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DanHoo said:
I'd forgotten about Mad. I wasn't in to the other comic books but mad was a fun one.
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Reading Mad magazine felt like you were getting away with something, like your parents would have taken it away from you if they actually took the time to look at it. It was of course slightly provocative, but very smart and funny.
 
Ed P said:
I still have the record. You know you're getting old when you know who Mitch Miller was (Sing Along with Mitch, a TV show with the bouncing ball over the lyrics)

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Does that include "Tropical Fish", to the tune of "These are a Few of my Favorite Things"?

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BTW, "Fink Along With Mad" is a play on what, you old timers? There's a hint on Alfred himself.
 
Darren Lebner said:
BTW, "Fink Along With Mad" is a play on what, you old timers? There's a hint on Alfred himself.
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It's a take-off on Mitch Miller, who was the choral conductor on a sing-along TV show that was popular for a couple of seasons. It was a version of at-home karaoke. Lawrence Welk had a highly popular musical show at the time, and there were other singing/variety shows starring Perry Como and Dinah Shore. Like all things trending at the time, he was a popular target for Mad Magazine and impersonators alike.

 
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And lest you get the wrong idea, I never watched that stuff...Like @Steve Hoch said earlier, Mad Magazine was targeted to the youngsters who secretly and subtly made fun of the older generation ("the establishment"). Of course, I thought this was hilarious at the time. WARNING: This may seem vulgar to some.
Belching noises throughout
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and now back to comic books, somewhere in the back of my closet I think I still have a box of my second collection. Wonder how much money is there?
 
As an early boomer, I read a lot of comics in the 50's. My favorites were DC comics and I had a lot of first or early issues of characters. I never threw anything out and had boxes of them. When I went to college, my mother threw them all away. They probably could have put my kids through college.
 
JSaus said:
As an early boomer, I read a lot of comics in the 50's. My favorites were DC comics and I had a lot of first or early issues of characters. I never threw anything out and had boxes of them. When I went to college, my mother threw them all away. They probably could have put my kids through college.
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I didn't want to say this earlier, but that is what my mother did to me. It took me a long time to get over it (if I ever did). It wasn't the loss of the comics as much as the fact that she knew how much I wanted them but that didn't matter to her.
 
Donald Duck was a favorite, especially with Scrooge McDuck, Daisy, Hughie, Dewie and Louie, and the neices, April, May and June.
 
Chris Allingham said:
I remember as a kid going to the magazine section at Safeway and finding the latest Mad magazine. There was always one copy with the inside back cover folded to reveal the Mad fold-in...many were above my understanding at the time, but I liked the creativity and how they revealed themselves. And I also liked Spy vs. Spy. :)

As for comics, I'm sure there were many, but for some reason only Richie Rich comes to mind.
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I also liked Mad, Spy vs Spy, Richie Rich, Dennis the Menace, and
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Steve Hoch said:
I have quite a few of these in my collection. Does anybody else remember this one?View attachment 65172
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I think so. You remember the Rat Patrol?
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