A Mad Look at Old Movies

by Dick de Bartolo, Jack Davis (Illustrator), Mort Drucker (Illustrator)

READING CREASES ON SPINE AND COVERS. BRIGHT COLORS. LIGHT AGE RELATED TANNING INSIDE COVERS. CLEAN PAGES.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Comics, Graphic Novels

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

Reviews

[Phil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mad spoofs movie tropes here and this reads like a graphic novel before there was such a thing. All told, four 'old movies' make up the content: a riff on Tarzan, 'Little Miss Wishy Washy', a PI spoof, and a 'rags to riches' dancing gal staring in a new musical. All four made me laugh and the art work is top notch. If you dig old Mads, this is a good one!

[Davis Falk · Rating 4 out of 5]

I know this is really just a comic book. Maybe you could call it a "graphic novel" before the term existed. It's from 1965, a time when, apparently, you could buy a brand new paperback for just a buck and a quarter. You get 4 stories written in the classic Mad Magazine style, lots of puns and double entendres and plays-on-words. But I thoroughly enjoyed it. Seems like forever since I encountered humor that made me literally laugh out loud, and wasn't obscene. Good, snappy art tops it off, so it's pleasing visually as well as verbally. Quite refreshing.

[Kevin Dumcum · Rating 2 out of 5]

I watch a lot of movies, and I could not identify the movies this book was spoofing.

[Kirby Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorites from the MAD inventory.

[Gali · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think I must have missed what was supposed to be super funny :(