I wonder what would have happened to Angelo Torres had there not been humor magazines. He was a contemporary of Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta and much of his pre-MAD work looks more like them than work he eventually did drawing TV parodies with characters from the waist up.
A lot of these magazines had artists imitate MAD artists. Here they weren't even trying to pretend otherwise.
I've seen other work by Don Orehek (in the '70s, IIRC). Fascinating to see an utter rip-off of the early Don Martin style. These MAD rip-offs inhabit a sordid underworld all their own. Thanks for your tireless posting of these forgotten knock-offs.
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