The First Mad Magazines

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  • čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
  • A video on the first printed editions of Mad Magazine.

Komentáře • 59

  • @emmaduncan2991
    @emmaduncan2991 Před 8 lety +28

    "He now has a chance of winning, the joke is over.." chillingly prophetic.

  • @clownnookie
    @clownnookie Před rokem +9

    You can still subscribe to MAD. Help support them so they can get back to producing new material.

  • @norbertsiewert3917
    @norbertsiewert3917 Před 6 lety +12

    Comics contributed greatly to my reading skills!

    • @dontaylor7315
      @dontaylor7315 Před 3 lety +2

      I remember discovering the word "superfluous" in a comic book and asking my parents what it meant. I remember that other new words came my way via comics but don't recall now what they were.

  • @stepheneinbinder2604
    @stepheneinbinder2604 Před rokem +6

    Young Bill Gaines looked like Allan Sherman.

  • @droflig
    @droflig Před 13 lety +6

    I used to think that Mad became a magazine to escape the comics code, and this nice documentary does nothing to say otherwise, but the truth is a little more complicated. Harvey Kurtzman, Mad's original editor, had always wanted to publish a magazine instead of a comic and had been approached by Pageant magazine to become its new editor. With the pressure on Mad's publisher, William M. Gaines, to retain Kurtzman, Gaines allowed the transformation of Mad from comic to magazine to take place.

  • @dallasradionerd
    @dallasradionerd Před 11 lety +10

    whereis the rest of this vid, makes me miss being young, i had a chance to have the great Harvey Kurtzman sign my first issue here in Dallas, but he was sick that morning, that was a total bummer for a 14 year old kid in love with this stuff, i did meet and get autographs from the great Frank Kelly Freas and Sergio Aragones i will treasure those memories forever, thankx for this vid

  • @MadCollecting
    @MadCollecting Před 6 lety +4

    Nice Documentary. I have heaps of collector videos around this period. EC Comics was gutsy!

  • @jimmyarmijo2252
    @jimmyarmijo2252 Před měsícem

    Man, I collect MAD mags from the 70s. That was my teen years! At antique stores I find them.
    I also collect Tales of Suspense, Tales From The Crypt, ect.

  • @MrRetiredOfficer
    @MrRetiredOfficer Před 12 lety +5

    Good Lord-how much all those comicbooks would have been worth today!

  • @mrmjb1960
    @mrmjb1960 Před 6 lety +3

    Gaines' other comic was "Tales From the Crypt",another "Banned by Washington" Comic! Copies of those a complete series the most,can go for a King's Ransom today!

  • @rodneymarsden3003
    @rodneymarsden3003 Před rokem +2

    There was the influence of war which was really the cause of problems with teens in the 1950s. WW2 ends in 1945 then what happens? A couple of years later you have the start of the Cold War. Five years after WW2 you have the Korean War. It must have seemed that if you don't have actual bloodshed as in the Cold War you have the threat of first atomic and then nuclear weapons build up. Mad was great fun sending up the stuff that actually worried people. In the late 1960s and 1970s you had comix coming out of places such as Berkley in California attacking the build up of nukes. Comix such as Slow Death.

  • @royrice8597
    @royrice8597 Před 2 lety +4

    When kids could still be brainwashed into giving up their MAD magazines!! 🤤🤤🤤

  • @TnseWlms
    @TnseWlms Před 13 lety +3

    Wally Cleaver: I've got this real neat new English teacher. Yesterday he read the class a whole article out of MAD Magazine.
    Ward: Oh? As an example of a modern satire?
    Wally: No, because he thought it was funny.

  • @princeminski47
    @princeminski47 Před 7 lety +1

    Apparently produced by William M. Gaines' relatives. MAD was conceived, written and even laid out by Harvey Kurtzman.

  • @lukelucas8239
    @lukelucas8239 Před 10 lety +7

    History I can use..
    Not a single skip and zero load time..thanks CZcams

  • @TighelanderII
    @TighelanderII Před měsícem

    People started complaining against comics in the late Forties when Crime Comics became a leading genre. In late 1948, the heat must have been great enough for the publisher of "Big Shot Comics" to put a banner on the top of each issue, "Clean Comics for Everyone."

  • @ROCdave5861
    @ROCdave5861 Před rokem

    Alfred E Neuman was originally named Melvin Kovnofsky.

  • @TheJameslehr
    @TheJameslehr Před 8 lety +1

    i paid about $100 for a hard cover bookset of the first (and only) Mad COMICS way back yonder. In the late 1990s, you could get it cheaper in comic book form as reprinted by Russ Cochrane from Prescott, Arizona. RILLY? RILLY? Just about the most HILARIOUS stuff i have ever read!

  • @66bgrs
    @66bgrs Před 11 lety +2

    i think mad did influence a generation of the young and corrupt them mad rock n roll elvis chuck berry switchblades the wild one rebel without a cause betty page... look what has happened since they came out long live these wonderful things!

  • @danjay6783
    @danjay6783 Před 5 lety +2

    Most dropped Mad at about age 15 and went to National Lampoon. Now Lampoon is defunct, and Mad has advertising. By the way, no one seems to spell Alfred E. Neuman correctly. You'd think after years of reading Mad they'd figure out it's a 'u' instead of a 'w'.

    • @peterpiper831
      @peterpiper831 Před rokem

      I always said it as "Noiman" rather than Newman as I reasoned that's how Neuman is pronounced.

  • @TighelanderII
    @TighelanderII Před měsícem

    Re: the cover with a head...
    Too bad Gaines didn't have a print of, "Judith with the Head of Holofernes" by Christofano with him.

  • @TighelanderII
    @TighelanderII Před měsícem

    Any history of MAD Magazine that doesn't mention it's creator Harvey Kurtzman is incomplete.

  • @Melvinshermen
    @Melvinshermen Před 4 lety

    Great

  • @christystewart4567
    @christystewart4567 Před rokem

    Lol, the covers of those detective magazines were far worse than any horror comic book.

  • @vindomramvindomram4394
    @vindomramvindomram4394 Před 5 lety +1

    Time to sneak into those vaults in Washington D.C. if you know what I mean.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak Před 13 lety +4

    Shame they don't mention Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder and the others. Shame!

  • @sparkimoto
    @sparkimoto Před 6 lety +1

    I'm amazed that I got away with buying every issue from about 72-73 without my Dad raising hell with me. He must not have been aware of the adult content. A bit over the top for someone who was in 5th grade such as myself. At that age, I had trouble understanding most of what would have been inappropriate for me, anyway. I do remember an issue from the presidential election that Nixon would win. This issue had a full page picture of all of the candidates and across each was written in bold text: YUCK! I remember being quite perplexed by this as I wondered how anyone could make a choice in the ballot when they all sucked! Needless to say, Mad magazine gave me an early education in politics! I learned that politics made adults act like a bunch of first graders! Makes me think 5th graders might make better, more calculated intellectual choices at the poles than adults. They couldn't do any worse!

    • @dannyhood4007
      @dannyhood4007 Před 2 lety +1

      .That was a little before my time. I do remember tv shows in mad magazine capped on like Mash called ‘Mush’ ‘and Chips’ was ‘Chumps’

    • @mjp96
      @mjp96 Před rokem

      Dad!!? My mother would have hung me!!!!!

  • @nobrainer345
    @nobrainer345 Před 13 lety

    Very interesting

  • @jakeknapp6833
    @jakeknapp6833 Před 5 lety +1

    Also have you watch a video that is like spy vs spy that is like a parody or if the CZcamsr got inpsirations it’s a Minecraft video it is called Steve vs Steve

  • @losaikosavetheearth4215
    @losaikosavetheearth4215 Před 6 lety +1

    Thanks for not giving into Government morals. I wish I had my original issues, though I bought MAD CD PDFs sold at comic stores covering years of issues. I am looking for a complete set of EC Hardcover Slipcase books. I had them, but lost them in a flooded room. Maybe you'll do a 3rd series. Thanks, W

  • @jakeknapp6833
    @jakeknapp6833 Před 5 lety +1

    Hey how come the magazine has to be founded in the 50s no pop culture parody’s yet no spy vs spy why not the 60s that’s when spy vs spy started right

  • @lex3729
    @lex3729 Před 6 lety

    Is Maria Reidelbach related to Alfred E. Newman?

    • @mrmjb1960
      @mrmjb1960 Před 6 lety

      No,it's a cartoon rendering of President Albert Gaines as a Young child.

    • @peterpiper831
      @peterpiper831 Před rokem

      A young Seth Green, like in the Movie
      Can't Buy Me Love, 1987.

  • @TheJameslehr
    @TheJameslehr Před 8 lety +1

    But Still! Allow your mascot, ALFRED E. NEUMAN, to run for PRESIDENT, 2016!

    • @mrmjb1960
      @mrmjb1960 Před 6 lety

      We already have him,as Trump!

  • @ocgmercury
    @ocgmercury Před 5 lety

    Leonard brenner anyone?

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak Před 11 lety

    Haha!

  • @dallasradionerd
    @dallasradionerd Před 11 lety

    Humbug, lol

  • @rockets4kids
    @rockets4kids Před rokem

    2:21 gotta wonder what he thinks about tik tok challenges

    • @night-x6793
      @night-x6793 Před rokem

      I'm confuse how the government banned comic violence but wouldn't ban Tik-Tok idiotic challenges?

    • @rockets4kids
      @rockets4kids Před rokem

      @@night-x6793 The government didn't ban comic books. The Government coerced the industry into self-censorship. Also, you realize that was during the 1950s, right?

    • @night-x6793
      @night-x6793 Před rokem

      @@rockets4kids I didn't said anything about banning comics just the violence in them but I do remember seeing how weird the government was during the 50's that they even push a ban on pinball machines.

    • @rockets4kids
      @rockets4kids Před rokem

      @@night-x6793 A number of countries have banned TikTok, including China itself which uses a parallel platform with internal censorship.

    • @night-x6793
      @night-x6793 Před rokem

      @@rockets4kids I talk about the US and most already know that China has a very long history banning multiple things for stupid reasons but this is more about US history.