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Mad Magazine 1952 series Also called Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad
Show Covers only	Sales Rank #74 See Top 2,500 Publisher E.C. • Ages_7-12 Ages_13-16 First Issue #1 - October 1952 Last #550 - April 2018 Continued in Mad Special Mad Magazine was the top humor and satire magazine of the 1950s and 1960s and one of the biggest selling magazines for young men and boys. It started to lose its influence in the mid 70s, when it lost the satire monopoly to magazines like the National Lampoon and TV's Saturday Night Live. An inexpensive way to read older issues is to get Mad Specials, which reprinted early issues. Summaries provided by Doug Gilford's Mad Cover Site


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	We have 98 of the 550 issues. Click to view # 31 34 39 40 41 42 45 46 47 51 54 55 57 58 60 62 71 74 78 80 88 90 91 92 96 97 110 122 123 124 129 131 158 160 164 167 168 181 201 203 218 221 235 238 252 254 257 258 261 263 265 266 269 270 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 293 305 308 318 319 322 327 336 337 338 341 342 345 347 352 355 404 408 409 410 424 425 426 427 428 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 441 442
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Mad #31

Stock image	Published: Cover Price: Summary:	Feb. 1957 $ .25 The New Marylin Marone. Field & Scream. Newspaper Items Treated Differently. Why I Write Poetry - Ernie Kovacs. Ode to Stanley's Pussycat. Don Martin - Future TV Ads. Greeting Cards. What They're Saying Around the Solar System. What's all this Jazz about Jazz? - Al "Jazzbo" Collins. Ink Blot Tests. Don Giovanni. Why the 35mm Camera Replaced the Box Camera. Orson Bean Opens His Family Album. Real Ad for Mystery Books. Back Cover -- Travel Stickers.	Overstreet Estimates They don't include NM+ Those are ours.
			Near Mint + Near Mint - Very Fine Fine Very Good Good	$ 828.00 $ 460.00 $ 204.00 $ 102.00 $ 68.00 $ 34.00

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	Poor	-> 6 months			$ 3.89
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Mad #32 - #33
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Mad #34

Stock image	Published: Cover Price: Cover Artist: Summary:	Aug. 1957 $ .25 Norman Mingo Coats of Arms. Wedding Album. Future TV Ad. Bob & Ray -- Mr. Science. Success Story. Future Drive-Ins. Modern Furniture by Dave Berg. The Mad Dog's Shopping Mart. Baseball is Ruining Our Children. Collegiate Whimsey. Products and Props for TV Commercials, Inc. Orson Bean's "The Two Chinese Fellas who go to an American Restaurant" Routine. The Spitball Contest. TV Guise. Picture-Phone Backdrops. Back Cover -- Picture Postcards.	Overstreet Estimates They don't include NM+ Those are ours.
			Near Mint + Near Mint - Very Fine Fine Very Good Good	$ 540.00 $ 300.00 $ 132.00 $ 66.00 $ 44.00 $ 22.00

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	Fine photo	-> 6 months			$ 74.47

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Mad #35 - #38
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Mad #39

Stock image	Published: Cover Price: Cover Artist: Summary:	May 1958 $ .25 C.C. Beall Typewriters to Fit Your Trade. How to Make America's Kids Science Conscious. Scratchpad Doodles. The Suburbs are on Their Way Out! Woodman, Spare that Tree! Shakespeare Up-To-Date. Sneaky Advertisements. Opera Record Albums. High School Paper: The Neuman H.S. Black and Blue. Commemorative Stamps. Accidental Inventions. Party Games. Why I Changed My Job. The Window Trimmer. Bob & Ray -- Big Big Earth. TV Scenes We'd Like to See. Mad Dogs and Their Owners. The Saturday Evening Pest. Back Cover -- Windshield Stickers.	Overstreet Estimates They don't include NM+ Those are ours.
			Near Mint + Near Mint - Very Fine Fine Very Good Good	$ 405.00 $ 225.00 $ 105.00 $ 54.00 $ 36.00 $ 18.00

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	Very Good - photo	> 6 months			$ 45.98
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	Poor	-> 6 months			$ 6.12
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Mad #40

Stock image	Published: Cover Price: Cover Artist: Summary:	July 1958 $ .25 Kelly Freas Initials That Describe the Name. Mad Trading Stamps. Pizza Pie. Outdoors with Don Martin. Eccchh, Teen Age Son of Thing. Strangely Believe It! Solving College-Overcrowding. Inside Story (Famous Stomachs). Pravda Translated. Summer Vacation Guide. Future "Of-The-Month" Clubs. Coast-To-Coast for $16.75 (including meals) How to Read a Chamber of Commerce Folder. Andy Griffith -- What it Was, Was Football! Bob & Ray -- The Cold Cereal War. TV Scenes We'd Like to See. Back Cover -- Sailem Cigarettes.	Overstreet Estimates They don't include NM+ Those are ours.
			Near Mint + Near Mint - Very Fine Fine Very Good Good	$ 405.00 $ 225.00 $ 105.00 $ 54.00 $ 36.00 $ 18.00

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	Poor	-> 6 months			$ 6.20
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Mad #41

Stock image	Published: Cover Price: Summary:	Sept. 1958 $ .25 Camp Counselors. The Mad Primer. Don Martin at Large. How to Put Out an Imitation of Mad. Rare Old Magazines. Go West, Old Format -- Go East, Old Western. Snob Appeal vs. Slob Appeal. The New, Improved, Rotten Circus. How to Play Golf. One Day's Advice Columns, The Next Day's Headlines. Strangely Believe It! The Wrong Lions. Boating. Bob & Ray -- The Count-Down Man. The National Osographic Magazine. Back Cover -- Chesterfind Cigarettes.	Overstreet Estimates They don't include NM+ Those are ours.
			Near Mint + Near Mint - Very Fine Fine Very Good Good	$ 342.00 $ 190.00 $ 90.00 $ 45.00 $ 30.00 $ 15.00

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	Good +	> 6 months			$ 31.14
	2 inside pages missing,

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Mad #42

Stock image	Published: Cover Price: Summary:	Nov. 1958 $ .25 What if You Did What They Told You On TV? Mad's 1958 Pigskin Preview. Don Martin -- A Nameless Story, On the Bowery, The Great Bank Robbery. Big Cars. Danny Kaye -- I'm Five. Strangely Believe It! Not So Far From Wrong Spelling Errors. 25 Cent Children's Books. Mad Mood Music. Credits and Professional Names for the Common Man. Houses to Match Your Personality. Bulletin of Alfred E. Neuman University 1958-59. Bob & Ray -- Baseball Report. Scenes We Never Got to See. Back Cover -- Miss Clairold.	Overstreet Estimates They don't include NM+ Those are ours.
			Near Mint + Near Mint - Very Fine Fine Very Good Good	$ 342.00 $ 190.00 $ 90.00 $ 45.00 $ 30.00 $ 15.00

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	Good + photo	-> 6 months			$ 25.36
	Fair +	> 6 months			$ 15.46
	4 inside pages missing

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Mad #43 - #44
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Mad #45

Stock image	Published: Cover Price: Summary:	March 1959 $ .25 Inferial Blend Whiskey Ad. Awards for "Worsts" of 1958. Body-Building and Weight-Lifting. Don Martin -- Fish Story. Don Martin -- Professor Bleent in Africa. Don Martin -- In an Amusement Park. Guide for Novice Drivers. If Comic Strip Artists Drew Editorial Cartoons. The George Washington Advertising Agency Inc. It Pays to Read the Label -- Mama Mia. Photos of Poetry in Motion. New Cars Every Year -- "Planned Obsolescence" Tattooing Gets a Shot in the Arm. TV Commercials to Match the Show. Business Valentines. Gook (magazine parody). Real Ad -- Goldbrick Cuff Links. Back Cover -- SweatHard - Portable Oval Bathtubs.	Overstreet Estimates They don't include NM+ Those are ours.
			Near Mint + Near Mint - Very Fine Fine Very Good Good	$ 342.00 $ 190.00 $ 90.00 $ 45.00 $ 30.00 $ 15.00

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	Very Good - photo	-> 6 months			$ 29.39
	Fair +	-> 6 months			$ 12.41
	Top third of cover is missing.
	Poor	-> 6 months			$ 4.86
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Mad #46

Stock image	Published: Cover Price: Cover Artist: Summary:	April 1959 $ .25 Kelly Freas Sunday Evening Television Roulette. Authentic Sounds in Stereo. Don Martin -- The Suicide, On Choosing a Book, On Picking Flowers. Modern Auto Accidents. How High-Class Magazines Can Use Low-Class Pictures. Western Weapons of the Future. The Hip Persuaders. How to Choose and Train Your Master. Mad's Modern Handy Phrase Book For the American Tourist. Modern Architecture. If Famous Authors Wrote the Comics. Cut-Rate Success Symbols. Movies are Emptier Than Ever. The Happy Endings Weren't So Happy Samforized. Back Cover -- RGA Victim Color TV.	Overstreet Estimates They don't include NM+ Those are ours.
			Near Mint + Near Mint - Very Fine Fine Very Good Good	$ 342.00 $ 190.00 $ 90.00 $ 45.00 $ 30.00 $ 15.00

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	Fair +	-> 6 months			$ 12.93

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Mad #47

Stock image	Published: Cover Price: Cover Artist: Summary:	June 1959 $ .25 Kelly Freas Cover Writer: Frank Jacobs. Combined TV Shows. Mothers Day Cards from Special People. Don Martin -- The Crosstown Bus, The Fishermen. How to be a Mad Non-Conformist. Little League. The Battle of the Credit Cards. The Professor Lectures on Space -- Sid Caesar. Jack and Jill as Retold by Various Magazines. Future Halls of Fame. The Greatest Missile Ever Built. Movie Posters for Every Type of Audience. Pressure Can Report -- Bob & Ray. The American Mad Cross First Aid Handbook. Back Cover -- Soft-Weave 2-Ply Tissue by Scotch.	Overstreet Estimates They don't include NM+ Those are ours.
			Near Mint + Near Mint - Very Fine Fine Very Good Good	$ 342.00 $ 190.00 $ 90.00 $ 45.00 $ 30.00 $ 15.00

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Before there was a Saturday Night Live, The Onion, or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, there was Mad Magazine.

For two generations of adolescent boys, this was the irreverent, satirical hot spot in the American cultural world.

In a population of 180 million in the 1950's, Mad's circulation topped 1 million copies per month, with a readership of over 3 million.

Its success was widely imitated, but never surpassed in its first 25 years. Sick magazine, Plop!, and Cracked magazine all tried, without success, to come close to the biting satirical wit of Mad. If you ever want to study American culture in the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's or 1980's, back issues of Mad is the place to go for the counter-culture's take on then current events.

Founded in 1952, early issues featured the writing of top comics and comedians from all media. Ernie Kovacs, an early of star of TV, and Bob & Ray, the great radio comedy team, all wrote for Mad, as did Charles Schulz who created 'Peanuts', Jules Feiffer, Wil Eisner, Danny Kay, Stan Freberg, and Sid Caesar. For many years it was THE place to be seen by the elite comedy superstars.

Mad had a near-monopoly stranglehold on political and social satire in the 50's through 70's. In fact, in 2009 The New York Times wrote, "Mad once defined American satire". If you want to understand the roots of American comedy today, Mad really is required reading.

If it was a social issue in America, Mad dissected it with more depth and bite than Saturday Night Live or the Daily Show combined.

For teenagers growing up from 1952 to 1975, it was clearly the most important reading in your life if you were a skeptic, politically or socially aware, or if you wanted a career in comedy.

Looking at any back issue today reminds me of my rebellious teenage years, which many people will say were the best years of their lives. So, if you're looking for a gift for someone who has "everything", transport them back to their youth. I'm telling you, an old Mad Magazine from the time they were 10 to 14 years old, can't be beat.

Or if you're looking for a full perspective of American society from 1952 to today, Mad Magazine is the place to start.

If you're on a budget, you can read reprints of Mad in Mad Specials, Mad Follies and More Trash from Mad, which are all much less expensive than the original Mad Magazines.

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