Showing posts with label MAD Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MAD Magazine. Show all posts

Friday, November 1, 2024

Post-Halloween Hospital Horror Humor MAD "New Movie Monsters from the Medical World!"

We're Enjoying the Halloween Season So Much...

...We Just Can't End Our Celebration Without One More Entry,This Time, to Tickle Your Funny Bone!
Written by E Nelson Bridwell and illustrated by Jack Rickard, this short from EC's MAD #144 (1971) hasn't been seen since a reprint in 1980, so, unless you own one of those 44-year old (or older) issues, this is the first time you've seen it!
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Friday, February 23, 2024

CoronaVirus Comics MAD "Look at Modern-Day Bacteria"

Think our concerns about diseases and a possible plague are something new?
This never-reprinted feature from MAD Magazine #153 (1972) combines humor with medicine and then-current politics!
Among those whom writers Max Brandel & Frank Jacobs and artist Bob Clarke skewer are President Richard Nixon (R), Vice-President Spiro Agnew (R), conservative Presidential candidate George Wallace (I), and the radical liberal Students for a Democratic Society!
(Google them if you're too young to remember!)

Friday, March 24, 2023

MAD "Failing Health Magazine"

Let's make fun of real-life horror...
...by showing those who over-react to the slightest medical problem (and some problems that don't really exist) in a never-reprinted feature from EC's MAD Magazine #159 (1973)!

Scripted by Tom Koch and illustrated by the legendary Jack Davis, this was the sort of spoof MAD did better than anybody else in the humor mag business!

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The only place this story's been re-presented, albeit in digital low-res!
(Make sure you get the revised 2012 version for as complete a collection as possible)

Marvel Comics, The American Cancer Society and the Story So Nice, They Told it Twice!

Actually, it wasn't a "nice" tale, but we wanted an alliterative title... In 1982, Marvel and the American Cancer Society  c...