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  5. Too Many Pumpkins
    Too Many Pumpkins
  6. I Was a Third Grade Science Project
    I Was a Third Grade Science Project
  7. Third Grade Pet
    Third Grade Pet
  8. Swine Divine
    Swine Divine
  9. Dogbreath Victorious
    Dogbreath Victorious
  10. Fourth Grade Weirdo
    Fourth Grade Weirdo
  11. The Pumpkin Book
    The Pumpkin Book
  12. Bearhide and Crow
    Bearhide and Crow
  13. Egg Day (USA)
    Egg Day (USA)
  14. Animal Antics from 1 to 10
    Animal Antics from 1 to 10
  15. The Voyage of the Continental
    The Voyage of the Continental
  16. Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All
    Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All
  17. The Gorillas of Gill Park
    The Gorillas of Gill Park
  18. Poultrygeist
    Poultrygeist
  19. Anansi and the Magic Stick
    Anansi and the Magic Stick
  20. Bunny Business
    Bunny Business
  21. I Was a Third Grade Bodyguard
    I Was a Third Grade Bodyguard
  22. April Fool! (Holiday House Readers: Level 2 (Paperback))
    April Fool! (Holiday House Readers: Level 2 (Paperback))
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    Supersnouts!
  24. A Mid-Semester Night's Dream
    A Mid-Semester Night's Dream
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    Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor: From Biblical Times to the Modern Age
MAD - Cover to Cover: 48 Years, 6 Months, & 3 Days of MAD Magazine Covers
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Five Stars Plus
  • Best sight gags ever, although some background needed
  • a must have book for mad readers
  • How the 'usual gang of idiots' spent forty-eight years.
  • BEST BOOK EVER
 MAD - Cover to Cover: 48 Years, 6 Months, & 3 Days of MAD Magazine Covers

Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0823016846

Book Description

Collected here for the first time in one easy-to-dispose-of volume is an inside look at the outside of Mad. Launched in 1952 as a ten-cent comic book, Mad was transformed three years later into a twenty-five cent (cheap!) magazine. Over the years one thing remained constant: Every issue had a cover. And here they are, complete with running commentary by Mad's poet laureate, Frank Jacobs. Join idiot cover boy Alfred E. Neuman as he's depicted by the magazine's greatest cover artists, including Norman Mingo, Kelly Freas, Richard Williams, Mort Drucker, chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs, and Leonardo da Vinci. Including rare, never-before-seen art, photos, and sketches, Mad: Cover to Cover is a fifty-year roundup of Mad humor from its humble inception right up to the present as it celebrates its 400th issue as the world's foremost satire magazine. Hoohah!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Five Stars Plus.......2006-07-23

Among the most enjoyable books of my experience. Just the high quality reproduction of the covers would make this a great book. Add to that a fantastic presentation! Amazingly done.
A richly savory festival of imagination, creativity, insight(cultural, sociological, philosophical, etc.) and, of course, delightful humor and splendiferous transcendental artwork. Lots of charming tidbits including photos, extra art reproductions, etc.
Thanks Frank and The Usual Gang for this inundation of funshine and good cheer!

5 out of 5 stars Best sight gags ever, although some background needed.......2005-03-26

If there are better sight gags than those on the cover of Mad magazine, then I have yet to see them. This book is a collection of the first 400 covers and some of them had me hysterical with laughter. My favorite was the one where Alfred is holding a hard taco shell behind a Mexican dog that is straining mightily. Others were just as funny, although some did require explanation. The producers of the magazine were not above applying a little duplicity when creating the covers.
The only drawback for younger readers will be that knowledge of the current events of the time is a precondition if you are to get the joke. For example, some covers feature political figures, and if you don't know anything about them, the joke is lost. Other covers are spoofs of hit movies of the time, so the explanatory captions are a welcome addition. Having lived through those times, I understood most of them, but there were a few times when I didn't understand the joke until I read the caption.
This book is very funny and you cannot help but be impressed by the quality of the artwork and the zany intelligence that went into the covers of Mad. The producers of Mad constantly lampooned themselves as idiots, but they were without question geniuses.

5 out of 5 stars a must have book for mad readers.......2004-10-13

this book is well designd and gives all the information about the covers over the years, including notes about the spacial covers.
i highly recomand this book to any mad reader.

5 out of 5 stars How the 'usual gang of idiots' spent forty-eight years........2002-11-24

The first copy of Mad I saw was issue 29 in September 1956 (still got it too) and I was hooked. How could a magazine be so funny and be so spot-on with its satire? Easy, just employ the `usual gang of idiots' that's how. I kind of grew out of it when I discovered the National Lampoon, how could a magazine be so funny etc, etc. But I have always had a soft spot for Mad and this book of covers is a super addition to my back issues and other Mad books.

All 399 (up to November 2000) covers are in this well designed and printed book Mostly one or two covers to a page sometimes with Frank Jacobs' commentary and with a lot of the latter covers you get to see the preliminary cover roughs. As the years go by you can see how the covers changed from simple visual gags into ones that are much more graphic and busy because they have to work harder on the newsstand. The ideas are still very funny after all these years though. My favorite is issue 35 (October 1957) a wraparound that celebrated the fifth anniversary with a great painting from Norman Mingo showing a few dozen very famous American merchandising characters seated round a dining table, Alfred's at one end grinning. I would love this as a poster.

I think it is worth mentioning for Mad fans the seven CD-ROM `Totally Mad' set, every page from the issue one thru to December 1998, the interface is very user friendly and the discs have a lot of additional aural and visual surprises.

BTW, Robert Silver's photmosaic book cover, made up from the magazines covers, is stunning.

***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.

5 out of 5 stars BEST BOOK EVER.......2001-08-17

I loved this book , mostly because Im a mad magazine FAN!!! BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!!! GREAT BOOK
MAD Magazine: December 1974 Picture of President Nixon burning a subpoena on the cover.
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    		MAD Magazine: December 1974 Picture of President Nixon burning a subpoena on the cover.
    Various Authors
    Manufacturer: New York: E.C. Pub. 1974
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    Binding: Paperback
    ASIN: B000MTWGFQ
    MAD Magazine: October 1992 Cover has MAD character as the "Gotham City Hair Stylist" styling Batman's hair
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      		MAD Magazine: October 1992 Cover has MAD character as the "Gotham City Hair Stylist" styling Batman's hair
      Various Authors
      Manufacturer: New York: E.C. Pub. 1992
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback

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      Sergio Aragones' Groo the Wanderer #58 : The Idol (Marvel - Epic Comics)
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        		Sergio Aragones' Groo the Wanderer #58 : The Idol (Marvel - Epic Comics)
        Mark Evanier
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        Sergio Aragones' Groo the Wanderer #56 : A Minstrel's Tale (Marvel - Epic Comics)
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          		Sergio Aragones' Groo the Wanderer #56 : A Minstrel's Tale (Marvel - Epic Comics)
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          What Mad Universe
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            		What Mad Universe
            Fredric Brown
            Manufacturer: Bantam Books
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Mass Market Paperback
            ASIN: B000K1V17A
            The Mad Hatter Mystery (A Doctor Fell Mystery)
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              		The Mad Hatter Mystery (A Doctor Fell Mystery)
              John Dickson Carr
              Manufacturer: Dell
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Mass Market Paperback
              ASIN: B000NKN3UQ
              Sergio Aragones' Groo the Wanderer #57 : The Captain of Chinampa (Marvel - Epic Comics)
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                MANIAC RENDEZVOUS (Mad Killer in New York) Avon 3 387 on Cover ( Original Title Was RAIN Before Seven ) Complete & Unabridged, Vintage Cover of Man Smoking with Booze in Chair with Gun as 3 Different People Open Doors ( Exciting Thriller ) (A NOVEL OF TER
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                  		MANIAC RENDEZVOUS (Mad Killer in New York) Avon 3 387 on Cover ( Original Title Was RAIN Before Seven ) Complete & Unabridged, Vintage Cover of Man Smoking with Booze in Chair with Gun as 3 Different People Open Doors ( Exciting Thriller ) (A NOVEL OF TER
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                  Manufacturer: Avon Book, Publishing
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                  ASIN: B000JD9RHA
                  Sergio Aragones' Groo the Wanderer #65 : The Garbage Issue (Marvel - Epic Comics)
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