#5583664 - 04/07/1203:04 PMRe: Where are the Mad Magazine collectors?
[Re: Doohickamabob]
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Originally Posted By: Doohickamabob
Originally Posted By: Whizzer
I discovered MAD in the 80's when I found some of the old paperbacks in a second hand bookshop. I've often thought about collecting the mags, but haven't gotten round to it yet.
Collecting Mads is pretty economical compared to comics. New (old) collections of Mads keep surfacing all the time, so they are not difficult to get for low ("cheap") prices if you're in it for the long-term hunt. Plus you get to read them again, and it's a testament to their excellent quality control that much of the stuff holds up really well. The real trick is putting together a run of Mads all in grade.
My thoughts on Mad are similar. I last purchased a new issue in 2001. It just was not the mag I remembered. My next door neighbor had quite a few Mad's from the late 50's, and he was willing to let me read them. I read all of the Don Martin stories, before going back to read the rest of the magazines. Thanks to that exposure, it wasnt long before I was shelling out my allowance money to buy an occassional issue myself. As finances permitted, I eventually would up buying every issue for a couple of years.
I recall looking for some back issues in the early 90's, back in those pre E-bay days. Since supply was "limited", to what each store carried, the prices tended to be high, so I did not pick up very many at that point. Once I had delved into comic book collecting, I took my 25-30 issues in to trade for comic books. It was not without some trepidation, as I knew I would eventually miss them. In retrospect I probably should have kept issues 94 (King Kong cover) and 105 (Batman and Robin cover).
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#5594128 - 04/11/1211:45 PMRe: Where are the Mad Magazine collectors?
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Welcome back Kotter, er Klodder issue. The satire on Welcome back Kotter refers to Vinnie and the gang as the "sweatslobs". Who knew that Gabe Kaplan would eventually sit in with the Poker After Dark show a few times.
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Favorite line, and you need to know that the Arnold Horshack character is renamed as "Arnerd Horseshot".
Klodder is reading out the sweatslobs' grades on a recent exam to the vice-principal. Horseshot got a -4, and the VP demands to know how he got a negative?
"He spelled his name wrong. That's '...s-h-O-t', Horseshot."
#5595825 - 04/12/1204:25 PMRe: Where are the Mad Magazine collectors?
[Re: Hepcat]
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Originally Posted By: Hepcat
Originally Posted By: Whizzer
I have added to the paperbacks, and have about 20 in lower grades.
The paperbacks intrigue me even more than the magazine. That may of course be because I don't have any of the paperbacks....
Well, as I say I bought them cheaply from a 2nd hand bookshop. I was probably about 13 and had never heard of Mad mag or the original comic at that time. It was love at first sight and I devoured them. From there I began buying the regular UK version of the mag.
My Mad comic no.4 is one of my favorite books and I need to work on a low grade run of the other comic issues.
Man, I wish I'd bought that no. 24 from Harley!
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Originally Posted By: Whizzer
Originally Posted By: Hepcat
Originally Posted By: Whizzer
I have added to the paperbacks, and have about 20 in lower grades.
The paperbacks intrigue me even more than the magazine. That may of course be because I don't have any of the paperbacks....
Well, as I say I bought them cheaply from a 2nd hand bookshop. I was probably about 13 and had never heard of Mad mag or the original comic at that time. It was love at first sight and I devoured them. From there I began buying the regular UK version of the mag.
My Mad comic no.4 is one of my favorite books and I need to work on a low grade run of the other comic issues.
Man, I wish I'd bought that no. 24 from Harley!
The paperbacks are a great way to read random stuff(cheaply) from old issues. Another plus for me was being able to get books that featured all Dave Berg strips, or all tv parodies for example.
I might just have to obtain an IPad one day.
Who knew that Gabe Kaplan would eventually sit in with the Poker After Dark show a few times.
