Totally Mad
(Click on thumbnail for enlargement) In 1998 I got this 4-CD set containing every issue of Mad magazine published between 1952-1998. All 376 monthly issues, 133 special issues and 12 Worst of Mad issues are included on this out of print set.
The scan quality is only fair, and the application includes a lot of sound effects, movies, radio spots and other dancing baloney I don't care for, but I treasure this out-of-print set, and when I recently bought a Windows machine, it was the first thing I loaded onto it. (The furshlugginer thing doesn't work on Macs!)
My favorite issues are from the 1950s. The Kurtzman-edited issues are, of course, amazing, but so are the earlier Al Feldstein issues, full of insanely detailed Will Elder illustrations. One day, someone -- either Warner Bros (which owns Mad), or some kind souls on the P2P networks, will make the complete run available as high-definition PDFs (My bet is on the latter). Until then, this is the next best thing. $134.95 to $379.95 on Amazon
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For those who want this, it's typically going for a lot less than $100 on ebay. No need to pay the amazon ripoff artists this time.
I got a bit excited at first, cause I've got a copy of this, and I would happily take $380 for it if some fool were willing to pay that much, but fortunately (unfortunately for my purely selfish interests) the ebay market, as good a reflection of the real value of things as we've got in this day and age, knows better.
Ohh wow.
I can't BELIEVE it's worth that much now.
I've gota FIND my copy and get it out again.
BTW, William Gaines (former publisher and founder) has been spinning in his grave.
his Ind pub. company, was NOTED for NEVER ACCEPTING Advertising.
And now they're owned by TIME Warner(AOL)
SIGH..
I gave up my subscription when it happened.
I wish I could go to ALL Black and white again to make up for that.
Markb
Time marching on the way it does, you must be the grandson of the Marc Frauenfelder I knew at Bard College?
Classic mom-threw-'em-out story. Every issue of Mad Comics from issue one. When I left for college, the car wasn't even out of the driveway before my mother made the raid on my room, and threw every one of them out.
Fershlugginer!!
FYI all The Strand has got Will Elder's Mad Playboy of Art with TONS of preeemo Kurtzman/Elder for real cheap, forgot how much xactly, but at least 60% off! and its GLOOORRRRRIOUS!