RIP Mad Magazine....maybe?

[LawBeefaroni]

DC Comics confirmed to CNET that Mad Magazine will stop being available for sale on newsstands after issue #9 in August. Starting with issue #10, Mad Magazine will only be available via subscription and direct markets.

In addition, issues after #10 will only feature reprints of classic Mad articles and comics, but with brand-new covers. Mad Magazine will still publish its annual year-end issue, as well as the occasional books and special editions.

Sounds like the end to me.

[Holman]

I thought I read that the reprint issues will only continue as long as it takes to honor current subscriptions, then will cease.

It's sad, but I don't think MAD has been relevant in the internet age. Have they recently had any artists to match the golden era of the 60s-70s?

[Blackhawk]

DC is doing a lot of restructuring. Part of a new organization, new executives, the whole shebang. I see all the news articles, and I still can't keep track of who is in charge of what and who is part of what. They just recently ended several of their imprints (Vertigo is gone as of a few weeks ago, for instance.) Many comics have stopped newsstand sales. It's a messy time for the dead tree business, or for those who make a living charging for what the internet delivers for free.

[Daehawk]

Used to save and buy MAD mags in the late 70s early 80s. Loved Spy vs Spy and the foldable rear cover pic.

[gameoverman]

I remember a Six Million Dollar Man thing they did where in one panel someone was saying "We can make him stronger, faster, better" and there's this nurse leaning over Steve Austin as he lays on the table and she says "Sometimes faster isn't better". I was young enough that I didn't get the joke, but I suspected it had something to do with sex. It stuck in my mind ever since.

I'm pretty sure that was Mad magazine. I sometimes read Cracked but Cracked was viewed as a wannabe by me and my friends. I hope this memory isn't really from Cracked.

[Max Peck]

[gameoverman]

Wow, sometimes I forget the power of internet. That takes me back...way back. Thanks for posting that.

[dbt1949]

I read my first MAD magazine around 1961. It was my aunts copy.

[Z-Corn]

I used to LOVE Mad when I was a kid. I devoured it cover to cover. I subscribed a couple years ago and was bummed out when, even with bifocals, I couldn't see enough to understand the Sergio Aragonés cartoons in the margins.

I started to worry.

[Max Peck]

Wow, sometimes I forget the power of internet. That takes me back...way back. Thanks for posting that.

You can read the whole story here.

[Holman]

I read my first MAD magazine around 1961. It was my aunts copy.

My dad had the full run of MAD magazine in the 1950s comic-book format.

My grandmother threw them out when he went to college.

Also trashed: significant run of very early Superman and Batman comics, probably worth a couple of million bucks now.

[LawBeefaroni]

I read my first MAD magazine around 1961. It was my aunts copy.

My dad had the full run of MAD magazine in the 1950s comic-book format.

My grandmother threw them out when he went to college.

Also trashed: significant run of very early Superman and Batman comics, probably worth a couple of million bucks now.

It's probably little consolation but they're only worth that much because everyone else's mom's threw them out too.

[hepcat]

I read my first MAD magazine around 1961. It was my aunts copy.

Let me guess, you only buy it for the articles.

[dbt1949]

No, my aunt had done in a spread in it.
MAD was quite a bit different then.

[hepcat]

[Kraken]

I remember how hard it was to find a copy whose back cover hadn't been folded yet on the newsstand. There was something really satisfying about folding that cover for the first time.