About the Mad Magazine #1 Facsimile Edition Cover A Harvey Kurtzman

Art by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Bill Elder and John Severin For people who like their humor in a jugular vein, we offer (again!) these tales calculated to drive you MAD. A facsimile reprint of the first landmark issue of MAD! With parodies of the leading comic book genres of 1952, this issue includes the EC Horror-inspired terrorizing tales of Hoohah, the expansive science fiction future world of Blobs!, the wacky Western-themed Varmint! and from our true crime tales department, Ganefs!. Prepare to have your sides spilt by MAD's creators and the original Usual Gang of Idiots, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Jack Davis, and Wally Wood.