Heart of the City by Steenz for May 16, 2010

My childhood bible. 35c Cheap

Mine too. & I never worried.

What a sad commentary …

Now, if only they would get rid of the #$%^&# advertising.

http://www.dccomics.com/mad/?action=mad_books&i=13329

Yeah, both I and my sons learned to read with that wonderful piece of potrzibie.

Now, if only William Gaines could be…?

$5.95 cheap? really?

Too bad Comic Relief is gone. It was always an enjoyable read.

I once read an essay arguing that MAD was, as much as anything, responsible for the 1960’s. A whole generation of kids learned when they were preteens that the grownups had no idea what they were doing…

Did you guys know that Hugo-award winning artist Kelly Freas used to draw Alfred E. Newman for MAD?

MAD Magazine Mexico was discontinued due to a lawsuit.

Every time I hear about Mad Magazine, I automatically think “Don Martin” - ”GLUP! GLIK! SPLORP! SLOOPLE! CHOMPLE! GARK! SKLORSH! GLUK! KLOONG! KAPLAM! SPMAM! POONG! BOONG! KLOON! PLAM! FLADDAP! SLURK! GLUP! DRIPPLE BLIT. SHPLIPLE! DROOT! GLORT!”

Don’s “Tarzan Of The Apes”

One year subscription (6 issues): $15

Wasn’t MAD once a monthly? (I lost interest when the Comic Book Code forced them from the comic book format to magazine format. I’ll have to pick one up sometime and see what they look like these days.)

MAD was monthly between 1997 and 2009 (when it went quarterly)…from 1958 until 1997, it was 8 times a year (which is an odd schedule - every 6.5 weeks…I assume it was averaged, but I never paid that much attention to actual release dates until after it went monthly…which was after I stopped reading it, even).

“smacked it right in the gob” - what a great expression, one I hadn’t heard in years! Thanx, Mark!

MAD is a peice of @#$%#

rerun

Doug Gilford’s www.madcoversite.com

i wonder if the strip said anything when mad ceased to be published a few months ago