Mad #38
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Story Behind the Cover," Mad #38 (1958) dives into the fan mail sparked by issue #37’s iconic Winsten ad, featuring the MAD staff in costume. Written by Albert B. Feldstein, Robert Foster, and John Cruz, the issue presents letters from readers including real names like J. Edgar Hoover and Dan Duryea, with a playful nod to the artists behind the cover—Norman Mingo and J. Fred Muggs—whose work helped bring the satire to life.
In this sharp, satirical two-pager from Mad #38, the familiar formats of 1950s TV staples—Dragnet, $64,000 Question, Ed Sullivan Show, What's My Line, The Lone Ranger, This Is Your Life!, and If You Had A Million—are twisted with deadpan absurdity, turning their usual routines into unexpectedly surreal moments. The humor comes from the straight-faced presentation of wildly illogical twists, all rendered in the magazine’s classic typeset lettering style.
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Reprinted in The Worst from MAD #2 (1959), More Trash from Mad #2 (1959), Svenska Mad #2/1961 (1961), The Ides of Mad #S1914 (1961), The Ides of Mad #D2384 (1963), Mad about the Fifties #[nn] (1997), Fighting Mad #[nn] (2004), Mad for Decades #[nn] (2007), Mad's Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker #[nn] (2012)
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