Short History of MAD magazine.

[Tom]

Before satire tv and movies, there was MAD Magazine.   

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/648353/mad-magazine-history?utm_source=GetTheElevatordotcom

[Gliderjohn]

Classic. The "Onion" and then some.
GliderJohn

[LaMojo]

Yeah. I still have some issues of MAD from the early 60’s and later. Mort Drucker drawings was my favorite.

[geoff in almonte]

Spy vs. Spy

And those silly sketches in the margins.

G

[philwarner]

The variety of posts is what I enjoy in this forum.  Thanks for that link.

 I was an avid Mad reader in my youth and was even an "EC member addict"  with a membership card to prove it, and I still have several dozen issues from the 50s.  I thought for sure I had issue 1 and the composition book issue, but the earliest I find now is issue 10, "The face on the bar room floor". I may still have an Alfred E. Neuman T shirt among my old running gear; guess I should look it up and wear it for riding since my running days are well behind me.

[Don G]

I have always thought Giulio Cesare Carcano kinda looked like Alfred E Newman....

[JJ]

"What? Me Worry?!?" 

Back in the day the Dominican nuns at the Catholic schools I attended BANNED Mad magazines in any of their classrooms!!

[nashopolis]

Ha that’s funny I just drew this for a little project - my ode to the classic -  interestingly Alfred E. Newman as an archetype character has been around for a long time.  MAD picked him up for the modern era.  I’ll have to dig around and find the history for everyone.

[JJ]

I thought this was interesting...

[LowRyter]

Never cared for "comic books".  Then I discovered Mad. 

[nc43bsa]

Never cared for "comic books".  Then I discovered Mad.

Me, too.

And after Mad, National Lampoon.