MAD Magazine

Mad is an American humor magazine founded by publisher William Gaines and editor Harvey Kurtzman in 1952. Offering satires on all aspects of American pop culture, the monthly publication deflates stuffed shirts and pokes fun at common foibles. It is the last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed EC Comics line. Publisher Gaines had suffered greatly from censorship, which had literally driven his prior line of EC horror comics from the stands.

External links

• Official Mad website
• All MAD Magazine covers, and listed contents
• The magazine's own semi-spurious "Untold History of MAD Magazine"
• 50th anniversary poster featuring over 100 "Usual Gang of Idiots" caricatures
• MAD Magazine lists, including cover artists, most appearances, and circulation figures
• Origins of Alfred E. Neuman
• Mad Mumblings fan discussion
• Mad Magazine Collector Resource Center
• account by Carl Djerassi of encountering Alfred E. Neuman as Nazi racial propaganda.