This also meant Kurtzman suffered the bad creative and financial timing of departing before the magazine became a runaway success.

After 38 bloody campaigns against the Mafia, Bolan became the leader of the Stony Man organization, working with Able Team, Phoenix Force, Hal Brognola, April Rose, Aaron ( The Bear ) Kurtzman, and Jack Grimaldi.

Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952.

To retain Kurtzman as its editor, the comic book converted to magazine format as of issue # 24 ( 1955 ).

Regular contributors included Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Will Elder, George Evans, Harry Harrison, Graham Ingels, Al Williamson, Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Kamen, Bernard Krigstein, John Severin, Joe Orlando and Frank Frazetta, along with editor / artists Harvey Kurtzman and Al Feldstein.

Gaines converted Mad to a magazine in 1955, partly to retain the services of its talented editor Harvey Kurtzman, who had received offers from elsewhere.

Kurtzman left Gaines ' employ a year later anyway and was replaced by Al Feldstein, who had been Gaines ' most prolific editor during the EC Comics run.

In the fall of 1956, shortly after the departure of Mads founding editor Harvey Kurtzman, Drucker found his way to Mad.

These included Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Vaughn Bodé, Frank Kelly Freas, Harvey Kurtzman, Mike Carlin, editor Marv Wolfman and executive editor Roy Thomas.

Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman spotted the word printed in the Polish language section of a multi-languaged " Instructions for Use " sheet accompanying a bottle of aspirin, and Kurtzman, who was fascinated with unusual words, decided it would make an appropriate but meaningless background gag.

Kurtzman would spearhead more humorous publications such as Humbug and Help !, but he never again succeeded in recapturing the magic that he had fostered and enjoyed as the editor of Mad.

Help !, a magazine published by former Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman, published two stories featuring Fritz, including the character's first public appearance in January 1965, " Fritz Comes on Strong ".

Harvey Kurtzman ( October 3, 1924, Brooklyn, New York – February 21, 1993 ) was an American cartoonist and the editor of several comic books and magazines.

In the early 1960s Alverson was an assistant editor ( under Harvey Kurtzman ) of Help!

Clarke was one of the artists who took up the slack after original editor Harvey Kurtzman left Mad, taking two of its three primary artists ( Will Elder and Jack Davis ) with him.

* Harvey Kurtzman ( 1924 – 1993 ), American cartoonist and editor of several comic books and magazines

Several of the project's contributing artists had previously worked with Kurtzman when he was the editor of Mad, including Wallace Wood, Jack Davis, Al Jaffee and Will Elder.

The title was a companion comic to Kurtzman's Two-Fisted Tales, and stories Kurtzman wrote for both books often displayed an anti-war attitude.

In 1952, EC published Two-Fisted Annual which had no new stories but instead bound together past issues of Two-Fisted Tales with a new cover by Kurtzman.

Kurtzman discussed his approach to Two-Fisted Tales in a 1980 interview:

Kurtzman made his greatest impact as the writer-editor and sometimes artist for EC's satirical MAD Comics, and its war comics Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales ; later, Kurtzman produced Playboy's " Little Annie Fanny ".

And far from being just a label of meaningless hype, the concept proved to be a major step for EC, providing Gaines and Feldstein with a forum for expressing their views on the human condition just as Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat were for Harvey Kurtzman.

Written almost entirely by Harvey Kurtzman, the first issue also featured illustrations by Kurtzman himself, along with Wally Wood, Will Elder, Jack Davis and John Severin.

" Jaffee, a Kurtzman enthusiast, replied, " And then there's a large group who feel that if Harvey had stayed with Mad, he would have upgraded it to the point that only fifteen people would buy it.

In Walz v. Tax Commission, the Court ruled that a legitimate action could not entangle government with religion ; in Lemon v. Kurtzman, these points were combined, declaring that an action was not establishment if

Kurtzman and Elder later tried altering the names and artwork to minimize similarities to Archie characters and trademarks so that it could be reprinted, but they were again threatened with legal action by Archie Comics.

* Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood satirized the strip with Prince Violent in Mad # 13 ( July 1954 ).

Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder satirized the series in Mads fifth issue ( June-July 1953 ) with " Outer Sanctum!

In 2008, he co-created, executive produced, and co-wrote ( along with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman ) the FOX science-fiction series Fringe, for which he composed the theme music for as well.

It was edited by Harvey Kurtzman and published by Hugh Hefner, with only two issues produced in 1957.

Kurtzman began work on Trump shortly after leaving Mad following a break with its publisher William M. Gaines.

* Bill Holman's Smokey Stover: Book 1 ( 1985 ) Blackthorne Publishing ( a trade paperback of black & white reprints with an introduction by Harvey Kurtzman )

* Harvey Kurtzman's Strange Adventures: " The Super Surfer " ( a, with Harvey Kurtzman, graphic novel, 79 pages, Epic, 1990, ISBN 0-8713-5675-9 )

In Lemon v. Kurtzman ( 1971 ), the Supreme Court ruled that government may not " excessively entangle " with religion.

He attended the High School of Music & Art in New York City, together with future EC Comics and Mad artists Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Al Jaffee and Al Feldstein.

Inspired by the quick money Kurtzman would make in-between advertising assignments with one-page " Hey Look!

In Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, McNeil said that the magazine was inspired by two chief influences: Harvey Kurtzman and The Dictators ' debut album The Dictators Go Girl Crazy !, indicating that the magazine was started strictly so that its creators could " hang out with the Dictators ".

After leaving Mad, Mr. Kurtzman and Mr. Elder with other colleagues created Trump and later Humbug.

Along with producing the sequel, he also co-wrote the screenplay with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.

Kurtzman wrote the majority of the comic's stories with Jerry DeFuccio contributing one-page text stories and an occasional regular story.

Towards the end of 1953, a decrease in interest due to the end of the Korean War, as well as Kurtzman becoming overwhelmed with his work on Mad required changes to be made.