Sigh*** Who remembers what MAD Magazine was like before theyt sold out?

[TheMightyFavog]

All, black and white, no F'n ads, awesome artists like Jack Davis, Sergio Aragones, and Dave Berg and of course, Al Jaffee's funny fold-ins. And the Old Prohais style Spy vs. Spy. Good times, good times.

[_testify_]

1. You're gonna make me cry

Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions was a HUGE part of my childhood

[WindRavenX]

2. my childhood magazine

Truly good times.

Now it sucks :cry:

[swag]

3. I confess, I could not pass up a single issue from that era,.

when I was 10, 11, 12. 1971, 72, 73.

And Jack Davis was an artistic god to me. King of the caricature. Nobody could touch him.

And of course I loved this piece:

[johnnie]

4. .

x(





Actually they can still be pretty funny here and there. Very anti-bush.

[begin_within]

5. It was my education.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. You forgot this guy

[TheMightyFavog]

7. FWABADAP!

SHTOINK! FOONG! PEEEEEN!

How could I forget the late, great, Don Martin?

The Death of Don Martin William Gaines, and Antonio Prohais was the beginning of the end of MAD.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Roger Kaputnik

Melvyn Furd

Irving Veeblefester

And potrzebie!

:bounce:

[Arkham House]

10. Don't forget Mickey Bitsko...

[Frank Cannon]

23. Or Melvin Cowznofski! (n/t)

[havocmom]

9. Am so old I remeber when Alfred E. still had his baby teeth

and MAD was done on clay tablets.

[eleny]

19. Scoot over - you are not alone!

My brother used to buy it and I used to read it as soon as I could. It was so long ago that my dad even ripped up a copy because he thought it was subversive. Yoiks!

[Left Is Write]

11. Yes. I remember when it was cutting edge, merciless, and very funny.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. Does MAD still even exist?

Scenes We'd Like to See.

Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.

Movie Parodies.

Ahh... I loved it all!

[TheMightyFavog]

18. Yes...

But it's printed in color now and sports ads.

[gauguin57]

13. When I was a kid in the '60s, I read, re-read and memorized my brother's

MAD magazines going back to the late '50s.

Forty-some years later, I can still remember MAD's list of "carols for other holidays."

Here's a timely one for April 15th. I still remember MAD's lyrics (a classic):

To the tune of "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"

They come on April 15th dear
To take awaaay our gold.
Tax men, unmoved by plea or tear
It makes our blood run cold.

Oh income tax, you break our backs
The gooovernment takes all.
A thief by any other name
Would never have such gall.

[gauguin57]

14. And here's another 1950s MAD carol, for April Fool's Day

To the tune of "Jingle Bells":

Look for flowers that squirt
And whoopee cushions, too
Be on the alert
Or someone might fool you
It's a day for cranks
Funny trick and cracks
'Cause April First's for childish pranks
And other maniacs.


Oh ... "April Fool! April Fool!" they shout with each joke

[gauguin57]

16. And my favorite MAD carol of all ...

A 1950s MAD carol for Halloween, to the tune of "Deck the Halls."

Wreck the walls and fences, golly!
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
Isn't trick-or-treating jolly?
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
Ring the doorbell, slash the tire
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
Trip the old man with a wire!
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

Dressed in sheets and odd apparel
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
Can't tell John from Max or Carol
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
Which is good, 'cause no one else can
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
Just like grown-ups play Klu Klux Klan!
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

[Heidi]

15. The old Mad Magazine was a gateway comic.

It led me to harder comics like R. Crumb, etc., and I'm forever grateful. :D

[Zookeeper]

17. My kids get it now...

and I think it's more political than it was when I read it as a kid.

Mad frequently makes fun of BushCo.

[Common Sense Party]

20. Sold out? I didn't even know it still existed. n/t

[Squeech]

21. Critical thinking

Better than anything else, Mad taught its readers how to see through advertising and sales pitches. Of course you can't really quantify this stuff, but I firmly believe that Mad was the X factor in making the '60s so liberal.

Well, I suppose the drugs helped some :smoke: But first you had to get into a headspace where you were prepared to question authority.

[Frank Cannon]

24. I know MAD contributed to my lifelong skepticism re: advertising

From the time I was old enough to read, I was reading MAD magazine and MAD books. It seems like the world of MADison Avenue was a constant target for parody in the '50s and '60s. I still see the same absurdities in advertising today.

[Brewman_Jax]

22. Those were the days

Dave Berg, Don Martin and the old stalwarts. Now, it's a video game ad magazine with a little reading material. :(

[July]

25. The greatest.

Highlight of my childhood.

[Beausoir]

26. Loved it growing up, especially the fold thing at the end. n/t

[Beware the Beast Man]

27. Have you ever seen the video for "Girl" by Beck?

It's a take on the Mad Fold-Ins, but in real time. Very cool video.

[LibertyLover]

28. MAD's movie and tv parodies were the best -

I still remember one they did of the first Superman movie - young Superman is telling his stepdad that he flew faster than a locomotive; stepdad replied "that's nice son, but that was the Long Island Rail Road - commuters can walk faster than it." Since I lived in NJ, just across the river from NYC, LIRR (horror) stories were legion.

[Bridget Burke]

29. When you knew a Texan was liberal--because he read Mad?

I'm sure that, in those days, old fans lamented the racier comic strip style that Mad had abandoned. (Still available in paperbacks then.) One thing to remember--the Stars of The Old Mad either died or went on to new pastures. Their "successors" who came of age in the 60's & 70's went Underground.

Check out "President Bush's Month Long Vacation" from The New Mad. It's still pretty far ahead of anything else aimed at the younger folks.... www.dccomics.com/mad/?action=past_madness

This ought to take you back: www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/index.html

Gosh--missed January 31st again!

[AllegroRondo]

30. It was originally a comic book

in the late 1950s.

But in 1957 (?) the Amierican Comics Code authority decided to "censor" comics. If you look on modern comic books you will still see a little "ACC approved" box on the cover.

Mad didnt want to submit to ACC approvals, and changed to magazine size to avoid it.

[hedgehog]

31. I've picked it up from time to time, but the've gotten lazy

Sorry fellows, naughty talk may be shocking, but it isn't automatically funny or meaningful and oftentimes it's just plain stupid. We've heard all the dirty words by now, tell us sometihing new.

[TheMightyFavog]

32. Neuman for President!

Hey, he can't be worse than *!