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Back in the 1970s I had a lot of Mad magazines that my mom threw out along with a number of old wrestling magazines and baseball cards that were “too old to ever be worth anything”
I remember looking at it a few times back in the mid 80s, when I was middle school aged, some of it was OK, but I never liked it enough to get a subscription to it, I do remember though a lot of older people didnt like this magazine, they thought it was pure garbage, and they really didnt want us kids looking at it.
Nowadays though, with almost every parent of middle school kids, being 'helicopter parents', somehow I bet they have restricted their kids from reading it.
Yes, MAD magazine was my introduction to politics, I still like the ones from the 60s for the nostalgia.
Each artist had their own unique style, from the outrageous humor of Don Martin and Al Jaffee to the more reality-based Mort Drucker and Dave Berg, it was like several comics in one.
I can't really say I will miss it though, my interest waned in the 80s, the old crew was being replaced and it just wasn't as good.
I bet I had 100 of the magazines and maybe 40 of the paperback books from the 60s and 70s.
You can still find old school used ones for a reasonable price, I got a couple "100 page supers specials" for $5 each at a comic book store here in my town.
Yes, MAD magazine was my introduction to politics, I still like the ones from the 60s for the nostalgia.
Each artist had their own unique style, from the outrageous humor of Don Martin and Al Jaffee to the more reality-based Mort Drucker and Dave Berg, it was like several comics in one.
I can't really say I will miss it though, my interest waned in the 80s, the old crew was being replaced and it just wasn't as good.
I bet I had 100 of the magazines and maybe 40 of the paperback books from the 60s and 70s.
You can still find old school used ones for a reasonable price, I got a couple "100 page supers specials" for $5 each at a comic book store here in my town.
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Yeah, me too. I think I bought every issue from 1974 to 1979. I also would search used book stores and buy all the back issues I could find from the late 60s and early 70s to add to my collection. But about 1980, I just lost all interest in it. I thought I just outgrew it, but thinking back, I think it was going down hill and that's why I lost interest. That and the fact that I was an adult then. When I had to start paying for them myself, it just didn't seem as important. LOL. I think I still have most of my collection in a box of old magazines someplace. But I don't think I have even looked at them in the last 20 or 25 years.
I'm sure I haven't seen a Mad Magazine in the last 20 years. The few times I looked at a copy at a newsstand in the 80s and 90s, it looked like a shell of its former self. Nothing that made me want to buy it. It's hard to believe it even lasted this long.
Yeah, me too. I think I bought every issue from 1974 to 1979. I also would search used book stores and buy all the back issues I could find from the late 60s and early 70s to add to my collection. But about 1980, I just lost all interest in it. I thought I just outgrew it, but thinking back, I think it was going down hill and that's why I lost interest. That and the fact that I was an adult then. When I had to start paying for them myself, it just didn't seem as important. LOL. I think I still have most of my collection in a box of old magazines someplace. But I don't think I have even looked at them in the last 20 or 25 years.
I'm sure I haven't seen a Mad Magazine in the last 20 years. The few times I looked at a copy at a newsstand in the 80s and 90s, it looked like a shell of its former self. Nothing that made me want to buy it. It's hard to believe it even lasted this long.
Yes, and the price going up to $1.50 and beyond is no longer "cheap."
Of all the great artists I believe Mort Drucker was my favorite, hard to decide, but he was so great with those caricatures from the movies, many of which I saw when they were released, sometimes his drawings looked more like the actor than the actor themselves.
It certainly lost it's edge in the 80s, I used to look at the ones from the 90s and 2000s in the library on occasion and was only marginally amused.
I used to also like the ones from the 1950s, Will Elder:
And I had pretty much every issue from 1968 to about 1975...
P.S. I found the TV show kind of weak too.
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