[PLUG-TALK] R.I.P. Mad magazine

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Thu Jul 4 23:01:42 UTC 2019


On 7/4/19 2:32 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I was really saddened to read that Mad magazine will soon stop monthly
> publication. I started buying it when it first came out in 1952 and 
> read it
> monthly for several decades. It was when I was in the Army that I 
> learned my
> mother decided I no longer needed those old magazines and threw out 
> numbers
> 1-100 (something) that I had saved. Had she not done that I could have 
> sold
> them and made a small fortune.

Yeah, moms are like that. That's how my collection of comic books 
disappeared, including an original "The Fly" which might be worth 
something today. Oh, well.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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