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Atomic Robo-Kid posted:I really wish Cracked would rerelease their catalog digitally or something. Like its real weird that there's nothing. No paperbacks, nada. modern Cracked would likely see its back catalogue of funny magazines as highly problematic
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Atomic Robo-Kid posted:I really wish Cracked would rerelease their catalog digitally or something. Like its real weird that there's nothing. No paperbacks, nada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracked_(magazine) quote:Cracked was near the center of the 2001 anthrax scare. An anonymous letter containing anthrax powder was sent to American Media Inc. in September 2001, killing one employee. Cracked's offices were still in the same building, and thus the magazine was among the publications that had to be evacuated. As a consequence, the company's archives, containing the magazine's original photographic prints of issues from 1958–2000, had to be destroyed due to contamination.
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Jul 7, 2019 06:01
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A friend of mine works at Mad and I’m sad for him, it’s been a cool job with a lot of history behind it. Shame to see it go really, Mad was a real pioneer with a lot of talent behind it. There’s a lot of talented artists there now but it’s just not enough to keep retreading the wheel and hoping a print magazine legacy can go forever. 
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Jul 7, 2019 06:50
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I'm going to miss mad and I'm gonna hold on to my old copies for all time.
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Jul 7, 2019 07:33
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Here's something you guys might not know but MAD was also published in a lot of European countries. A bunch of the stuff like Spy vs. Spy and Argones obviously worked fine but the there was all the stuff about American politics or the puns that simply didn't work. The solution was to hire local artists to make stuff. It was often way cruder and racier since of most of the people working on it were pretty young and just starting out. There's obviously also the fact that Europeans aren't as prudish I've had this summer issue from 88 lying around since it came out.  
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Jul 7, 2019 08:16
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Jul 7, 2019 09:30
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Did they ever catch this dirtbag? I can't find anything
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Jul 7, 2019 11:07
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Lodin posted:Here's something you guys might not know but MAD was also published in a lot of European countries. A bunch of the stuff like Spy vs. Spy and Argones obviously worked fine but the there was all the stuff about American politics or the puns that simply didn't work. The solution was to hire local artists to make stuff. It was often way cruder and racier since of most of the people working on it were pretty young and just starting out. There's obviously also the fact that Europeans aren't as prudish I saw two foot-high stacks of mint 80s Norsk MAD at Fretex (Salvation Army) just before I went on summer vacation. They were priced at NOK 49,-/$6 per issue.
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Lodin posted:Here's something you guys might not know but MAD was also published in a lot of European countries. A bunch of the stuff like Spy vs. Spy and Argones obviously worked fine but the there was all the stuff about American politics or the puns that simply didn't work. The solution was to hire local artists to make stuff. It was often way cruder and racier since of most of the people working on it were pretty young and just starting out. There's obviously also the fact that Europeans aren't as prudish  This one, according to the copyright small print, is from 1981 and consists of reprints of material from the US versions dating back to 1957(!) along with a few local bits about cricket. "Our secret weapon against the West Indies"  "Cricket Terminology Illustrated"  I have another pretty old one in the box somewhere, with a Mad Max cover. I'll try and dig it out tomorrow night.
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Hoobastank4ever97 posted:Did they ever catch this dirtbag? I can't find anything No they never did. They tried to pin it on some scientist but he turned out to be innocent. I assume it was the CIA or something
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The Kins posted:I have a few Australian MAD Magazines, a couple from the 1980s that I picked up from a second-hand market at some point in my teens and a few I bought monthly around the early 2000s before I kinda grew out of it. This makes about as much sense as anything about cricket does.
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Lodin posted:Here's something you guys might not know but MAD was also published in a lot of European countries. A bunch of the stuff like Spy vs. Spy and Argones obviously worked fine but the there was all the stuff about American politics or the puns that simply didn't work. The solution was to hire local artists to make stuff. It was often way cruder and racier since of most of the people working on it were pretty young and just starting out. There's obviously also the fact that Europeans aren't as prudish The Kins posted:I have a few Australian MAD Magazines, a couple from the 1980s that I picked up from a second-hand market at some point in my teens and a few I bought monthly around the early 2000s before I kinda grew out of it. I had no idea foreign versions differed so radically from the US version. These are rad!
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Jul 7, 2019 15:21
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I always liked the books and super specials that reprinted stuff from the 50s, 60s, & 70s when I was a kid reading them in the mid-80s, because they taught me a ton about history and pop culture before my time, and it was done entirely by mocking and making fun of those things.
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Jul 7, 2019 15:25
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Jul 7, 2019 15:55
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Jul 7, 2019 15:59
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I'm very sad learn of this...via, here, on the Internet. Though I suppose that's what I get for never subscribing. I always bought them full price! Because? I'll tell you. Every single publication I've ever subscribed to personally has folded. I thought it was for the best...
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Jul 8, 2019 05:04
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Man, I'm bummed. I guess the niche new readership is now just on the Internet or only looks at non-translated manga or something. But ages 13 - 25 don't buy magazines. Crazy. Kids these days.
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Jul 8, 2019 05:09
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I kind of miss those men's magazines from the early 2000s. FHM. Maxim. Stuff. I mean they were a bit pointless when internet pornography became prevalent but there's no where to see hi res shots of really famous people almost nude. I mean yeah sometimes you get to see pics of Gal Gadot on the beach while on vacation but the days of professional photos of Stacy Keibler and Jennifer Love Hewitt wearing a teddy are over and that's kind of sad.
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Jul 8, 2019 05:14
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Vato posted:I'm very sad learn of this...via, here, on the Internet. Though I suppose that's what I get for never subscribing. Of course they folded, how else did you think they were gonna fit in the mailbox.
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Sleeveless posted:Of course they folded, how else did you think they were gonna fit in the mailbox. You son of a...
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There was a story in one of the Mad XL issues (which were loving awesome) about Bill Gaines being on a trip to France or somewhere in the 80s and picking up a copy of the local version of the magazine, and he completely flips his poo poo when he sees an illustration on the back cover of some dudes having a conversation while standing at a urinal. Something about how he hated 'gross-out' humour I think?? Good thing Tom Bunk waited until a few years after he died to really start doing his thing I guess 
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The Big Word posted:There was a story in one of the Mad XL issues (which were loving awesome) about Bill Gaines being on a trip to France or somewhere in the 80s and picking up a copy of the local version of the magazine, and he completely flips his poo poo when he sees an illustration on the back cover of some dudes having a conversation while standing at a urinal. Something about how he hated 'gross-out' humour I think?? Very Basil Wolf...no, what's his name? You know...Shoot. He drew such lovely ugly pictures.
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Jul 8, 2019 10:15
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Basil Wolverton! Mainstay of the 50s comic book era. His son Monte is an active political cartoonist (the 'I looooove death!' guy).
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Jul 8, 2019 10:22
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The Big Word posted:Basil Wolverton! Mainstay of the 50s comic book era. Nooooo...that's his kid? I'm stunned. For real? I mean, yes, I can try to look that up but wowsers. That's crazy.
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The Big Word posted:Basil Wolverton! Mainstay of the 50s comic book era. That absolutely had to be the same guy that did Wacky Packages, right?
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Yeah, him and Wally Wood and a few of the more comix-y guys.
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Jul 8, 2019 10:42
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I may be too young to remember the "golden era" of MAD or even notice a decline in its quality, but middle school me absolutely lived on the magazine. I think at one point my parents simultaneously subscribed to the original magazine, MAD Classics, and MAD Junior or whatever the elementary school version was just because I couldn't get enough. It was pretty much my gateway into "adult" humor before I figured out how vast the Internet was or learned that South Park existed, and learning about culture, pop culture, and humor of decades past from the Classics issues and the couple of books I got probably wouldn't have happened at such a young age if it wasn't for MAD. I may have outgrown it around the time I began high school and discovered socializing is good, but this cornerstone of my adolescence shutting down still hit like a punch to the gut. drat.
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Golden Era MAD is anything you read from ages 7-12ish. This includes the reprints of the 70s-80s poo poo you randomly came across.
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FilthyImp posted:Golden Era MAD is anything you read from ages 7-12ish. This includes the reprints of the 70s-80s poo poo you randomly came across. In my case, I was 10 and my uncle had reprints of all the old 50s comics. He thought they got too radical when the 60s rolled around.
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I had a copy of “Mad About the 60s” and I thought it was great. I remember really liking this parody of Dr. Seuss characters that was in it
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My two favorite Mad covers, both from before my time:  EDIT: This one always makes me laugh too:  First Mad I ever read was a paperback from 1961 that belonged to my Mom when she was a kid:  First issue I ever bought: 
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Jul 8, 2019 22:00
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I need a poster of this one.
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Jul 8, 2019 22:35
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Kinda hope I still have those paperbacks of Fighting MAD and Spy vs Spy I bought at the library when I was a kid. Full of 60’s humor printed in the 70’s.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:My two favorite Mad covers, both from before my time: I always appreciated the meta-ness of this one 
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Mad magazine is one of those things that Boomers like and they get befuddled that younger people don't understand their 50 yr old references
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LinYutang posted:Mad magazine is one of those things that Boomers like and they get befuddled that younger people don't understand their 50 yr old references "What, don't they teach you about Lawrence Welk in school?"
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i was born in 1990 so i learned a lot about older pop culture through simpsons and mst3k. mad magazine collections just pointed at vague ideas like "drive in theaters" and "questionable sexual politics".
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azurite posted:I need a poster of this one.
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LinYutang posted:Mad magazine is one of those things that Boomers like and they get befuddled that younger people don't understand their 50 yr old references Boy, they're really sockin' it to that Spiro Agnew guy! He must work there or something.
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I grew up in a red state with exactly the sort of family you'd expect to find in one, so it was pretty cool to read Mad constantly putting the boots to right-wing shitbirds like Reagan, Jesse Helms, Edwin Meese, etc. I didn't appreciate it fully at the time, but it definitely sowed some seeds. There was also an article I vividly remember, but was too young to appreciate, about all the humiliating and inevitable ways your body will malfunction as you age and damned if it wasn't dead on. There was a pretty steady theme in Mad of "life is a parade of futility and indignity, so you might as well laugh." Gutter Phoenix posted:I always liked the books and super specials that reprinted stuff from the 50s, 60s, & 70s when I was a kid reading them in the mid-80s, because they taught me a ton about history and pop culture before my time, and it was done entirely by mocking and making fun of those things. This was also my experience; the reprints were not only very funny, but a pretty valuable cultural education.
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