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

Even EC Comics joined the parade with a sister humor magazine, Panic, produced by future Mad editor Al Feldstein.

Other U. S. humor magazines of note include former Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman's Humbug, Trump and Help !, as well as the National Lampoon, Spy, and The Onion.

" Mad editor Al Feldstein said, " He could have drawn the whole magazine if we'd let him.

Mad editor Nick Meglin often did layouts of " Lighter Side " panels.

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.

Longtime Mad editor Nick Meglin called Gaines a " living contradiction " in 2011, saying, " He was singularly the cheapest man in the world, and the most generous.

* Mad editor Al Feldstein, who was stationed in Blytheville during World War II, later wrote a science fiction story set in Blytheville, " Chewed Out ," Weird Science 12 ( March 1952 ).

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

The first to review Drucker's portfolio was Mad associate editor Nick Meglin, who admitted, " I didn't spot how great he was at caricatures.

At the time of Drucker's arrival, Mad did not regularly feature TV and movie satires ; editor Al Feldstein credited Drucker's style and ability for the decision to start featuring them in every issue.

Steve Gerber, who served as Crazy < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s editor from issues # 11-14, and wanted it to be distinctive from the archteypal Mad, said that the goal was to present work that implied the creators were themselves insane.

Cracked < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s concurrent attempt to sign Mad < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s caricaturist Mort Drucker was unsuccessful, but the magazine did acquire longtime Mad contributor Lou Silverstone as editor and writer.

Former Mad associate editor Jerry DeFuccio also worked at Cracked for a short period.

In March 1957, Woodbridge began as a freelancer to Mad when Al Feldstein was the editor.

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.

As an editor at Ballantine during the 1950s and 1960s, Bernard Shir-Cliff handled the Zacherley anthologies, the paperback of Hunter Thompson's Hell's Angels, Harvey Kurtzman's The Mad Reader and other early Mad paperbacks.

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 ".

In 1952, he was the founding editor of the comic book Mad.

Future Mad Magazine cartoonist and " Fold-In " creator Al Jaffee wrote and drew most of the early issues, several of which included Mad founding editor Harvey Kurtzman's highly stylized " Hey Look!

* Capp, Al, Newsweek Magazine ( November 24, 1947 ) " Li ' l Abner's Mad Capp "

In 2009, an interviewer proposed to Al Jaffee, " There's a group of Mad afficionados who feel that if Harvey Kurtzman had stayed at Mad, the magazine would not only have been different, but better.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

* 2007: Al Jaffee, Mad

With the publication of the 500th issue in 2009, Aragonés ' work had appeared in 424 issues of Mad, second only to Al Jaffee ( 451 issues ).

Fellow Mad contributor Al Jaffee described Berg's unique personality in 2009: " Dave had a messianic complex of some sort.

The next day, with the American League Championship Series with the Royals beginning, Jackson hit a home run off the Royals ' top reliever at the time, Al Hrabosky, the flamboyant " Mad Hungarian.

Lander has also appeared in numerous other TV shows and movies including The Bob Newhart Show, Barney Miller, Happy Days, Married ... with Children, Twin Peaks, On the Air, The Weird Al Show, Mad About You, and The Drew Carey Show.

McDowell has lent his voice to Lord Maliss in Happily Ever After, the Superman villain Metallo in Superman: The Animated Series, Mad Mod in Teen Titans, Merlyn in DC Showcase: Green Arrow, Arkady Duvall ( son of Ra's Al Ghul ) in Batman: The Animated Series and as the voice of a Death Star commander in a Robot Chicken episode parodying Star Wars.

* Capp, Al, Newsweek Magazine ( November 24, 1947 ) " Li ' l Abner's Mad Capp "

* Mad Cows starring Joanna Lumley, Anna Friel, Mohamed Al Fayed, Jodie Kidd & Sophie Dahl

Other name artists who contributed at least once to Cracked include such Mad veterans as Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee, and Basil Wolverton, and such future Mad contributors as Jack Rickard, Angelo Torres, Bill Wray, Greg Theakston, Dennis Snee, Mike Snider, Dean Norman, Charlie Kadau, May Sakami and Tom Richmond.

According to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was born from an idea of Johnny " The Fox " Torrio and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City, attended by leading underworld figures throughout the United States, including Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Abner " Longy " Zwillman, Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Vince Mangano, gambler Frank Erickson, Frank Scalice and Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia .< ref > Carl Sifakis, < cite > The Mafia Encyclopedia: second edition </ cite >, ( Checkmark Books )</ ref > Others describe the Atlantic City meeting as a coordination and strategy conference for bootleggers .< ref > Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau ,< cite > Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob </ cite > Paddington Press, 1979 </ ref >

Unfortunately, Muggs bit editor Al Feldstein, and never worked for Mad again.

When Feldstein retired in 1984, he was replaced by the team of Nick Meglin and John Ficarra, who co-edited Mad for the next two decades.

) Feldstein oversaw Mad from 1955 through 1986, as Gaines went on to a long and profitable career as a publisher of satire and enemy of bombast.

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.

Mad contributor Tom Richmond has tweaked critics who say the magazine's decision to accept advertising would make late publisher William Gaines " turn over in his grave ", pointing out this was impossible because Gaines was cremated.

During the Gaines years, the publisher had an aversion to exploiting his fanbase and expressed the fear that substandard Mad products would offend them.

Although Mad was sold in the early 1960s for tax reasons, Gaines remained as publisher until the day he died and served as a buffer between the magazine and its corporate interests.

One publisher who looked into buying the Cracked operation felt that Mad was " in a class by itself " and that " Cracked couldn't top Mad's lineup ".

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

In his last years of working with Mad, Martin had a falling out with publisher William Gaines over royalties for the paperback compilations of older Mad articles and cartoons released under new omnibus titles, such as The Self-Made Mad.

Wallace Allan Wood ( June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981 ) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad.

Mad publisher Bill Gaines joked that he was a fan of the Fold-In because he knew that serious collectors valued pristine, unfolded copies, and would therefore be inspired to purchase two copies of each issue -- one to fold, and another to preserve intact.

In a style reminiscent of Mad, it is relentlessly user-hostile, taking time out to insult the reader wherever possible ( it opens with the words " Welcome to Violence, you degraded turd "), and uses a mechanic whereby experience points can be bought for hard cash from the designer or publisher.

" Prohías, however, was censored by Mad magazine publisher William Gaines on at least one occasion: the strip that eventually appeared in Mad magazine # 84 ( Jan. 1964 ) was altered as the Spies were depicted as drinking and smoking ( Gaines had a strong anti-smoking stance ).

According to Frank Jacobs's biography The Mad World of William M. Gaines, Mad's parodies of real advertisements generated so much attention that Mad publisher William Gaines received requests from the promotional departments of many real products, asking Mad to run parodies of their advertisements.

However, it was later finished by developer Mad Doc Software and released in 2002 by publisher Xicat Interactive.

* William Gaines ( 1922 – 1992 ), American publisher of EC Comics, founder of Mad magazine

* Roger Price ( comedy ) ( 1918 – 1990 ), an American humorist and publisher who created Droodles and co-created Mad Libs

In 1971, he was able to induce Mad publisher William M. Gaines to appear on To Tell the Truth as himself ; all four panelists failed to pick out the real Gaines.

DeBartolo's book, Good Days and Mad: A Hysterical Tour Behind the Scenes at Mad Magazine ( 1994 ), traces his first 30 years at Mad and details his friendship with publisher William Gaines.