Mad Magazine: History

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 07/05/2019 at 17:38 • Filed to: None

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phenotyp > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/05/2019 at 17:46

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Man, Spy vs Spy was my jam, when I was a kid. 

jimz > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/05/2019 at 17:53

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that “Skimpy” looks like a Wacky Packages card.  I have a whole deck of them from the 1991 run.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jimz 07/05/2019 at 18:05

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Yup; that’s what it is. My brother and I bought and traded those in the 70s. I associate them with Mad, though I can’t be sure the two are connected. 

jimz > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/05/2019 at 18:23

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My set has things like Boozco syrup, Stench Dressing, Scrawny paper towel, Old El Gaso re-refried beans, and the like.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/05/2019 at 18:31

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It’s not “dead,” it’s mostly dead. Subscription, direct sales,  and online will still be available. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/05/2019 at 19:23

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I heard a radio story on NPR that said it was out. I haven't looked at 1 in probably 35 years...

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/05/2019 at 19:29

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Typical media hype. I’ve seen them at the comics store but haven’t seen them on the news stand in years. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/05/2019 at 19:37

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I might have heard it wrong. They restarted like a year ago and set up a new office, but the magazine didn’t take off sufficiently, is how I heard it.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/05/2019 at 19:45

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

Mad Magazine is effectively ending its 67-year-long run. Issues of the satirical magazine will continue being published, but all the material will be recycled, except for end-of-the-year specials. Here’s editor Al Feldstein in 1982, telling NPR’s Noah Adams about the mission of the magazine when it launched in the early ‘50s.

This is the transcript of the story I heard today:

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/04/738791472/mad-magazine-shutters-after-67-years

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/05/2019 at 19:59

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“... MAD will be pulled from its traditional home on newsstands across the U.S. and be exclusively sold through subscription and in the direct market—a.k.a. speciality and comic book stores, like the vast majority of DC’s comics output is already.” -  https://io9.gizmodo.com/mad-magazine-is-basically-dead-1836104170?amp-73GcNVQBmg4oDinCQhxGVeZjgmXj6Rh1TBonjOTgNmUp7Aneey97vBHg7MiLeLKk

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/05/2019 at 21:17

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NPR > Gizmodo

*wink, wink*

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/05/2019 at 21:52

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:)