Review: History began here
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2013
This is where it all started. A simple comic style humor magazine that grew into a part of American culture for decades and still going on.I am writing this review on a monday night, and just today I was at a comic store and I encountered a young mother with her 9 year old son who was going through the boxes picking out old copies of Mad Magazine and some of the paperback books that he was spending his birthday money on. It was like watching myself when I was that age buying Mad books.This 9 year old boy asked for some suggestions and he ended up getting a Don Martin (Kaptain Klutz), Sergio Aragones (Viva Mad), and Al Jaffee (Snappy Answers) paperbacks along with a Mad Super Special with Don Martin Posters (he like many others finds Don Martins work to be his favorite).Well, there was one more Don Martin paperback (Drops 13 Stories) that I purchased for him as a birthday present because I remember how much I enjoyed reading Mad when I was his age. He became a fan of Mad through the new cartoon show, and is now collecting and reading all versions of the magazine.Here it the first issue that was published in the 1950s, but still going strong and attracting and giving humor to a 9 year old in 2013. That is quite and achievement.And it all started with this issue.....