Posted 2 years ago
VikingFan82
(366 items)
A few more of my MADs. I read that #83 was one of their poorest selling issues in years, because a lot of stores refused to carry it because it was so controversial. The ones that did, the children's parents wouldnt let them buy it. Ironically, on the front it reads "In order to seel products these days, Madison Avenue, Hollywood, television, other publishers...Everybody exploits SEX...But we'd never stoop that low!"
Conversly, #91 was one of their best selling because people actually believed it was their last. The King Kong issue was one of MAD founder Bill Gaines' covers because he was a King Kong fanatic.
If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes



