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The entire collection could be worth $50 max, but probably less. On the other hand I have some first edition science fiction magazines, which I'm not sure about, but I think could be relitivly valuable. At some point I should think about selling it all off, but I'm not ready to do it now.
Many of the earliest issues were/are insane/fascinating... to me anyway. I have them all on an old DVD collection. Bill Elder is my favorite. I must find a way to rip them to a HDD for easier viewing.
I will always miss the subscription tags: "Suitable for framing....or wrapping fish"..... or "Why kill yourself, just because you missed the last edition of MAD?"
I was a girl and I started reading it in about 5th grade. I understood the satire perfectly.
I think the first time I saw a copy of Mad was in about the 6th grade. But I got really hooked on it by my 7th grade Basic Skills Reading teacher. She would look for anything that would get us interested in reading. Including letting us read her copies of Mad in class for reading comprehension practice. I think it worked. When I started her class I was borderline illiterate. By the 8th grade I was getting Cs in a regular reading class. I guess I owe my literacy to mad Magazine. LOL.
LOL Newsstands? I can't even remember the last decade I spotted that magazine anywhere.
We still have bookstores - including multiple Barnes and Nobles - with extensive magazine racks. Plus grocery stores and drug stroes (there seems to be a Walgreens and CVS every three blocks) with magazine racks with dozens of titles.
Not too long ago, I saw MAD in the magazine rack at Publix (leading grocery store chain in Florida). I even bought one just for old times sake (I discovered MAD when I was in high school in 1974, and was a regular reader until I graduated from college in 1981). Can't say that I will miss it, but it was enjoyable. Their movie satires were spot on! Once I had to do a report on a movie for a high school class, so I chose The Sting. By this time, the movie had been out for awhile, so MAD had already done the satire. I went to the moviehouse to see the film, and the scenes were almost just like in the satire! I could have saved money and just done the report from the satire! (Not really, but it did help in understanding what was going on).
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I must find a way to rip them to a HDD for easier viewing.
(Not really, but it did help in understanding what was going on).
