[Humour] Any other old gits used to buy / collect mad magazines ?

[Binney on acid]

During my mis spent college days, I used to collect 'Mad' magazines. Remember the one, with Alfred E Newman on the front cover every month ? The American humour was groundbreaking, and the artwork was phenomenal. I had the entire 381 volume set in my loft, and decided to sell them, because they were not being read. I declined an offer of £200 for them, because I thought that it was derisory, and decided to give them to the local hospice shop, because I knew that they employed an eBay expert, who would obtain a decent price for them. A couple of months later, I received a letter from the hospice, thanking me for the £65 that they'd sold them for. I can't deny, I was livid. The magazines were virtually mint !
Did / does any of the older NSCers remember being captivated by this crazy publication ?

 

[dolphins]

Yep, I used to get it a lot. I also got the occasional Cracked (or was it Crack'd?) which was an imitation and not as good.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I remember doing that fold on the last page thing

More of a Fat Freddie's Cat fan from another well known series of comics

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Somewhere I have a set of CD’s containing every magazine. I think it’s called “Totally Mad”

I still have some paperbacks, this being my favourite

 

[Monkey Man]

As a kid I used to enjoy buying the occasional copy. Some of the American humor went over my head but I enjoyed a lot of the cartoons and one-liners, many have somehow stuck in my mind for decades.

The parodies in the British edition were a bit hit-and-miss, I recall. I remember when they did Minder and they portrayed Arthur Daley with a cigarette (rather than a cigar) in his mouth. I'm still quite angry and upset about this.

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

I must have been about 11 or 12 when I discovered Mad courtesy of my older and much cooler cousin. I'm sure I didn't quite get a lot of the US humour, but it was an enjoyable read and made me feel quite grown-up at the time.

 

[schmunk]

I'm sure I didn't quite get a lot of the US humour,

humor

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Mad was always too American and alien to me growing up. I bought a 1936 copy of Magnet comic/magazine (Billy Bunter/Greyfriars) for a quid from a charity shop a few years back, and it’s now worth...about a quid. Also bought some tatty WW2 era Beano comics from NSC’s own Jam the Man.