S'Neerlands MAD

The current Mad there is edited by friend of the show Ger Apeldoorn. This version, #194, from about 1986, supposedly enraged American publisher William M. Gaines for actually including a condom in the issue. They seem to be a bit more permissive in other countries. It came out around the time "safe sex" was all over the news.

Thanks again go to Michael Sullivan for providing copies from his vast collection of foreign issues.

The cover apparently says “Buy Safe, Read Safe, Drink Safe, Stop Alfred” and on the bottom “There was once...” “Berenzeik, you never forget”. I guess it's a parody of an ad campaign with the man asking “Your place or mine?” with the idea that they're going home together and it's really an AIDS clinic. What AIDS clinic has revolving doors, I don't know. This is from the contents page, advertising a gift for every fifth subscriber. This strip is called “Buy Safe”. I initially thought this was a reference to then-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. The silent stuff's the best because you don't have to translate it. “At the Club” I'm not sure if “Willy Lohmann” is a pen name or not. The heading of the letters pages. This was the cover for Mad #271.

Monkeys on the Moon

I did this before Newt Gingrich's Moonage Daydream

SICK #40, 1 of 4

I've got a bunch more issues of SICK and CRACKED. Might as well share them with the rest of the world.

Cover by Vic Martin

art by Bob Powell

Parody of Honey West drawn by Angelo Torres. I don't think this is the same Bob Elliott from Bob & Ray.

For a while, the mascot wore a suit of armor because they didn't want their mascot to look too much like Alfred E. Neuman.

When they started, they advertised in various comics also edited by Joe Simon.

More to come on Thursday.

Esquire Cartoon Album 1-28

Gilbert Bundy

Howard Baer

Howard Baer

Bo Brown

Here was a Richard Taylor cartoonI already posted.

Artist unknown.

Robert Holley

Mischa Richter

E. Simms Campbell

Richard Taylor

Ben Roth

E. Simms Campbell

Jay Irving

Raeburn van Buren

Lick It and Keep It ratings

Calvin and the Colonel, 4 of 4

Concluded from Monday.









I had a video clip, but I guess the poster wouldn't let me embed it. Look up 'Calvin and the Colonel' on YouTube.

Scoop Scuttle

This is from Daredevil Comics #18, August 1943




From Ibis the Invincible #5, Fall 1946




From Ibis #6, Spring 1948. It's from the British edition, which is why it's two colors.