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Auction History Result 5t0390 MAD #24 magazine July 1955 historic first magazine issue ever, Bill Gaines & Harvey Kurtzman! Date Sold 1/16/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Magazine (measures 8" x 10 3/4" [20 x 27 cm]) (Learn More) Mad, the classic humor magazine ("Humor in a jugular vein") from the 1950s to the present. This comic was published by Bill Gaines (William Gaines) through his company, EC Comics (E.C. Comics), which he inherited from his father in 1947. It was originally a comic book edited by Harvey Kurtzman, and it was one of the famous EC Comics (E.C. Comics) that were banned in the mid-1950s, due to excessive horror content. At that point, publisher Gaines canceled most of his comic book titles, and turned Mad into a magazine with its 24th issue. Unfortunately, he and Kurtzman soon had a falling out, and Al Feldstein, who had been Gaines' writing partner on the Mad comic books (and Feldstein had edited Panic, EC's own imitation of Mad), took over, and the magazine became one of the great success stories of the 1950s and 1960s (led by its trademark character, Alfred E. Neuman, a goofy looking guy whose slogan was "What, me worry?"), with a circulation in the millions at its peak. Gaines never allowed any advertising of any kind in the magazine! In recent years, there was a "Mad" TV show which perfectly captures the spirit of the magazine! Important Added Info: Note that because this magazine is so rare and valuable, we have provided pictures of ALL the pages of the magazine. These images should greatly help you judge the overall exact condition of the magazine. Note: We have 35 images of this magazine, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 35 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 25. Condition: good. Note that we have attempted to check to see if the magazine is complete and uncut, and we believe that it is. However, there is a slight possibility that we might have missed a small cut or a page that was neatly removed, and if that happens, you can return the magazine. We have solely provided an overall description of the condition of the magazine, but you can also refer to our super-sized images. Please bid (or not bid) based on that overall grade and by viewing the super-sized images. Learn More about condition grades 
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