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Originally Posted By: DiceX
My regular issue run goes from #44 to present and I'm only missing 3 books in the middle. The run is otherwise complete in that I have every alternate or variant copy of every issue.
My Super Specials are complete from 1 through 57 and I'm only missing a handful through present.
I also have a lot of foreign issues including the first British issue and first Quebec issue. I also have a very large run of the Australian issues.
Additionally I have almost full runs of all the offshot titles, including More Trash, Follies, Wost From, Collector Classics, Gross Outs, XL, etc, etc, etc. Also a lot of the big books.
I'd like to end up with full runs of everything, and I have a pretty good jump on it.
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Also, I have a handful of dupes if anyone wants to work out some trades for books I need.
I'll probably end up letting go of all the foreign issues as I'd rather just focus on the US stuff. If anyone has any interest in those, I'm sure we can work out some trades. I have a seriously impressive chunk of foreign issues.
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How about this? An unauthorized game made by Transogram in 1960. EC sued Transogram and won. They changed the box to cover up the toothless mouth of the Alfred looking guy.
#4179921 - 08/04/1003:48 PMRe: Where are the Mad Magazine collectors?
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DoohickamabobDoohickamabob
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Originally Posted By: DiceX
My regular issue run goes from #44 to present and I'm only missing 3 books in the middle. The run is otherwise complete in that I have every alternate or variant copy of every issue. My Super Specials are complete from 1 through 57 and I'm only missing a handful through present. I also have a lot of foreign issues including the first British issue and first Quebec issue. I also have a very large run of the Australian issues. Additionally I have almost full runs of all the offshot titles, including More Trash, Follies, Wost From, Collector Classics, Gross Outs, XL, etc, etc, etc. Also a lot of the big books.
Cool collection photo! So a few questions -- did you consciously decide not to collect Mads #1 through #43? Too expensive? Just curious. I had a similar plan early on, but then I found a great Craigslist lot deal on the early issues and couldn't pass it up.
That's great you have the first Britain and Quebec issue. I hadn't seen the Quebec one before. By the way, anybody here can look up the foreign issues at a site called http://collectmad.com/. I just found out about it the other day and love it! Some of the foreign Mad covers are really cool, with alternative-reality Alfred E. Neuman paintings.
#4179933 - 08/04/1003:53 PMRe: Where are the Mad Magazine collectors?
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DoohickamabobDoohickamabob
FACT if I stop posting, trillions and trillions of transistors would be out of work.
Registered: 03/18/09
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Originally Posted By: DiceX
How about this? An unauthorized game made by Transogram in 1960. EC sued Transogram and won. They changed the box to cover up the toothless mouth of the Alfred looking guy. Still a cool game.
I would say that EC had a pretty convincing legal case there. (I wonder if Mad ever sued the 1970s band Man, which used an Alfred image on their album covers?)
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Originally Posted By: Doohickamabob
Originally Posted By: DiceX
My regular issue run goes from #44 to present and I'm only missing 3 books in the middle. The run is otherwise complete in that I have every alternate or variant copy of every issue. My Super Specials are complete from 1 through 57 and I'm only missing a handful through present. I also have a lot of foreign issues including the first British issue and first Quebec issue. I also have a very large run of the Australian issues. Additionally I have almost full runs of all the offshot titles, including More Trash, Follies, Wost From, Collector Classics, Gross Outs, XL, etc, etc, etc. Also a lot of the big books.
Cool collection photo! So a few questions -- did you consciously decide not to collect Mads #1 through #43? Too expensive? Just curious. I had a similar plan early on, but then I found a great Craigslist lot deal on the early issues and couldn't pass it up.
That's great you have the first Britain and Quebec issue. I hadn't seen the Quebec one before. By the way, anybody here can look up the foreign issues at a site called http://collectmad.com/. I just found out about it the other day and love it! Some of the foreign Mad covers are really cool, with alternative-reality Alfred E. Neuman paintings.
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Originally Posted By: DiceX
Originally Posted By: Doohickamabob
Originally Posted By: DiceX
My regular issue run goes from #44 to present and I'm only missing 3 books in the middle. The run is otherwise complete in that I have every alternate or variant copy of every issue. My Super Specials are complete from 1 through 57 and I'm only missing a handful through present. I also have a lot of foreign issues including the first British issue and first Quebec issue. I also have a very large run of the Australian issues. Additionally I have almost full runs of all the offshot titles, including More Trash, Follies, Wost From, Collector Classics, Gross Outs, XL, etc, etc, etc. Also a lot of the big books.
Cool collection photo! So a few questions -- did you consciously decide not to collect Mads #1 through #43? Too expensive? Just curious. I had a similar plan early on, but then I found a great Craigslist lot deal on the early issues and couldn't pass it up.
That's great you have the first Britain and Quebec issue. I hadn't seen the Quebec one before. By the way, anybody here can look up the foreign issues at a site called http://collectmad.com/. I just found out about it the other day and love it! Some of the foreign Mad covers are really cool, with alternative-reality Alfred E. Neuman paintings.
Mad #1 is the first MAD comic. Mad #24 is the first MAD magazine (which is exactly what I stated).
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