RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books For the love of MAD...

Updated with a working image, because I love the far-from-threatening Karloff-looking Frankenstein Neuman :

Also updated :

https://readallcomics.com/mad-060/

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/MAD/Issue-60?id=73621

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Another hilarious MAD cover, from MAD 238, April 1983.

https://readallcomics.com/mad-238/

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/MAD/Issue-238?id=73003

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from MAD 228, Jan 1982.

https://readallcomics.com/mad-228/

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/MAD/Issue-228?id=72992

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MAD 242, October 1983, that includes a movie parody of "Return of the Jedi" by Mort Drucker.
And also by Drucker, a parody of the TV series "The A-Team" .
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/MAD/Issue-242?id=73008
https://readallcomics.com/mad-242/

The A-Team has recently regained popularity, with marathons of episodes running several times a week on Sundance channel, and also now on IFC.

Outside of MAD, artist Robert Crumb did a story titled "The Ruff-Tuff Cream-Puffs Take Charge", that first ran in HUP # 1, in 1987,
and could double as another parody of the A-Team.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Hup/Issue-1?id=182504
https://readallcomics.com/hup-1/

"The Ruff-Tuff Creampuffs" story later appeared also in the collected book R.CRUMB'S AMERICA (Last Gasp, 2005, in a larger 9" X 12" size)

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From MAD issue 168, July 1974.
https://readallcomics.com/mad-168/


A parody of the hippie movie "Billy Jack"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Jack

For those unfamiliar with it, the movie centers on a small town in the southwestern U.S. circa 1971. And there's a Native American guy named Billy Jack who is a Vietnam war veteran, and known locally for his skills as a martial arts fighter. Billy Jack's girlfriend runs a farm/commune populated by a lot of hippies, peaceful but a bit spaced out, who are scorned, mocked, and sometimes attacked by the more belligerent locals of the nearby town.
In the movie version, Billy Jack confronts some of the locals when he catches them roughing up some hippie kids, and Billy Jack takes off his boots, to kick them more precisely when fighting, with the right edges of his feet.

In the MAD parody version, Billy Jack is so lethal with his feet because he hasn't washed his feet in 2 years, and knocks all these guys out with the powerful stench !


There's also a parody of the Billy Jack movie ("Billy Jerk", a 1-page parody ) in Marvel's CRAZY magazine, issue 5, July 1974.




All 550 MAD covers can be viewed at :

• https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?tid=353271&pgi=1
  
  https://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=52193225344&snumber=1
  
  https://madcoversite.com/covers.html
  
  https://wonderclub.com/magazines/adult_magazine_full_year.php?mag=MAD

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Another off-the deep-end of the frog pond offering from Don Martin.

From MAD 177, Sept 1975.
https://archive.org/details/mad-arc...hive/1970%27s/1975/MAD%20%23177/mode/1up

https://readallcomics.com/mad-177/

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From MAD 167, June 1974.
https://archive.org/details/mad-arc...hive/1970%27s/1974/MAD%20%23167/mode/1up

https://readallcomics.com/mad-167/


Another funny twist on the fairy tale princess kissing a frog theme.
And just one of three outstandingly funny Don Martin pages in this issue.

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One more Don Maritn offering, from MAD 175, June 1975, "The Prisoner's Last Request"
https://archive.org/details/mad-arc...hive/1970%27s/1975/MAD%20%23175/mode/1up

https://readallcomics.com/mad-175/






I could only find this Spanish-translated version online, but it is non-verbal, and so just as clear in this version, except for being re-titled in Spanish.

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From MAD 419, July 2002
https://archive.org/details/mad-arc...hive/2000%27s/2002/MAD%20%23419/mode/1up

https://readallcomics.com/mad-419/


Some well-played Jedi dysfunction.
Out at the time of Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of the Clones.

I never liked any of this second wave of STAR WARS sequels nearly as much as the first three movies.

That is very funny.

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https://archive.org/details/mad-arc...0%27s/1970/MAD%20%23139/page/15/mode/1up



I love Don Martin's wild twist on "flower power", that the hippie unleashed on his construction worker attackers.


I love the Jack Davis cover too.
Everyone around Alfred E. Neuman is raging about politics, and quietly amid the chaos, he's the only one cheering for his college's football team, with his smile-and-a-wink playful tdiot grin at the reader.

I was telling my older kids about this one last night. It is true genius.

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I don't know exactly where this one is from, I don't have the physical copy of that issue.
But I'd guess from a MAD SPECIAL that included Don Martin stickers, as a bonus feature.
Don Martin stickers were included in issues 10, 20, and 23.

( And bonus Don Marttin posters in issues 14, 17, and 25. )

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=171451
https://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=52291917072&snumber=1