Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

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

An essay on the gradual destruction of Siberia's culture and individuality, the film combines footage that Marker shot in Siberia, old newsreel footage, cartoons, stills and, at one point, an illustration of Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine, all accompanied by Marker's signature commentary, which takes the form of a letter from the director to his audience.

* Mad Magazine ( legally owned by EC Publications, but assigned to DC's corporate control in 1994.

Activist Tom Hayden said, " My own radical journey began with Mad Magazine.

Mad poked fun at the tendency of readers to accuse the magazine of declining in quality at various points in its history, depending on the age of the critic, in its " Untold History of Mad Magazine ," a self-referential faux history in the 400th issue which joked: " The second issue of Mad goes on sale on December 9, 1952.

According to the " Mad Magazine Contributor Appearances " website, more than 700 contributors have received bylines in at least one issue of Mad, but fewer than three dozen of those have contributed to 100 issues or more.

The Mad Magazine Game was an absurdist version of Monopoly in which the first player to lose all his money and go bankrupt was the winner.

" In 1980 a second game was released: The Mad Magazine Card Game by Parker Brothers.

* Official Brazilian Mad Magazine Website

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Sergio Aragonés Domenech ( born 6 September 1937, Sant Mateu, Castellón, Spain ) is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer.

He has won Shazam Awards for Best Inker ( Humor Division ) in 1972 for his work on Mad Magazine, and for Best Humor Story in 1972 for " The Poster Plague " from House of Mystery # 202 ( with Steve Skeates ).

He received the National Cartoonist Society Comic Book Award for 1986, their Humor Comic Book Award for 1973, 1974, and 1976, their Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1989, their Special Features Award for 1977, their Gag Cartoon Award for 1983, and their Reuben Award in 1996 for his work on Mad and Groo the Wanderer.

We had some funny interaction with the Mad Magazine people, when we asked for permission to use the name MAD.

Mad Magazine spoofed the 1950s TV series with " Perry Masonmint " ( Perry lost because he was tricked into trying a case on a Friday rather than Saturday, when he was always successful ).

* In 1955 " The Cane Mutiny, or The Walking Stick Rebellion ", appeared in Mad Magazine as one that publication's earliest film spoofs.

In the " Mad Magazine " universe, Jughead's doppelgänger is nicknamed Bottleneck.

The Mad Magazine spoof of the movie was titled " Crymore vs. Crymore ".

According to Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine by Maria Reidelbach, Gaines married Nancy Siegel in 1955.

The Mad Magazine parody of the film was titled " Henna and Her Sickos ".