MAD Magazine 2024 FCBD Special Edition #1

by Various

America’s longest-running satire magazine continues to skewer everything pop culture, this time in comic book size! This Free Comic Book Day special edition of MAD features a wide variety of classic favorites like “Spy vs. Spy”, and “A MAD Look at...” by Sergio Aragonés. Plus, some maniacal mockeries of some of your favorite DC Superheroes, and a whole lot more from the Usual Gang of Idiots. This special edition will surely cure what ails you with a shot of humor in the jugular vein. And it is even cheaper than the usual CHEAP! Because it is FREE! So, you really would be an idiot if you didn’t go out and grab one!

Genres: Comics, American, Humor, Dc Comics

36 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 4, 2024

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Reviews

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I love MADTV so it's 5/5✨✨

Don't tell my husband this, but this stuff here is GOLDEN 😂😂 funny skits and features on the justice league. They got wonder woman f*cked up lmbo. She ain't on no damn steroids !! 😑😑

[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even though most of this is recycled material from years ago it is still funny. The fact that I read most of them the first time they were published dates me. From my point of view MAD should be read by everyone as it is always funny. It probably also helps that I have been a super hero fan for ages and have been reading comic books since before I can remember.

[John Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

a roundup of earlier jokes

A little dated perhaps, as this is a round up from across two or three decades of MAD jokes about super heroes. Mostly DC at that, with the few marvel being more slides-wipes than the focus.
For the price the number of laughs returned was a good value.

[Kieran McAndrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

MAD Magazine 2024 FCBD Special Edition #1

More hijinks and hilarity from the MAD Team, where the jokes are often telegraphed, but always funny.

Some great Peanuts gags and the phone box joke is evergreen.

[Christoph Weber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ah, good old MAD.

I like the Aragones strips.

[Amelia Bujar · Rating 1 out of 5]

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I need to admit that I’ve heard a lot if good things about the Mad magazine, since its sort of like a satirical humor on superheroes, but after reading this one, I gotta admit that I wasn’t fun of this comic book if you can call it that.

I don’t know if it is just me, but I felt like the entire comic book felt very disjointed in a way. Because it was very confusing to me at first, since I never read this magazine before but after a while I started to get the hang of the comic book.

I know that a lot of people think that the magazine is funny, it could be just me or the this comic book but I didn’t find it funny. It safe to say that the humor in this comic book was clearly not meant for me. The humor in this comic book comes across as stale and uninspired.

But I have to admit that I liked some of the sketches and parodies in this one since they had sharp with, but the majority of them didn’t. And because of the fact that I didn’t like the majority of them, the entire comic book seemed boring and torturous to me which explains the low rating I had given this comic book.

The artwork in this comic book is very inconsistent. Because at times the artwork is very good but there are other times where the artwork looks like something drawn by a toddler. The inconsistency in this comic book really annoyed me because I don’t like it when a book, magazine or a movie I’m spending time on is different at times.

The pacing in this book is very uneven. Because some segments of this comic book drag on unnecessarily long. While others are rushed, preventing any real connection with the material. Which really makes it difficult to immerse oneself in the humor or appreciate any deeper commentary the pieces might have been aiming for

[Gary Clark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mad Magazine

This is a digital version of Mad Magazine, it does transfer well to digital, and it was free for comic book day 2024, it even has the folding of the back page, with that being said, there's just something that isn't there.

Those that are curious and enjoy mad magazine, go ahead and try this, you have nothing to lose, it's even free.

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

I miss being Mad!

So I’m pretty sure this FREE digital issue has inspired me to read more Mad! No, not read Mad, READ Mad. Ya know?

Awww ferget it!
Go buy some funny books. Even if they’re not so funny. Like this one!

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have loved MAD magazine for decades, as its irrelevant humor can be an interesting mix of slapstick and then have some very pointed commentary about social issues today. This issue makes fun of DC superheroes, such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Aquaman. There are the usual one-panel strips, along with longer stories drawn in the caricature style that MAD is famous for. A fun read that I’m glad I picked up on FCBD.

[Nicolo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a collection of strips and gags from an earlier iteration of the venerable MAD magazine. Though long extinct of new material in print, this Free Comic Book Day freebie presents a lot of the stories in color for the first time and is resized to fit the narrower comic book page.

It has everything I have missed of MAD, from the Al Jaffee fold-in and the Sergio Aragones marginals. It's free and it comes with my highest recommendation to seek it out on Kindle and read it.

[Dan · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collection of MAD magazine short graphics.

Several different incarnations of Batman. Most are very dated, and it shows.

The Young Batman ones are cute, though.

The “What if Batman were 85” has potential, yet it remains unrealized.

Superman — good
Joke and Dagger — weird
Joker — meh
Harlie — is there
The group ones — funny
Black and whites — amateurish
Peanuts — adequate
The Arthur (Dilbert) riff is funny

The President Bush jokes—and the gay jokes—have not aged well.

Overall? Bland.

Tries to hit too many targets; does not land much humor.

[Christian Schultheiss · Rating 3 out of 5]

After only having ever experience mad on the television I can say with a certainty that it’s the exact same kind of humor when put to the page. I thought a lot of the spoofs on Superman and Batman were funny it’s just none of them made me purely laugh out loud. This is definitely a goofy and quirky comic edition to the collection.

[James Norton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hard to stay mad when it's free

Mad started out as a comic book and now it's a comic book albeit a digit one. Once Mad had a tiny edge to it but the parent police got ahold of it stamped it with a G rating leaving the children trying to explain why something was funny to their parents . The cost of these things ment rent wasn't getting paid this month but hey, this one is free.

[Gabriel Benitez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una recopilación de la revista MAD de diferentes sketches hechos sobre los superhéroes pero centrándose más que nada en los de DC. Muy buenos aquellos que están basados en las tiras cómicas dominicales mezclándolas con los super.

[Bob Cantrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is Mad

A truly funny comic that needs to be read by comic book fans of all ages. What I like is the way that the icons of the comic book universe are so lampooned, but in a tasteful way. I laugh from beginning to the end.

[p Cox · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great to see Mad magazine

Still the number one (1) comic of all time. It's great to see. The satire is hilarious. Spy vs Spy, Superman, Batman, The
Joker, et all. Its everything you would want.

[Ron · Rating 5 out of 5]

A funny view (Mad style) of superheroes. Enjoyable and old school mad

[Yasser Maniram · Rating 2 out of 5]

More misses than hits but the hit ratio does go up later in the issue.

[Freya · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[DOUGLAS J BERRY · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mad comic is back.

Good color artwork. A dc comix parody. Also some Charlie Brown. Quick and dumb jokes. Kind of a mess at times.

[Al Capwned · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty cool MAD FCBD special, making fan of DC superheroes.

[farhan maqsood · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love comedy’s superhero

I like an actual good laugh when comics have a dramas comedy superhero that has wonderful.

[Kevin Purdy · Rating 5 out of 5]

As Good As Ever

I loved MAD as a kid and loved this romp down memory lane. It’s every bit as good as I remember it. MAD is eternal!!!

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I grew up reading MAD as a boy and teen. I learned to not take life so seriously. This issue shows me why I loved it so much.

[Marianne Hutti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great humor

Just as silly as ever. Politically appropriate to keep all on edge of reality. Good colors over entire mag and full page used

[Vincent Fuentes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always entertaining

So many memories and laughs it was wonderful. I loved comics and
I loved mad and their take on the world
Nothing was off limits
Just wonderful

[Colby Fitzsimmons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really too funny.

[Robert Kimberlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

SOME REALLY FUNNY STUFF. MAD IS THE GREATEST. SUPERHEROES CAN SURE HAVE SOME OUTSTANDING MOMENTS.

[Tony Sakalauskas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked it. A good read.

[Doctor Doom · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some genuine funny sections ruined by obvious left-wing agenda-driven attempts at humor. I don't mind political humor when it is aimed at both sides but when it is so one-sided it just reeks of desperation, I find no humor in it except that which is unintentional.