawings between cartoon frames) for real genius at work. Yeah, also a big Cracked fan, but nothing ever topped Mad for sheer inspired lunacy. 2 RickR and leolinden reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RickR 11,146 Report post Posted October 24, 2015 ^ I agree with the Square. Favorite Mad Artist: Al Jaffee. I recently sold off all my Cracked, but kept MAD. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
