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Mad Magazine comes to an end

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Buz
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Mad Magazine started waaaaay back in the 1950s with satire aimed at the youth. As a kid I actually subscribed to Mad Magazine in the 1990s and very early 2000s and loved it. My love for reading Mad's demented humor helped me to battle dyslexia.

It's very sad that Mad Magazine is ending.

Did you read Mad Magazine? Are you an Alfred E. Neuman fan?
Unknown User
Oh no.
CKC
The General's Daughter
Rick_Valley
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I loved Mad Magazine when I was a kid. I didn't realize it was still around. Bill Gaines and Sergio Aragones were my childhood heroes. I knew they were completely warped and I loved them anyways.
Gil_Renard
I'm not for everyone
Sad news. Don Martin and Mad Magazine was hilarious.
scottob1234
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Well my day is ruined now.
Beffer
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Quote by fuzzy1954

WTF

I hear they are planning on going the "online route"






My uncle actually has this original MAD issue in his comic book collection. Issues 1-23 were in comicbook form before they changed to magazine format.
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So so sorry to see this go by the wayside
Guest
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Very Sad. Although, I guess most magazines are ending.



I remember buying this copy at an airport when I was very young. Satirical humor appealed to me. I wish I would have kept all my old Mad Magazines.

Being from a small town, I didn't have access to these things, but my rich grandparents took me travelling every year. So I loved all those airport gift shops. I always loved MAD Magazine.

I've been wondering for years how this magazine has stayed alive.

I would love to collect the MAD magazines from my childhood.


I still have magazine prescriptions(national Geographic) , but this is a dying industry.
Buz
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I still have magazine prescriptions(national Geographic) , but this is a dying industry.



I also still subscribe to National Geographic. I have always loved National Geographic. It is educational and entertaining as hell. A former Editor & CEO of National Geographic is an alumni of my high school and once the QB of the football team, my team, just a few decades before me.

I used to subscribe to Esquire, but grew tired of it. There was a lot of tips on how to care for your suits and dress shirts and good ways to pack them for business trips.

I sometimes subscribe to Sports Illustrated. I think I signed up to get it through football season.

I occasionally pick up Men's Health at the newsstand or The Smithsonian Magazine, sometimes various History type magazines, and I occasionally grab a Newsweek. There is just so much online now, but reading something, print on paper is more relaxing and easier on the eyes.

As a kid, I would tack the funniest Mad Magazine centerfolds on my wall. Interestingly, my dad told me he subscribed to Mad as a kid.
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Quote by Buz


I also still subscribe to National Geographic. I have always loved National Geographic. It is educational and entertaining as hell. A former Editor & CEO of National Geographic is an alumni of my high school and once the QB of the football team, my team, just a few decades before me.

I used to subscribe to Esquire, but grew tired of it. There was a lot of tips on how to care for your suits and dress shirts and good ways to pack them for business trips.

I sometimes subscribe to Sports Illustrated. I think I signed up to get it through football season.

I occasionally pick up Men's Health at the newsstand or The Smithsonian Magazine, sometimes various History type magazines, and I occasionally grab a Newsweek. There is just so much online now, but reading something, print on paper is more relaxing and easier on the eyes.

As a kid, I would tack the funniest Mad Magazine centerfolds on my wall. Interestingly, my dad told me he subscribed to Mad as a kid.


I collect rare comics so maybe now I can start to collect Mad as well. It was never really made as a collectors item which means that they will probably make very good collectors items.

I had to stop buying muscle and fitness because I had hundreds of them. And moving around the country with boxes of heavy magazines is a pain. I can get national geo online but my grandma still buys the prescriptions for me. She's 86 and I don;t have the heart to tell her that I don;t really need them. Still good Jeopardy material though.
dlcalguy
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I'd never seen Mad in England before, but this cover caught my eye. Mad #107.
I bought it and was hooked.
Mad changed my whole demeanour forever.
I loved the movie spoofs like Botch Casually and The Somedunce Kid.
'Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions' taught me to be much more snarky.
I learned to draw Don Martin cartoons.

I don't mourn its impending death, though. It hasn't been what it was since William Gaines left and so many of the fine artists and writers from the 60s retired or passed away.
Buz
The Linebacker
I once had the pleasure to meet Jack Davis, one of Mad's original artists before. He has since passed away. Davis also illustrated the cover of Time Magazine and TV Guide more than any other artist.