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The 500th Edition of Mad! Only 75 Copies

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« on: May 04, 2009, 09:05:10 am »

The 500th Edition of Mad! Only 75 Copies. Last Monthly Edition (Moving to Quarterly Publication) -- Collector's Item
Written and illustrated by The Usual Gang of Idiots
BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)
"It's MAD's 500th issue! And it's jam-packed with just as much stupidity as you'd expect! For starters, we're welcoming back some legendary members of the Usual Gang of Idiots who haven't appeared in MAD for years! And to mark this landmark issue, Sergio Aragones is showing off his 500 (that's right five HUNDRED!) favorite Marginal cartoons! Plus, there's Al Jaffee's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions and the MAD Fold-In! And, of course, you'll find our typical stupidity, mocking the new Wolverine movie, The Jonas Brothers, The Octo-Mom, Google, Man-Boobs and so more! So stop reading and start celebrating –go buy an issue NOW!"

Only 75 copies of this 500th edition of MAD and last monthly copy (before going to a quarterly publication schedule)are available from BuzzFlash. In full, glorious MAD color.

June Edition.

From MinOnline:

Mad #500: Not Dead, Not Worried
By
Steve Smith

Call it yet another sign of magazine industry decline or an example of print's resiliency: Mad magazine issue #500 hits newsstands this week, just as the title reduces its frequency. The anniversary of 57 years in print celebrates the past and also marks the beginning of the book's change from monthly to quarterly publication. Despite the frequency change, the new issue of fresh and retrospective work defies rumors of the book's ultimate demise. “Look for our 1,000th issue in July 2134,” the cover announces.

With circulation declining from a peak of 2 million in the early 1970s to roughly 200,000 an issue today, Mad discontinued two of its spin-off publications, Mad Kids and Mad Classic, earlier this year. The magazine is promising a more timely and robust Web site as a more regular feed of satire from the brand. Competitors National Lampoon and Cracked left print long ago for Web-only existence. Fittingly, the 500th issue of Mad takes a satirical jab at Google, using the search engine's own satellite-view mapping to spy on the company. Wired magazine nabbed an exclusive reprint of the cartoon panel last week.

Mad published an extensive timeline and self-history at its Web site in concert with the 500th issue. Mad was founded in 1952 by comics publisher William Gaines and one of his cartoonists, Harvey Kurtzman, as a satire of comic books in a comic book format. Beginning with issue #24 in 1955, Mad was published as a magazine instead of as a comic book, which gave the legendary editor Kurtzman a larger palette and avoided the restrictions of the industry Comics Code.

Ironically, the legend of Kurtzman, who left Gaines in 1955, is being revived and celebrated during the same season his creation retreats from monthly frequency. Kurtzman went on to publish for Hugh Hefner the lush satire magazine Trump, which lasted only two issues. He then created Humbug, which lasted only a few years in the late 1950s. Both Trump and Humbug are being reprinted in hardbound versions, and a retrospective of Kurtzman's art is being issued shortly as well.
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