Mad About the Seventies: The Best of the Decade

by MAD Magazine

A collection of seventies humor culled from the pages of the comic magazine includes parodies of sitcoms and movies from the seventies, satires on the decade's fads and fashions, and running features such as the MAD "fold-in." Original.

Genres: Humor, Comics

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1996

About the author

Collective name for "the usual gang of idiots," the various creators, authors, and illustrators of MAD Magazine.

Many compilations of MAD Magazine parodies have been published, and individual author and illustrator credits are sometimes difficult to find.

Reviews

[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved reading these as a kid. Do I still love them? Certianly. No kid-ding.

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mad About the Seventies: The Best of the Decade by the Usual Gang of Idiots (Quality Paperback Book Club 1996) (051.0) is a collection of the highlights from Mad Magazine during the 1970's. This type of humor does not age well, but I surely loved it as a kid. My rating: 6.5/10, finished 1/31/14.

[FranklinTV · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of MAD articles from the seventies. I started reading from 1976 (know the first issue well), so some are familar favourites. Obviously time has aged the political and social issues that were the target of the humor, but sadly still parallels to today.

[Barry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Who put the benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?
Who are the Brain Police?
Where are my car keys?
Some questions can't be answered. We can, however, say that this is an exemplary collection of MADness from a very weird decade.