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Completely Mad
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Completely Mad
Maria Reidelbach. Boxtree. Out of Print. A history of the world's most popular humour comic/magazine. Over 200 b/w and 350 colour photos. Reproduces every Mad cover with an exhaustive detailed history. Soft Cover Part Colour
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Completely Mad
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Completely Mad
Maria Reidelbach. Boxtree. A history of the world's most popular humour comic/magazine. Over 200 b/w and 350 colour photos. Reproduces every Mad cover with an exhaustive detailed history. Hard Cover Part Colour ISBN: 0316738905
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The Completely MAD Don Martin (Boxed Set)
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The Completely MAD Don Martin (Boxed Set)
Don Martin. Running Press, September 2007. The book that no sane person can live without. The first round in a projected series of MAD's Greatest Artists features the greatest of them all. This deluxe two-volume slipcase edition features every single piece of artwork that the late great Don Martin drew for MAD Magazine throughout his career spanning more than thirty years. Includes appreciations of Martin from fellow cartoonists Gary Larson, Matt Groening and others.

A great stylist, Don Martin was loved by his millions of readers for his weird characters and even weirder sound effects, the 'hinged feet' is my personal favourite motif of his. Complete with full color slipcase. 1200 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 10" x 13" (254mm x 330mm) (ISBN-13: 9780762430505)
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The Mad Archives Volume 2

The Mad Archives Volume 2

Written by Harvey Kurtzman; Art by Will Elder, John Severin, Kurtzman, Wallace Wood, Jack Davis, Basil Wolverton and Bernard Krigstein. 2007. This second volume, with cover ...more...

Good Days and Mad: A Hysterical Tour Behind the Scenes at MAD Magazine
Dick DeBartolo, Anne Gaines. Gemstone. Out of Print. A rollicking memoir of high jinks and the zany spirit of MAD and its motley crew. Packed with photos and illustrations. An insiders perspective and intimate portrait of MAD's founder Bill Gaines. Foreword by Anne Gaines. 352 pages. Soft Cover Black & White ISBN: 1560250917

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Harvey Kurtzman Retrospective of a MAD Genius
Harvey Kurtzman. Out of Print. Exhibition catalogue by the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco. 40 pages. Soft Cover Black & White
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MAD About the Fifties
Compiled and Introduction by Grant Geissman. MAD Books, 2005. Founded in 1952 as a ten-cent comic book that parodied other comic books, three years later it was transformed into a twenty-five cent magazine, and proceeded to transform the Gray Flannel Decade of the fifties into the inspiration for some of the most revolutionary humour being produced anywhere in the (then) 48 states. 240 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 6" x 8" (15cm x 20cm) ISBN: 1401207537
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MAD About the Sixties
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MAD About the Sixties
Compiled and Introduction by Grant Geissman. MAD Books, 2005. MAD About the Sixties is a long-overdue collection of material from that seminal humor magazine's salad days. It's a welcome reminder that when MAD was good, it was very, very good: it featured solid writing coupled with great art, month after month. 240 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 6" x 8" (15cm x 20cm) ISBN: 1401207545
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MAD Art
Mark Evanier. Watson Guptill, November 2002. This book is aptly subtitled 'A Visual Celebration Of The Art Of Mad Magazine and The Idiots Who Create It.' It offers a fascinating glimpse into the creative processes that have helped keep Mad the best selling humour magazine/ Comic for over 50 years. Included in this kaleidoscopic outing are such luminaries as Will Elder, Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Don Martin, Antonio Prohias, Sergio Aragones & Wally Wood. There are also examples from Kelly Freas and Norman Mingo, who vividly illustrated many of the classic covers. A book that will appeal to Mad-men & EC Fan-addicts alike. 304 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 8" x 11" (20cm x 28cm) ISBN: 0823030806 and ISBN-13: 9780823030804
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The Mad Archives  Volume 1 (Issues 1-6)
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The Mad Archives Volume 1 (Issues 1-6)
2002. First Edition. Out of Print. No one could have known the scope of its eventual success. In this volume the first six historic issues are reproduced in their entirety. Written by Harvey Kurtzman, with art by Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Will Elder and John Severin! A celebration of fifty years of one of the most popular humour magazine. 224 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 8½" x 11" (21cm x 28cm)

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The Mad Archives Volume 2

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MAD Cover to Cover 48 Years, 6 Months & 3 Days of Mad Magazine Covers
Frank Jacobs (commentary). Watson Guptill, 2000. By 'The Usual Gang of Idiots' with a running commentary by Frank Jacobs. Collected here for the first time in one easy to dispose of volume is an inside look at the outside of MAD. Launched in 1952 as a ten cent comic book, MAD transformed three years later to a twenty five cent 'cheap' magazine. Every cover is reproduced here in full colour showcasing the glorious art of Norman Mingo, Kelly Freas, Richard Williams, Mort Drucker, chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs, and Leonardo da Vinci. Including rare never before seen art, photos and sketches from the world's foremost satire magazine. 400 colour and 50 b&w illustrations. 224 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 8" x 11" (20cm x 28cm) ISBN: 0823016846
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The Mad Archives Volume 2
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The Mad Archives Volume 2
Written by Harvey Kurtzman; Art by Will Elder, John Severin, Kurtzman, Wallace Wood, Jack Davis, Basil Wolverton and Bernard Krigstein. 2007. This second volume, with cover by Kurtz, collects the early issues of MAD COMICS featuring classic material from issues #7-12, including "Shermlock Sholmes," "Dragged Net," and "Little Orphan Melvin"! 222 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 11" (229mm x 279mm) (ISBN-13: 9781401213886)

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The Mad Archives  Volume 1 (Issues 1-6)

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The Completely MAD Don Martin (Boxed Set)

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Don Martin. Running Press, September 2007. The book that no sane person can live without. The first round in a projected series of MAD's Greatest ...more...

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