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Where are the Mad Magazine collectors?
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Robot Man

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On 12/23/2021 at 10:10 AM, OtherEric said:

In today.  Finally, after 38 years, I've replaced the long lost copy of the first issue of MAD I ever had.  My parents bought it for me when I was about 8 and we were living in Germany; it got left behind when we moved back to the states a few years later.  We had weight restrictions on what we could bring back, my parents were actually reasonably generous on letting me keep some of my comics... but I had to give this one, and lots of others, up in the shuffle.  (I regret giving up my four year run of Micky Maus, but I still have the 40-odd Lustiges Taschenbuch digests.)

I've said this before and probably will say it again:  I've always considered myself very lucky to have the sort of parents who would give me a copy of MAD when I was old enough to start enjoying it, rather than take it away if they saw me with a copy.  Very, very happy to have a copy of this one again.

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My parents were the opposite. They didn't like me reading horror comics or MAD. They called it "Subversive". So I kept them with my Playboys in a wooden box in the treehouse...

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FoggyNelson

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On 4/14/2022 at 5:14 PM, wampus13 said:

Anyone else collect foreign Mad Magazines? After almost a year long wait, got back my Hebrew/Israeli Mad #1 back from being graded. Happy with the grade and I am in the process of collecting most foreign Mad #1s  

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Love the cover🥰🥰 never saw this before, or any other foreign ones👍‼️

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Robot Man

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On 4/14/2022 at 2:14 PM, wampus13 said:

Anyone else collect foreign Mad Magazines? After almost a year long wait, got back my Hebrew/Israeli Mad #1 back from being graded. Happy with the grade and I am in the process of collecting most foreign Mad #1s  

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That is wild! Never seen that one. Somewhere I have the Sweden and German MAD #1.

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Randall Dowling

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On 6/17/2022 at 10:26 AM, Robot Man said:

Some pre-MAD matchbook weirdness…

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Man, Bob, you have some really obscure items and knowledge that should really get documented somehow.  I'm willing to bet that some of these items have only a dozen or so examples still in existence.  Thanks for sharing, as always!  :applause:

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MasterBall Ty

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Been 12 years since anyone posted in this thread but I'm seeking info on the mad magazine collection my grandpa left behind for me. Any info or value maybe even ideas of what to do with them, I'd appreciate. Issues no.1 - no.45 plus dozens more out of order or later publish date 

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