YOU'D HAVE TO BE MAD NOT TO HAVE BOUGHT THIS MAGAZINE...

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"I don't believe it!" as VICTOR MELDREW would say.  It's now

been almost 20 years since I bought the first issue of this 8 issue reprint

series of MAD - from the era when it was a comicbook rather than a maga-

zine.  Yup, as every true comics fan will know, Mad started life as a comic-

book, in the same format as other 'funny books' of the time.  I already had

these comics in a deluxe slipcase set of four hardback volumes, but there

was something appealing about seeing them in something resembling

their original incarnations, as far as paper quality goes at least.

Well-worth having, and if you don't fancy shelling out big bucks for

the hardback volumes, I'd imagine that these 8 classics should be fairly

easy and - more to the point - inexpensive to track down on eBay.  Even

if you're not consumed with a burning desire to own these great comic

mags, I'm sure you'll all still enjoy seeing the colourful covers.

So - here they are.

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