Get Lost

by Ross Andru, Mike Esposito (Penciller)

Love Harvey Kurtzman's original MAD? Then you will have to have Eisner Hall of Fame winners Ross Andru and Mike Esposito's historic satire and parody magazine, GET LOST. Originally released in 1954, GET LOST delivered three ground-breaking, laugh-filled

Genres: Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Anthologies

98 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 9, 2007

About the author

Ross Andru (born Rossolav Andruskevitch) was an American comic book artist and editor. He is best known for his work on Amazing Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Flash and Metal Men.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Andru

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the 1950's Mad Magazine was one of the most successful comic book on the news stands. Naturally, it engendered a plethora of imitators. Get Lost! was one of the more successful. In fact, it was so successful, Bill Gaines sued the magazine out of business.

The book itself is very well done. All of the art and lettering looks like it was done yesterday. Hermes Press did a great job.

The contents...Aren't quite as funny as Mad at its best, but is still pretty darn funny. Magazines like this couldn't be published today.

[Renee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Get Lost was a comic magazine similar to MAD Magazine that put out three issues in 1954. This book includes all three issues. Mostly it is parodies. The Shane parody is the only one that stood out as good for me. The rest was mediocre to bad. The vampire story riffing on Cryptkeeper comics was awful. My biggest problem was there was way too many words. I like my comics to rely more on visuals than text.

[Carole · Rating 5 out of 5]

great MAD parody.

Love the disrespectful banter. No reason to be as good as it is. But it is. Well done.
Good luck

[Michael P. · Rating 2 out of 5]

I finally got to read the supposedly great and certainly hart to find GET LOST in this book reprinting all three issues, but I did not like it. The comic that many consider to be the best of the MAD imitators is a pale imitation, indeed.

Kudos to the artists who use different styles in different stories and use the big-foot approach to some effect, but the stories are poorly constructed, which means that there is an over-reliance on "witty" dialog that is seldom as witty as it needs to be. I don't really blame the book that objects of parody are dated, that is the nature of satire, but nothing here transcends its time and speaks to ideas today. What a disappointment.

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

Collection of the entire three-issue run of a Mad wannabe from the 50s. Andru and Esposito are great, great artists, and every strip in here looks great. Unfortunately, virtually none of them are actually funny.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

i like this A Lot better than the 1950s comic book mad.

[Federico Kereki · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not bad -- but Harvey Kurtzman's early issues of MAD were above GET LOST.