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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.
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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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