MAD Strikes Back - Softcover

Gaines, William M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345281918 ISBN 13: 9780345281913

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1978

Synopsis

Beginning in '55, William M. Gaines began presenting reprints of material for Mad in black-&-white paperbacks, the first being The Mad Reader. Many of these featured new covers by Mad cover artist Norman Mingo. This practice continued into the 2000s, with more than 100 Mad paperbacks published. Gaines made a special effort to keep the entire line of paperbacks in print at all times, & the books were frequently reprinted in new editions with different covers.Mad also frequently repackaged its material in a long series of "Super Special" format magazines, beginning in '58 with two concurrent annual series entitled The Worst from Mad & More Trash from Mad, which later became the Super-Specials. These reprint issues were sometimes augmented by exclusive features such as posters, stickers &, on a few occasions, recordings on flexi-disc & comicbook formatted inserts reprinting material from the comicbook era of the magazine.

About this title

From Library Journal

These are the first four of five scheduled facsimile editions of the original MAD paperbacks from the 1950s written by "the usual gang of idiots," as the publication professed. Love it or hate it, MAD has been read by everyone, and Alfred E. Newman is one of the 20th century's most unlikely cultural icons. Some of the material might be a tad dated (parodies of long-gone comic strips and TV shows like Howdy Doody), but funny is funny and this is. The MAD reprints are great pieces of Americana and essential for pop culture collections. If you don't buy these, then you're.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345281918
• ISBN 13: 9780345281913
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback