About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Mad, If, NME, Fantastic, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, Bild, Urania, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Advances in Physics, Folk og Land, Laney Tower, Valley News, Science-Fiction Plus, Lion, Syracuse Law Review, Secolo d'Italia, Aperture, Elakhbar, Hyphen, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Past & Present, Freies Wort, Athens News, Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht, Internationaler Teil, Screen, Diabetes, Nebula Science Fiction, Library Trends, Referativny Zhurnal, Frjals joo, India Book House, Perspecta, Rheumatology, Space Science Fiction, Indiana University Mathematics Journal, Gazzetta del Sud, Avgi, Systematic Biology, Alithia, Modern Man, Applied Psychology, Historia, Economic Development and Cultural Change, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Positif, Communication Education, Lines Review, Andhra Pradesh, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, Esti Budapest, The Book Collector. Excerpt: Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century. The last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed EC Comics line, the magazine offers satire on all aspects of life and popular culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures. Its format is divided into a number of recurring segments such as TV and movie parodies, as well as freeform articles. Mad's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is typically the focal point of the magazine's cover, with his face often replacing a celebrity or character that is lampooned within the issue. The first issue of Mad. Art by Harvey Kurtzman. With issue 24 (July 1955), Mad switched to a magazine format. The "extremely impo...
