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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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."
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!
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'.
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!
Also have you watch a video that is like spy vs spy that is like a parody or if the TH-camr got inpsirations it’s a Minecraft video it is called Steve vs Steve
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
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!
@@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?
@@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 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.
"He now has a chance of winning, the joke is over.." chillingly prophetic.
Comics contributed greatly to my reading skills!
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.
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
Young Bill Gaines looked like Allan Sherman.
Nice Documentary. I have heaps of collector videos around this period. EC Comics was gutsy!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Good Lord-how much all those comicbooks would have been worth today!
Apparently produced by William M. Gaines' relatives. MAD was conceived, written and even laid out by Harvey Kurtzman.
Psychediva 😍❤️🥰🌹 and Maria ❤️😍🥰 hello! Did Mad magazine ever publish a satire on the Highlander movies or extended TV shows? Thank you ladies ❤️
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.
Alfred E Neuman was originally named Melvin Kovnofsky.
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."
History I can use..
Not a single skip and zero load time..thanks TH-cam
When kids could still be brainwashed into giving up their MAD magazines!! 🤤🤤🤤
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!
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'.
I always said it as "Noiman" rather than Newman as I reasoned that's how Neuman is pronounced.
Is Maria Reidelbach related to Alfred E. Newman?
No,it's a cartoon rendering of President Albert Gaines as a Young child.
A young Seth Green, like in the Movie
Can't Buy Me Love, 1987.
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!
Any history of MAD Magazine that doesn't mention it's creator Harvey Kurtzman is incomplete.
Also have you watch a video that is like spy vs spy that is like a parody or if the TH-camr got inpsirations it’s a Minecraft video it is called Steve vs Steve
Time to sneak into those vaults in Washington D.C. if you know what I mean.
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
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!
.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’
Dad!!? My mother would have hung me!!!!!
Shame they don't mention Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder and the others. Shame!
Criminal!!!
Very interesting
2:21 gotta wonder what he thinks about tik tok challenges
I'm confuse how the government banned comic violence but wouldn't ban Tik-Tok idiotic challenges?
@@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?
@@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.
@@night-x6793 A number of countries have banned TikTok, including China itself which uses a parallel platform with internal censorship.
@@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.
Great
Lol, the covers of those detective magazines were far worse than any horror comic book.
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
But Still! Allow your mascot, ALFRED E. NEUMAN, to run for PRESIDENT, 2016!
We already have him,as Trump!
Leonard brenner anyone?
Humbug, lol
Haha!