BABE Of The DAY - EMILY PROCTER...

I remember hearing about EMILY

having a saggy, furry old cloth cat called

BAGPUSS, but that may be another Emily.

I'll refrain from speculating on the condition

of this Emily's pu... oo-er, I'd better not say

that - you lot all have filthy minds and are

 bound to totally misconstrue it.

YOU'D HAVE TO BE MAD NOT TO HAVE BOUGHT THIS MAGAZINE...

Images copyright DC COMICS

"I don't believe it!" as VICTOR MELDREW would say.  It's now been almost 20 years since I bought the first issue of this 8 issue reprint series of MAD - from the era when it was a comicbook rather than a magazine.  Yup, as every true comics fan will know, Mad started life as a comicbook, in the same format as other 'funny books' of the time.  I already had these comics in a deluxe slipcase set of four hardback volumes, but there was something appealing about seeing them in something resembling their original incarnations, as far as paper quality goes at least.

Well-worth having, and if you don't fancy shelling out big bucks for the hardback volumes, I'd imagine that these 8 classics should be fairly easy and - more to the point - inexpensive to track down on eBay.  Even if you're not consumed with a burning desire to own these great comic mags, I'm sure you'll all still enjoy seeing the colourful covers.

So - here they are.