Where are the Mad Magazine collectors? 10 10

[GomerPyleUSMC]

Here's my furshlugginer first issue of Mad. Nothing special until you open the insides...

 

[FoggyNelson]

Awesome autographs😁😁👏😁😁🆒

[Phantalien]

18 hours ago, GomerPyleUSMC said:

Here's my furshlugginer first issue of Mad. Nothing special until you open the insides...

 

That's pretty epic!   congrats on that find

[OtherEric]

@GomerPyleUSMC That book is a thing of beauty, thank you for sharing it with us.  Did you get the signatures yourself, or did you buy it with the book already signed, or a combination?

[Robot Man]

On 5/8/2019 at 11:19 PM, GomerPyleUSMC said:

Here's my furshlugginer first issue of Mad. Nothing special until you open the insides...

 

Off the hook cool! I did the same thing with my copy. Sadly, I started it a few years after Woody passed away so I have everybody but him.

I have another copy I found in the wild just signed by Gaines.

 

[FoggyNelson]

Mad signatures are cool 🆒🆒 I am going check EBay to see if any CGC SS Series Made there are🤔🤔

[Robot Man]

Here's my Gaines signed MAD #1. Came from a flea market of all places. An un-expected surprise...

Also found an early MAD annual signed by Wallace Wood that wasn't noted when I bought it.

Edited May 12, 2019 by Robot Man

[wpbooks01]

Found my Gaines sig at a used bookstore in Berkeley, CA in a copy of the Mad Reader which was half cover price, or 38 cents. Makes a great bet winner, too when one can cite a stat straight from the horse's mouth! (sorry for blur. No phone only webcam!)

 

[FoggyNelson]

Cool 🆒🆒signed paperback🆒🆒👍

[GomerPyleUSMC]

On 5/10/2019 at 2:10 AM, OtherEric said:

@GomerPyleUSMC That book is a thing of beauty, thank you for sharing it with us.  Did you get the signatures yourself, or did you buy it with the book already signed, or a combination?

Thanks. The Mad 1 was signed by Kurtzman  and Wood in the summer of 1978 at a convention back when the EC revival was all the rage. Years later I visited Jack Davis at his home studio on St. Simons for business and brought the book with me. For his autograph he used a watercolor or calligraphy brush that I thought was unusual at the time. The Elder and Severin autographs came from their home studios by mail. There was a saga that ensued where the book was lost for some time. After giving up hope, I was surprised to see it turn up in the mail... two years later.

Edited May 16, 2019 by GomerPyleUSMC

[Phantalien]

On 5/16/2019 at 3:41 PM, GomerPyleUSMC said:

Thanks. The Mad 1 was signed by Kurtzman  and Wood in the summer of 1978 at a convention back when the EC revival was all the rage. Years later I visited Jack Davis at his home studio on St. Simons for business and brought the book with me. For his autograph he used a watercolor or calligraphy brush that I thought was unusual at the time. The Elder and Severin autographs came from their home studios by mail. There was a saga that ensued where the book was lost for some time. After giving up hope, I was surprised to see it turn up in the mail... two years later.

I am going to be the nosy one.   What brought you to Jack Davis's studio for business?

[GomerPyleUSMC]

On 5/18/2019 at 9:56 AM, Phantalien said:

I am going to be the nosy one.   What brought you to Jack Davis's studio for business?

I was working for the ad agency William Douglas McAdams at the time. We had a client who was not satisfied with the "tone" of the marketing materials and we ended up contacting Gerald & Cullen Rapp to help us out; that's where Jack came in. 

[Phantalien]

8 hours ago, GomerPyleUSMC said:

I was working for the ad agency William Douglas McAdams at the time. We had a client who was not satisfied with the "tone" of the marketing materials and we ended up contacting Gerald & Cullen Rapp to help us out; that's where Jack came in. 

The amount of art outside of Mad Jack Davis did is just immense.    I don't think anyone has even close to a comprehensive list.

[FoggyNelson]

This Mad thread one my favorite to read ❤️

[OtherEric]

8 hours ago, FoggyNelson said:

This Mad thread one my favorite to read ❤️

Wasn't going to bother sharing these, but since you this was your favorite, here we go.  Both in fresh yesterday, I owned both of them when they came out but got them again to fill in my run of Kurtzman's late work on the series.  For all I know I still have my original copies somewhere in storage, but I have not a clue where they might be.  I remember actually typing in the Mad computer program on our Apple IIe back in the day:

[OtherEric]

And one more today.  Almost done with the 80's Kurtzman work; he only did 19 issues when he returned.

For me, Jack Davis will always be the definitive Mad cover artist.  How cool is it that his run on the series continued, on and off, for decades?

[FoggyNelson]

Thanks for sharing OtherEric I had not saw all of these before🆒🆒👏

[OtherEric]

And the last three issues of Mad Magazine with original Kurtzman material I still needed.  I still need 9 of the comic book issues, though.  The 261 is very weird... no fold-in!  Jaffee does get the back cover, though.

[Robot Man]

On 5/20/2019 at 7:20 PM, Phantalien said:

The amount of art outside of Mad Jack Davis did is just immense.    I don't think anyone has even close to a comprehensive list.

Here is a pretty good list of just his album cover art...

[FoggyNelson]

Nice mag Mr Robot👏