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In reply to the discussion: Who got Mad magazine growing up? [View all]TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)32. And who here played the boardgame?
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I used to buy it at the candy store/newsstand. Never had enough $$$ for a sub.
PoliticAverse
Apr 2012
#5
i got that then started getting a mag by natl lampoon (forgot the name tho)
leftyohiolib
Apr 2012
#8
Yeah, right about 2000, Mad started taking ads. Right about the same time they went color.
TheMightyFavog
Apr 2012
#28
It was instrumental in developing my loathing for advertising, jingoism, and other bullshit
Tom Ripley
Apr 2012
#16
If you can, get the "Best of the 70s" Collection to view "The Silent Majority" magazine parody.
HughBeaumont
Apr 2012
#34
I always summarized "articles" from my big brother's Mad magazines in school when I was little.
Still Blue in PDX
Apr 2012
#38