Review: Free Retro Fun
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2013
When I was a child my "reward" for behaving myself in the grocery store was a copy of Mad Magazine(or if I already had that month's, Cracked and if I had that, Archie Comics).  As result, I will always have a fondness for Mad, which taught me what a sense of humor is.  This first issue from 1952 is way more retro than the 1980s magazine I grew up with and the parodies are of comic book genres instead of specific movies or show and it seems none of the Usual Gang of Idiots were working there yet, but for free there is no reason to miss this proto issue of Mad, for the cultural history alone.