Mad magazine to end new publications.

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  1. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    After 67 years Mad magazine will cease to publish new material as of August of this year!

    What, me worry?
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  2. I'minmyunderwear

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    i actually thought they had stopped years ago.
     
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  3. soulcompromise

    soulcompromise Member HipForums Supporter

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    I just read the headline on CNN. What a hilarious magazine.
     
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  5. 6-eyed shaman

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    I enjoyed Mad Magazine when I was a kid. I eventually outgrew it because it got too lame. The fold-ins at the back cover, and the comics by Sergio Aragones, were my favorites.
     
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  6. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Back cover fold ins ughhhh why ruin a perfectly good magazine??
     
  7. hotwater

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    Haven't read it in years but loved it when i was kid.

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  8. newo

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    MAD has contained some brilliant satire over the years, but it has always maintained a PG rating and that doesn't cut it anymore. And of course many print magazines are failing due to the internet.

    Goodbye Alfred E. Neuman! We wish you luck in all your future endeavors!
     
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    Trump curse strikes again.. TBH. I thought the shitrag went out of business long time ago. Might of been the 4th grade the last time I seen one and held one. Carter was probably president .. Didnt get the humor .. I was more a Heavy Metal comic fan. Omni was my 1st most read magazine when I was a kid.

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  10. newo

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    [​IMG] The August issue is out so I guess it's the last one. Funny but on their website they're still trying to sell subscriptions!
     
  11. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    When I was a kid my neighbor bought every Mad magazine that came out...and tons of comic books. This was in the 50's so a lot of old original early edition comics like Batman, Superman, and the BlackHawks.
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    I used to root through a three foot high pile of comics for something I liked, then lay on top of the pile and read all day. He had hundreds of comics and Mad magazines.
    In 1969, when I was in college comics began to become valuable so I stopped in to tell him he had a gold mine in his garage.
    But I was a day too late, he took them out in the field and burned them the day before.
     
  12. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Here's the first Mad magazine,​

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  13. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    I just don't even find the illustrations very attractive. Especially the one up there with the open mouth. It's gross. And that kid is just ugly anyway.
     
  14. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    You had'a be there.

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    I'm just so glad I kind of wasn't. :p
     
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  16. 6-eyed shaman

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    I own a reprint of that 1952 first issue. It’s somewhere in my parents’ attic.

    If I recall, Mad wasn’t a satire comic book back then. It was more of a graphic novel magazine.

    Their competitor “Cracked” was a Mad magazine knock-off that I also liked reading. But they became a Buzzfeed website knock off several years ago.
     
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    Some of the funniest stuff was in the marginals. I'm going to miss being able to grab a new copy off the stand.
     
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    I thought this was kind of sad, although I don't purchase it anymore so I'm probably part of the problem. I used to LOVE Mad Magazine when I was growing up though. Would get them fairly frequently.
     
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    I've not read MAD for 20+ yr; however, there was a time during jr. hi & hi skool when I learned to read w/ MAD & learned to remember entire exchanges among characters, because I read them over & over.

    One time in h.s., we had to write a book report in class. I'd read Louis Nizer's My Life in Court & quoted several sentences from it. I got an "F" on my book report because we weren't to have the book w/ us in class, I didn't, but the teacher thought I could not have quoted from the book w/o having it in front of me.
     

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