Like, Mad (Mad Reader 9) by Wallace Wood


Like, Mad (Mad Reader 9)
Title : Like, Mad (Mad Reader 9)
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ISBN : 0451018389
ISBN-10 : 9780451018380
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 192
Publication : First published January 1, 1960

THE NINTH VOLUME IN A SERIES OF REISSUES OF THE CLASSIC MATERIAL THAT MADE AN INTERNATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED NAME OF MAD MAGAZINE Tired? Run-down? Logy? Take this simple test: Drop your present reading material into a glass of water--see how it dissolves into a soggy mess? Now make the same test with a MAD book. Notice how crisp and firm the cover stays--how those bright MAD pages begin to fizz. In just eight seconds, MAD's mind-rotting ingredients paralyze the cerebellum, bringing blessed relief. So remember: When brain-fog strikes, strike back . . . with MAD.

Like, Mad (Mad Reader 9) Reviews

  • Jason

    A fair amount of the humor doesn't translate so well 60 years later, and the paperback format means odd layouts and parts of illustrations lost in the gutter. But I enjoyed it nonetheless, particularly "MAD Eating Utensils."

  • Erik Graff

    "What, me worry?"

  • Barry

    The only source of anarchic humor available to most suburban kids in the '60s and '70s. There was no subversive literature more insidious, more pernicious, more furshlugginer, than MAD. This is one of many reprints of classic material from the late '50s/early '60s, after MAD became a magazine as opposed to a comic. If you grew up with this stuff you know it and love it. If not, I pity you. There are movie parodies ("Sin-doll-ella"), Madison Avenue MAD-vertising rips, wacky rewrites of history, and proposed products that should have been, never could be, or maybe are by now. As an experiment in social engineering it has failed utterly, or maybe it succeeded too well? It's been a long time since the Usual Gang of Idiots came up with this gulag of ridiculousness, and in some ways the World is finally catching up with them. Vootie.

  • Brittney

    Great, as always. Mad will always get 5 stars from me. That is all.

  • Al McCarty

    1960 paperback. Signet. 35 cents.
    Falling apart. Might have to upgrade.
    Don Martin. Wally Wood. Mort Drucker. Jack Davis.
    The usual gang of idiots.

  • FranklinTV

    I think these were a way for MAD to republish stuff from the 50s and 60s in the 70s. So, to a young teen, a lot of the cultural references didn't (and some still don't) make sense. Still, some amusing stuff but nothing memorable.

  • Luigi

    Classic Mad and you thought Facebook invented Like:)