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I own every Mad magazine up until 2009.

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...

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They put out some 60's and 70's paperbacks that were also pretty funny. One had a parody of Bonanza. Yeah when Gaines ran in IMO MAD was at it's best. In 1980 had a Tee Shirt that had "Alfred E Neuman for President You could do worse and probably have" written on it LOL. I also remember in the 1970's I think buying a MAD Magazine that had a plastic record that when you played it each time it was different ending. The first line or two was the same then the rest of the song changed words.

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.

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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.

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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.