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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Greasy Mad Stuff by MAD Magazine NEET STUFF Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Greasy Mad Stuff by MAD Magazine NEET STUFF. Between Elvis and the Beatles was MAD MAGAZINE. the only thing that had an influence on my generation & the only thing we had any respect for. "WHAT? ME WORRY?" -Alfred E Neuman. The Mad Time Capsule. Women in Whiskey Ads. The Night Peter Gone Cracked (TV Satire) VERY GOOD++/-FINE Some very minor softness overall to covers from being read, handled and stored. Minor wear to cover edges & slight stress at spine. Please refer to scanned images- they are accurate and have not been edited or corrected and, as always, are worth at least a thousand words. THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS: Wally Wood, Kelly Freas, Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Don Martin, Bob Clarke, Joe Orlando, George Woodbridge and others (more or less). MAD is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine. It was widely imitated and influential, affecting satirical media as well as the cultural landscape of the 20th century, with editor Al Feldstein increasing readership to more than two million during its 1970s circulation peak. The magazine is the last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed EC Comics line, offering satire on all aspects of life and popular culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures. Its format is divided into a number of recurring segments such as TV and movie parodies, as well as freeform articles. Mad's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is typically the focal point of the magazine's cover, with his face often replacing that of a celebrity or character who is lampooned within the issue. 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Please refer to scanned images- they are accurate and have not been edited or corrected and, as always, are worth at least a thousand words. Use Artist or Character name in store search to find more stuff. Mad is known for the stability and longevity of its talent roster, billed as "The Usual Gang of Idiots," with several creators enjoying 30-, 40- and even 50-year careers in the magazine's pages. According to the "Mad Magazine Contributor Appearances" website, more than 800 contributors have received bylines in at least one issue of Mad, but only three dozen of those have contributed to 100 issues or more. Al Jaffee has appeared in the most issues (479 as of October 2014). The other three contributors to have appeared in more than 400 issues of Mad are Sergio Aragonés, Dick DeBartolo, and Mort Drucker; Dave Berg, Paul Coker and Frank Jacobs have each topped the 300 mark. (The list calculates appearances by issue only, not by individual articles or overall page count; e.g. although Jacobs wrote three separate articles that appeared in issue #172, his total is reckoned to have increased by one.) Please "BOOKMARK" or "FOLLOW" us to stay informed and you really should "LIKE" our FB page: BIT COIN Accepted: Please Visit our sister shops for more quality collectibles: QUALITY COMICS AMERICA has been, since 1976, a primary source for vintage books, comics, baby boomer toys, ephemera, memorabilia & collectibles. Dedicated to preserving American Pop Art & Pop Culture artifacts. Please "Follow" or Bookmark QUALITY COMICS AMERICA here on etsy because we will be adding hundreds of similar Limited and First Edition books like this one. Don't miss a one by joining us at: More NEET STUFF can be found on etsy by visiting these teams or using the appropriate tags listed below: dc comics, marvel comics, justice league, batman, superman, superhero, comics, marvel, stan lee, excelsior, comic books, geek, nerd, anime, geekery, comic book, disney, disneyana, mickey mouse, vintage, antiques, ephemera, gvs team, gotvintage, memorabilia, collectibles, 70s, art, book, rare, paper, magazine, photography, graphic.poster, mag, vmm, weekly, monthly, magazines, periodical, mid century, promotional, vintage toys, vintage ephemera, vateam, retro, vbteam, vintage books, booksellers, pop culture, pcp team, pop culture team, steam punk, music, 1950s-80s inspired, mod, punk rock, rockabilly, psychobilly, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. My daughter says this a week after she’s been told the classic “Pete and Repeat” joke. You know this, right? Joker: “Pete and Repeat sat on a log. Pete fell off. Who was left?” Rube: “Repeat.” Joker: “Okay, Pete and Repeat sat on a log…” For days, my daughter has told this joke to anyone within earshot. Now, for the first time, she actually understands it. “That is kind of funny,” she says. I agree. I taught her the joke, which I’d forgotten until I unearthed my copy of Tomfoolery: Trickery and Foolery with Words by Alvin Schwartz . Culled from a century of American folk humor, the book’s chestnuts range from droll to vaudevillian. Often, the book instructs you to injure your friends. These jokes are decidedly not-nice. Some are even a little wicked—the literary equivalent of Wile E. Coyote catching fire , or, if this reference is lost on you, Ren slapping Stimpy , or a Minion saying “bottom.” But my daughter’s slow-uptake reminds me of myself at her age—knowing that words or pokes are supposed to be funny, but not understanding why. As she reads, she stumbles over references to a daily life that looks nothing like her own: Finns fighting Russians, trains and harbors, rotary dials, Prince Albert in a Can. (Honestly, what is Prince Albert in a Can?) All the same, she’s riveted. And she’s more than ready to try her jokes on all of us. This makes me wonder: why? If we don’t get the joke, why read it—or tell it? What could possibly be the pleasure? For snappy answers, of course, I turn to the books I loved most, but understood least, as a child: my collection of Mad Magazine paperbacks. What, Me Worry? Mad magazine paperbacks consumed hours of my grade school attention. My collection—about 30 books— was inherited from a number of older boys. Greasy Mad Stuff, 1963. A side note: Recently, on the first day of my humor-themed literature class, when asked what made them laugh, student after student said, apologetically, “I have the sense of humor of a twelve year old boy.” “Why are we apologizing?” I asked. “And why do only twelve year-old boys get to laugh at gross, obnoxious things?” Since the semester just started, we’re still getting to the bottom of it (heh, heh, bottom). But (heh, heh, but) my students’ confessions remind me that even as a child, I knew there was something rude about my favorite books. They were not a joy I disclosed. As a kid, and as a girl in particular, reading my stack of Mad Magazine paperbacks felt sneaky. Like I was getting away with something. Like a hobby not to mention at slumber parties. Of course, bucking the social order is the point of Mad , which parodied everything from advertisements to politics to family relationships to movies. No target was safe, not even Mad books themselves (which were “garbage”) or their readers (who were “clods” and “idiots”). Every grandiose plan of the status-seeking was punctured by the pens of cartoonists Don Martin and Sergio Aragonés. Even stealth could get you blown to bits, as I learned from “Spy Vs. Spy.” The Lighter Side Of…I’m Not Exactly Sure. Passed through generations of boys, originally published in 1950s and 60s, the books were, frankly, puzzling. For example, the opening piece of 1959’s The Voodoo Mad describes “How To Be a Mad Non-Conformist.” In a nutshell: Conformists wear glasses and smoke pipes, enjoy “Technicolor movies,” and “read banal best-sellers.” Ordinary Nonconformists play bongos, grow beards, and read “boring literary journals.” Mad Nonconformists wear pith helmets and opera capes and read “the Roller Derby News.” What did any of this mean to me, a child of the 1970s and 80s? What was a Roller Derby, or, for that matter, a literary journal? What was the John Birch Society? Why was everyone so irritated by teen-agers? Was it really so easy for women to lose their bikini tops? According to Mad , book clubs were for men and bridge clubs were for women.
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