The Worst from MAD #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "If Magazines Carried Comic Strips," Al Jaffee’s sharp satire imagines a world where magazines suddenly feature comic strips—complete with all the absurd, over-the-top melodrama of the medium. Bob Clarke’s expressive art brings the gag to life, while Kelly Freas and Clarke’s cover captures the chaotic spirit of the premise. A 50-cent comic from 1962, it’s a clever, tongue-in-cheek take on media excess.
In the wake of investigations into deceptive practices by television networks and their ad agencies, the agencies are liquidating their most elaborate props at a mad dash of a surplus sale. A young woman browses through a chaotic display of fake news sets, phony celebrity dummies, and other manufactured illusions—all marked down for a fraction of their original absurdity.
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