Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for March 05, 2023

Humor comes in many forms and come from different ages.

¿Lo que me preocupa?

Me? I ain’t going to worry about it.

Did Alfred E. Neuman ever wear drag? If so, you could get those banned in certain states.

Wish i had saved my old Mad Magazines.

I wore mine down to rags. My dad encouraged me to read them, and he only lightly concealed his Playboys. Otherwise, I never would have read Gahan Wilson cartoons.

My brothers had these and I read them. I always liked “The Lighter Side of…” they were so funny.

Fortunately Humor in a Jugular Vein is available on the web.

I’m assuming they no longer exist?

What, me worry?

I loved these back in the day, especially the back page that you had to fold so that one cartoon became another one.

OMG! I remember those two specific issues! I miss good ol’ Mad and all its characters.

Brings back memories.

I have the first 60 years on CD.

At least they’re not Cracked.

Many an afternoon spent in insanity.

Spent a lot of time in my youth reading MAD, don’t regret a second of it…

Those are probably worth a pretty penny too, Baldo.

My Dad bought them in the 60s and they were read multiple times over the years by three generations, cousins and friends. I brought the collection to my current attic, along with later ones I’d subscribed to & NatLamp.Last year we cleaned out the attic and I found that these are not as funny as they used to be. Also not worth a penny, since they were well-worn and/or not the oldest classics. Still, I love this cartoon. It brings back many memories.

The Memes of our day.

My favorite line ever from MAD, “I’m in love with a girl named Omelet”…

I know there’s an archive site online that has all of the MADs.

JPuzzleWhiz, could you post that link on the upper level of this discussion? I’d love to download these. The early years of Mad were creative and amusing. Both of those faded later on, but I’ll always remember “Bat-Boy and Rubin”!

My sister collected them ,sure wish I had them now

I sold mine off to a book store in the late 80’s long before they were truly collectable. I have a few paperbacks from mall book sales as well as the Mad about the 60’s and the 70’’s. Been to the online but it helps to have the right display media, like a 12" tablet to scroll the pdf.But paper rules. Sorta. For comics, it takes up too much living space and degrades over time.

In my sixth decade of life and STILL read MAD. Have a small stash of vintage editions.

How old is dad? The Clockwork Orange would have been from 1971-51+ years ago, Jaws from 1975.

Archive.org has the entire run of MAD magazine.

I remember the cover of the first issue of 1961. “The last upside down year until 6119.”

I am happy to say that I have 30 years worth of Mad magazines, including both issues shown. Probably not worth much as I bought them to read and reread. And my children grew up reading them as well. When I say not worth much I mean resale. Invaluable to me as I frequently go back and revisit my favorites.

Misogynistic material

Somewhere, up in my attic … ❤️

Mad was brilliantly clever satire and parody. I still have virtually all my Mad magazines from Dec 1973 (#163) through April 1997 (#356). I gave up on it after that issue. There was a change in the kind of humor they were doing. I later learned that they were trying to appeal to a new group of younger readers, as their old readership (despite the presence of hard-core loyalists like me) was dwindling. Hated to give it up, but it was no longer my generation’s Mad magazine.

Often my husband will talk about some movie from when we were young – such as “Charade” as an example. He had seen back when it came out (he is a year older than me, but sometimes it seems like that there is a more of a difference in what we did and what we remember from childhood). I told him that I had not seen it,but knew all about it as I read it in – yes – Mad magazine. (He was not/is not a MAD aficionado and did not read it.)

I recently bought some old MAD magazines. I used to own some of them and remembered the hilarity so it was fun to reread the good ones. I was, however, shocked to see how terribly sexist and racist so much of the writing was back then. Some were so cringe worthy I couldn’t read them. Wow. And we grew up on that stuff. But that was the 60s and 70s I suppose.

Greatest Magazine Ever.

And, since they didn’t take Advertising, they could make fun of Anyone with total freedom.

I remember playing a MAD tabletop game when I was a kid in the 80s. It was sort of a reverse Monopoly, where you had to be the first to lose all your money. I liked it because of the funny pictures and the kind of absurd humour, even though I hadn’t read any magazine.