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As most of you crazy Crivvies will already know, Mad started out as an ordinary comicbook for its first 23 issues, before metamorphosing into a magazine format. You'll have seen these covers before in a four part cover gallery I did a few years back, but I thought it would be handy to re-present them in an omnibus post so that they're all in one place. Enjoy refreshing your memories.
3 comments:
Tuesday's syndicated comic panel Bizarro used the "Picasso chick" from Issue #22. I'm the one who pointed it out in the comments section.
Also, I'm afraid I have to disagree with your declaring pre-magazine format MAD as a "ordinary" comic book. I own a collection volume set of those issues that I reread about every five years or so, and I'm always amazed how much of it still holds up despite it primarily being seventy-year-old topical satire. There's some brilliant stuff here that the passage of time has not diminished--I can only imagine the impact this stuff must of had when it was new.
I would've thought the context made clear that I was talking about the format, not the content. It wasn't yet a magazine, it was an ordinary comicbook - as in the same as other comicbooks, dimension-wise. Then it became a magazine.
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