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Raving Mad
MINOR STICKER DAMAGE ON COVER. AGE RELATED TANNING INSIDE COVERS.
- GenresHumor
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1966
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Al Feldstein
368 books48 followersAlbert Bernard Feldstein was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad. After retiring from Mad, Feldstein concentrated on American paintings of Western wildlife.
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January 4, 2025
I read the (get ready for it)
1968 edition of the original 1966 paperback, which contains material originally published in Mad magazine in 1961.
Got all that?
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Mad magazine's humor was more text-based than visually based. Yes, we still have comics by artists like Don Martin and David Berg, but we also have much longer introductions and a parody of Reader's Digest and a medical magazine.
If you read this online, such as at the Internet Archive, you're going to need to greatly enlarge the pages. You not only catch little details in the art, but also in the text. I'm getting to greatly appreciate the artist who always seems to have a potted plant named ARTHUR in each paperback.
There's a section on karate being new (!) That may offend some readers. Keep in mind that Mad mostly makes fun of white people, so now it's equal opportunity time for the Japanese ... I think they were meant to be Japanese.
There were a couple of dead pet jokes that made me sad. Now, I fully admit that I'm a hypocrite, because the dead people jokes didn't bother me at all.
I think the celebrity posing as Narcissus in the Greek Mythology Primer is Bobby Darin, but I'm not 100% sure. If it's not Bobby Darin ... well, it damn well should be!
1968 edition of the original 1966 paperback, which contains material originally published in Mad magazine in 1961.
Got all that?
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Mad magazine's humor was more text-based than visually based. Yes, we still have comics by artists like Don Martin and David Berg, but we also have much longer introductions and a parody of Reader's Digest and a medical magazine.
If you read this online, such as at the Internet Archive, you're going to need to greatly enlarge the pages. You not only catch little details in the art, but also in the text. I'm getting to greatly appreciate the artist who always seems to have a potted plant named ARTHUR in each paperback.
There's a section on karate being new (!) That may offend some readers. Keep in mind that Mad mostly makes fun of white people, so now it's equal opportunity time for the Japanese ... I think they were meant to be Japanese.
There were a couple of dead pet jokes that made me sad. Now, I fully admit that I'm a hypocrite, because the dead people jokes didn't bother me at all.
I think the celebrity posing as Narcissus in the Greek Mythology Primer is Bobby Darin, but I'm not 100% sure. If it's not Bobby Darin ... well, it damn well should be!
August 9, 2015
I think I picked this book up in high school back in the late '70s - early '80s, but I can't remember for sure. Anyway, for the most part I really love Mad, with the exception of the Don Martin material which I don't find funny at all.
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