MAD's Don Martin Comes on Strong

Mad's Don Martin

by Don Martin

Vintage TV tie-in paperback

Genres: Humor, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Comedy

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 1, 1971

About the author

Cartoonist and illustrator for MAD Magazine from 1956 through 1988. Known as "MAD's Maddest Artist."

Reviews

[Phil]

This is Don Martin in top form! This contains 10 or so longer 'stories' such as 'star struck over Brooklyn' featuring a dancing spider and a vaudeville guy, several 'wild west' adventures, an opera spoof and so much more. Love the art work and I found this one really funny. 4 Mad stars!

[Sarah]

I have a soft spot for MAD stuff because my dad enjoyed some of it for a little while. So when I came across this book I was excited to try it out. It was a fun quick read. I appreciated that is was clean comedy, that's super hard to come by, and it actually made me laugh. Good stuff.

[David Thomas]

Great material from when MAD Magazine was in its prime. I actually inherited this copy from my dad's treasure trove of old comics. I love Don Martin's trademark style, and the book has a decent number of laugh out loud gags.

[Paul Black]

Maybe I'm tried, but the humor and drawing were a little too slapstick and extreme.

[Lewis Szymanski]

Don Martin seemed a lot funnier when I was twelve. I like Martain's drawing style, but the jokes were bland.

[Dan]

I’m happy that at one point in my life I found this funny

[stevie yannucci]

I went to a thrift store and picked up some blinks book bags and this was one of them, got to say I did end up giggling at some of the pages, definitely wouldn't read it on my own but it was funny to see what "humor" books were before books were as popular as they are now.

My grandma, who was with me, seemed to enjoy the book really well. It's not for me because I normally don't do humor but I still found it funny and it was a cute little book.

[Gerry]

Graphic stories from Don Martin and in this volume, meet Snyder Spider the performing spider, Nancy Nice the neurotic air stewardess, Lance Parkertip the noted notary public and others ... and they are all MAD! Good, frenetic fun!

[FranklinTV]

Okish to thin collection of Don Martin cartoons. Not his best paperback.