1001 Mad Pages You Must Read Before You Die (Crammed into 864 Actual Pages) #[nn]

A kid seen from behind, deeply absorbed in an open MAD magazine, sums up the appeal of this hefty 864-page treasury perfectly — there's simply too much good stuff to look away. Drawn from the first 500 issues of America's self-proclaimed #1 humor magazine and written and illustrated by "The Usual Gang of Idiots," this collection makes a genuinely compelling case for its own grandiose title. With a foreword by MAD editor John Ficarra and a blue background collaged with decades of MAD pages, the 2009 volume is a warm, irreverent celebration of the magazine's long run of gleeful satire.