Totally MAD: 60 Years of Humor, Satire, Stupidity and Stupidity Hardcover – October 30, 2012

Great biting humor. Brings back old imes.

Love it!

Book was received almost looking brand new. I believe it was rated as good condition so was happy with purchase.

The media could not be loaded. It's not easy to cramp 60 years of MAD content into a 256-page book. This is a good effort.Totally MAD features selected gags that were previously published. This includes spoofs of almost everything from ads, comics, TV shows, movies, to current affairs. My favourites are the movie spoofs. Not all jokes are a hit but the better ones are in the book after filtering. You've got to admired the ingenuity and bravado of MADness. It seems like there's nothing they cannot or don't dare to do -- a middle finger for a cover art, anyone?The several essays talk about Bill Gaines, Alfred E. Neuman and other oddities. Those are really inspiring to read if only to find out more about how they got into trouble. I wished there were commentary from the artists though, which would have made the book even better.A nice touch is the inclusion of 12 cover prints on high quality art paper.My only complaint is on the size of the reprinted pages. Many two-page spreads are featured in a single page of this book. The original pages are about a quarter the size now. It's not easy to read the small text. The reproduced covers that run at the bottom of some pages are a bit small too.It's still a great book for MAD fans.If you're not into MAD, you can treat this as a standalone joke book.(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

Beautiful book

If you loved Mad magazine, you will love this book...

What, me worry? Yes, unfortunately. This coffee-table sampling of 60 years of "MAD" magazine disappoints on a number of fronts: Many of the selected articles are incomplete; the type is often impossible to read without a magnifying glass; and, last but not least, there is not enough Don Martin. There can never be enough Don Martin.Another problem, probably one that could not be helped, is that much of "MAD’s" humor is topical – and topical humor tends to lose bite over time. Marlon Brando jokes from the 1950s don’t quite cut it in 2013.It might have been a better idea to do what Dark Horse Comics did with old issues of "Creepy" and "Eerie," and publish a series of books containing entire issues of "MAD"; if they had done so, I would have been happy to buy editions representing, say, 1964 to 1970. But I don’t want to be too harsh on “the usual gang of idiots,” because there are a lot of funny bits in this 256-page collection, and nostalgia seekers will surely find some nuggets.

Awesome book. Mad was a must read for us kids growing up in the 50's and 60's. Love the great artwork and stories. One of my all time favorites was a takeoff on the old western "The Rifle Man" with Chuck Connors. The Mad version was "The Rifle, Man" and as I recall showed Lucas constantly shooting people for little or no reason. Just hilarious. I don't think that is in this book, wish it was. There's so much jammed into this book that a lot of it is reduced to such a small space that an old guy like me has trouble reading it so make sure you have a magnifying glass handy. That's a small complaint.