Posted on 12/22/2014 8:46:56 PM PST by Beowulf9
I'm looking for a particular Mad Magazine from I'm pretty sure the 1960s.
They did movie parodies, and the art was Mort Drucker.
This issue in particular I'm looking for had a characterization drawing of Steve McQueen from the Sand Pebble, Mad's version, The Sam Pebble. McQueen teaching a coolie English. There was a close up drawing of McQueen saying 'clog' and the coolie saying 'crog' then 'c-l-o-g' and 'c-r-o-g'. It was pretty funny.
I bought the issue but that is not in it. So, still looking.
Just wondered if anyone hear remembers this? What issue?
I still buy them occasionally, but they just aren't funny anymore.
Mad was at its best when Bill Gaines was alive.
They were always left-leaning, but they'd really sock it to liberals once in a while.
Now it's just a pathetic leftist rag.
RIP, Don Martin...
Hell, I’ve been looking for their parody of the “Readers Digest” version of Gone With The Wind in, I think, 16 words to cover the entire book.
Please advise.
I’m continually impressed with the breadth of uses for Free Republic. The odd computer questions, job requests, and recipes are to be expected on any public forum, and you do find them here, sprinkled about. But I’m puzzled why you would go to one of the preeminent conservative political websites of the web to ask about a forty-six year old issue of Mad magazine?
These days I'll pick one up, glance at it to see if it's any good, and most of the time put it back on the shelf. The old artist are gone but if you watch the special editions they sometimes bring some of their work back.
I bought one this month that has a previous parody of Columbo. It also has "The Dark Side" cartoons placing other characters in it like Beetle Bailey, Family Circus, Hagar The Horrible, & Dennis The Menace.
I had a two magazine habit. I also read Cracked. It's cover had Sylvester P. Smythe on the cover and listed as Janitor on the inside cover.
No, it's hilarious. Next to Rockwell's little parody of modern art, this was the absolute all time best one I've ever seen...and it was merely a margin drawing in Mad.
Outrageously funny.
Beowulf9,
A few years ago I stumbled upon a box set of
Absolutely Mad,
53 years of Mad Magazine on dvd.
Political satire at its best.
No. I have that one. The picture I remember is not in it. I thought it was that one but it is not.
I’m trying to find out what one it WAS in.
NOT the Sam Pebbles. I have it.
I’d be interested.
Last week they had the movie on, The Sand Pebbles. I actually have never seen it, it’s totally not my sort of movie.
My husband however started watching it, and I told him about the send-up in Mad years ago. I remembered what I thought was one of the drawings. I clearly remember that drawing. I laugh every time I remembered it over all these years.
So I bought it to show him how funny it was, only it was NOT in there!? I now do not know where the one little box I remember that was so funny was.
I’ll contact him and let you know.
I saw the collection once. His dad suggested and encouraged it years ago as an investment.
Thank you. Only interested in the 1960s ones, though.
I agree. I was only interested in “Spy vs Spy”.
I saw one on a magazine rack a few years ago and was surprised they were still around.
My cousin kept them as an investment.
I think he was keeping them to sell as a complete set but will ask him when I contact him this evening.
I spoke to my cousin. He is going to keep them for a while longer. (He is 72 years old so he’d better decide pretty soon. LOL)
Good luck on finding what you’d like.
Merry Christmas!
For instance, yes I own all of the Mad magazines, but finding #1 was a real chore. When I did, it is yellow and falling apart.
Still ran about $600. 15 years ago.
Your cousin's collection would run into the multiple thousands of dollars.
I read once that the hardest issue to find (of any comic, which Mad started as) is #2.
Why? Because, like a pilot episode on TV, if the first one doesn't make it, there isn't going to BE a #2.
Many people will just forget. So poor #2 has its work cut out for it.
And for the record, I'm in my 40's I REALLY don't "get" 90% of what Mad was parodying in 1952.
Ha ha, yeah,Nixon, ha ha, Eisenhower, Ha ha, McCarthy. Hell, a Truman joke might be in there.
Someone 72 years old like your cousin would understand the "jokes".
By the late 60s, Mad was at its prime.
Everyone understood the parodies.
Plus it was just plain fun.
Thanks for sharing that. I appreciate the great info.
You’re right about the tidbits that could be found.
My cousin was on submarines for over 20 years so he didn’t see many for long periods of time. But they were always put in plastic folders and treated as long term “investments”.
If I was him I would look for a buyer and I told him he’s no spring chicken so he needs to get busy.
Thank you for looking into it.
Merry Christmas to you and your cousin:)
The first MAD I ever saw was one of Alfred E. Neuman
as pharoh. it was in the mid 50s and was in the back
window of a parked car, I thought to myself, I got
to read this...Great parady and satire and cool cartoons.
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