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Topic: It's a MAD World Posted: 10 March 2018 at 12:45 |
MAD magazine was first published by Bill Gaines in 1952 in the USA as a comic book along with editor Harvey Kurtzman. It later became a humour magazine and is still published today. Up to the end of 2017 it only had 4 editors. Originally published by EC Comics it was eventually taken over by DC Comics. Its mascot is a character, depicted below in a presidential bid (one might consider that life has truly imitated (comic) art with the 2016 presidential election), called Alfred E Neuman whose catchphrase is 'What, me worry?'. The writers are credited as 'The Usual Gang of Idiots'.
The magazine has long parodied stamps as well as producing and printing them as inserts in the magazine. This particular sheet, shown as 2 scans, came with The Seventh Annual Edition of More Trash From MAD published in 1964. My particular philatelic favourite is the UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold inverted yellow parody (at the end of the second row) which sympathises with Leonard Sherman who found the original error sheet only for US Post Office to deliberately produce more of the error. After 54 years this folded sheet has stuck to itself! |
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