Collectible Vintage Book: William M. Gaines’s Like MAD

£12

A vintage book with B/W illustrations. Published by A Signet Book, USA, 1960. Softcover Edition. Good Condition with no loose or torn pages – it is however a used book so obviously does show signs of wear and previous use. Illustrated cover with drawing and black/yellow and white lettering on the front. With red lettering on spine. 192 pp.

Author: William M Gaines

Publisher: A Signet Book, USA 1960

Subject: Humour, Comic, Limericks and Verse

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Period: Modernism (1910-1965)

Date of First Publication: 1960. This printing 1964

Place of Publication: USA

About the author: William Maxwell "Bill" Gaines (March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992), was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics. Following a shift in EC's direction in 1950, Gaines presided over what became an artistically influential and historically important line of mature-audience comics. He published the popular satirical magazine Mad for over 40 years. He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame (1993) and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame (1997). In 2012, he was inducted into the Ghastly Awards' Hall of Fame.



From Wikipedia: Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it satire on all aspects of life and popular culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures. Its format is divided into a number of recurring segments such as TV and movie parodies, as well as free form articles. Mad's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is typically the focal point of the magazine's cover, with his face often replacing that of a celebrity or character who is lampooned within the issue

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