What was your favorite strip in Mad magazine? :)



Spy vs Spy.  8)


Spy vs Spy - me too!  :)

My favorite was Don Martin.  I even wrote "Uncle Carlos' ABC Book" in his sytle

What, me worry?


Don Martin was my favorite, too.


I remember when they had a Star Trek musical-"Keep on Trekkin'" 


http://mystartrekscrapbook.blogspot.com/2008/11/1976-mad-star-trek-spoof.html


Cat

Did Alfred E.Newman ever have a speaking role?  ???

I remember a parody on “My Three Sons” that they did. It was called “My Three Sonny Boys” and the dude playing the father role was named Fred McMoron.  ;D

Did Alfred E.Newman ever have a speaking role?  ???



He's motto is, "What, me worry?" He even had a record.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6le600NWk0

Or if you prefer disco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY-lbgaOwtQ


Cat

They did an album in 1962 called Mad Twists Rock 'n' Roll.

Some of the funniest of the bunch...

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Some of the funniest of the bunch...

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There is an interesting article about the demise of Mad Magazine in the Washington Post. Print magazines, of course, have a rough time of it these days, but Mad's demise is essentially because what it once poked fun at doesn't really exist anymore.

"Mad’s April 1974 cover boiled the entire sensibility down into a single outrageous image: an upraised middle finger. The blowback was sufficiently intense that publisher William Gaines never went there again. But it wasn’t the readers who objected; it was our moms, dads, ministers, librarians. Our oppressors.

To be subversive, however, requires a dominant culture to subvert. Mad was the smart-aleck spawn of the age of mass media, when everyone watched the same networks, flocked to the same movies and saluted the same flag. Without established authorities, it had no reason for being. Like the kid in the back of the classroom tossing spitballs and making fart sounds, a journal of subversive humor is funny only if there’s someone up front attempting to maintain order."

Read the whole article here:

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mad-magazines-demise-is-part-of-the-ending-of-a-world/2019/07/05/5b3b49ec-9f49-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_source=pocket-newtab&utm_term=.e46497b49f9d

That's the article I started this thread with

That's the article I started this thread with


Oh, right. Sorry.  :-[  :-[  That article is right on the money though.

The magazine of my youth, my father banned it from me, but I still continued to buy it monthly. Such pleasant satirical comedic memories.

The magazine of my youth, my father banned it from me, but I still continued to buy it monthly. Such pleasant satirical comedic memories.
I forgot to mention, i still have my collection of MAD Magazines, and I am holding on to them!

I forgot to mention, i still have my collection of MAD Magazines, and I am holding on to them!


I have a few in my closet.

I have a few in my closet.
I even have a collectors issue #100. I am holding tight to it.

I have a bunch of Mad books that I was thinking of listing on eBay.


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I have a bunch of Mad books that I was thinking of listing on eBay.


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I had plenty of the Mad books too, and they did go on eBay.

I had plenty of the Mad books too, and they did go on eBay.


I have a few Mad magazines but not putting them on eBay.

I should preserve my Mad magazines in folders to keep them in a better condition.

I should preserve my Mad magazines in folders to keep them in a better condition.


I have mine in a box but it's all dusty by now.

I have mine in a box but it's all dusty by now.
Dust is the enemy!

I had plenty of the Mad books too, and they did go on eBay.


I think we'll keep ours

I think we'll keep ours
I just found the ones that did not sell for me.

I just found the ones that did not sell for me.



What are the names of them?

What are the names of them?
They have now been stowed away.

They have now been stowed away.


Mine are stowed away in my closet.

Mine are stowed away in my closet.
In a grate in the spare room.

In a grate in the spare room.



mine is collecting dust.

mine is collecting dust.
In bags, in a grate, protected from dust.

In the late 80s, there was this new found appreciation for MAD Magazine because of the mid 60s revival. As you can see from the Club Nintendo poster on my 1990 thread in the 90s board, MAD Magazine was still popular amongst teens (Xers) and adolescences (Xennials). MAD Magazine in the late 80s and Early 90s was never as big of a deal as the spoofs of the time (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, “The Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad!“, “Child’s Play”, and “Robocop”), but it stood out more than other magazines of that time did.

Of course, the renewed interest in MAD Magazine all ended somewhere in the mid or late 90s. The “MADTV” show was an obvious “In Living Color” rip-off and Millennial viewship couldn’t save it anymore in the mid to late 2000s.

I think MAD Magazine fell ultimately because Zers and Alphas don’t read magazines all too much.

All things must come to an end sometimes. I find myself going through the 80s and early  90s covers from time to time. Those MAD issues serve as a better time capsule than any time capsules we made in those eras.  :)

The UK edition of MAD magazine ceased publication in 1994, but doing the 1980s it was difficult for me to find in the newsagents.