Vintage 3 Mad Magazine Books 1966-67-68 - $15, $10, $10 Introduction
Mad magazine produced successfully the voice of the counter culture of North America in the 1950s, challenging reality against the desired controlled surface appearance of society.
1ST BOOK; RAVING MAD $15.00
Mad Magazine wrote: “A realistic children's book … for realistic children” in its introduction of this book. This is the original Canadian issue (same content in USA issue.)
BOOK DATA: Title: Raving Mad ; Editor: Albert Feldstein; Publisher: Signet Books; © 1961,1966 EC Publications; book number D2864; 1st printing April 1966; Printed in USA; softcover; 192 pages; 10.6 x 18 x 1.4 cm; weight 141.7 grams. Precedes ISBN – reissued Sept 1971 with ISBN 0141058113
CONDITION: all pages intact and bound; no tears; marks on inside cover and title page; covers creases, tears; spine portion missing from bottom; all clean pages ; fully legible.
2ND BOOK; QUESTIONABLE MAD $10.00
In this book Mad magazine points out the reality behind television, ads, politics, the need for this book and wrote “We find the need for this paperback book questionable! … Which is exactly why we call it The Questionable Mad (mainly because we're not answerable to anybody!) Subjects included: Mad Investigates the Sordid Business of Gambling; Celebrities' Wallets - Frank Sinatra; Dream Girls; The Birth of a Madison Avenue Brand Name; Mother's Day Cards from Substitute; Mothers; The Lighter Side of Smoking; Typewri-Toons; The Mad Book of "Modern" Fairy Tales;
If Comic Strip Characters Were as Old as Their Strips; A Mad Guide to "Do-It-Yourself" TV Repairs; A Mad Guide to Party Conversation; The Lighter Side of Summer Vacation; Spy Vs. Spy; The Subtle Science of Packaging.
BOOK DATA: Title: Questionable Mad ; Editor: Albert Feldstein; Publisher: Signet Books; © 1962,1967 EC Publications, numbered D3158; 2nd printing 196; Printed in USA; softcover; 190 pages; 10.6 x 17.3 x 1.3 cm; weight 127.5 grams. Precedes ISBN – reissued Sept 1971 with ISBN 0141058113
CONDITION: very good overall; all pages intact and bound; no marks on pages, no creases on covers, spine creases, some wear spots on front cover and top and bottom of spine, clear printing, fully legible.
3RD BOOK: BURNING MAD $10.00
Subjects included: Movie Dialogues we'd Like to Hear, Misery is …, How a Best Seller is Born, The Mad Baseball Primer, Father's Day Cards, On The Beach, Lighter Side of Summer Camp, Motorcycle Cops, If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Normal People, Psychoanalysis by Mail, Spy vs Spy, Mad's Report on Progress, The Lighter Side of Parents.
BOOK DATA: Title: Burning Mad ; Editor: Albert Feldstein; Publisher: Signet Books; © 1963,1968 EC Publications, numbered P 3610; 1st printing 1968; Printed in USA; softcover; 193 pages; 10.6 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm; weight 142 grams. Precedes ISBN – reissued Sept 1971 with ISBN 0141058113
CONDITION: very good overall; all pages intact and bound; no marks on pages, no creases on covers, spine creases, some wear spots on front cover and top and bottom of spine, clear printing, fully legible.
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