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MAD Magazine is a humor and satire magazine that started in 1952 as a 10 cent comic book parody of other comics. For its 25th issue it converted to a 25 cent magazine. It remains popular in the United States.

Each issue features the grinning red-headed mascot, Alfred E. Neuman on the cover, and comic-like articles making fun of recent movies, television series, music, trends, etc. as well as regular monthly features (Spy Vs. Spy, Monore, etc.)

Images for kids

  • Madhk1

    Harvey Kurtzman's cover for Mad #1 (cover-dated Oct./Nov. 1952)

  • Mad24

    With issue 24 (July 1955), Mad switched to a magazine format. The "extremely important message" was "Please buy this magazine!".

  • 8.23.12MichaelBiehnByLuigiNovi11

    Actor Michael Biehn autographing a copy of Mad #268 (Jan. 1987), which parodies Biehn's film Aliens

  • MAD Magazine (no. 21, front cover)

    First cover appearance (issue 21, March 1955) of Alfred E. Neuman in a fake advertisement satirizing the popular mail-order house Johnson Smith Company

  • 11.13.13InsideMadByLuigiNovi23

    Mad creators at a November 2013 book signing for the Inside Mad collection. From left to right: Art director Sam Viviano, writers Tim Carvell and Desmond Devlin, editor-in-chief John Ficarra, and artist Al Jaffee.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Mad (revista) para niños

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