Article 76DEW MAD hits 600 issues; still, thankfully, hilariously juvenile

MAD hits 600 issues; still, thankfully, hilariously juvenile

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Ruben Bolling
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MAD Magazine published its 600th issue this week, and celebrated with a gorgeous cover (and back cover) by the reigning champ of MAD cartooning, Sergio Aragones. Aragones's first appearance in the magazine was in issue #76, published in 1963.

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It's quite a milestone for a publication that started in 1952 as a comic book, and as a way for Harvey Kurtzman to write humor for EC Comics, instead of the research-heavy, time-consuming war comics he'd been writing. - Read the rest

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