Comic books in 'Books'

Volume 2, Issue 3 - June 1953. "A Matter of Life and Death" by George Simenon and eight other stories by famous authors including Agatha Christie and Mignon G. Eberhart. Squarebound, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Vol. 2, No. 4 - July 1953. 5.25" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Volume 2, Issue 5 - September 1953. "Finger Man" by Raymond Chandler and seven other stories by famous authors including Agatha Christie and Leslie Charteris. Squarebound, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Volume 2, Issue 6 - October 1953. "The Incredible Theft" by Agatha Christie and seven other stories by famous authors including Margery Allingham and John Dickson Carr. Squarebound, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

title becomes MacKill's with this issue. Cover price $0.35.

NOTE: All Text is in Japanese - 1st printing. Featuring photo stills from the classic anime series Macross (Robotech in America). This issue concentrates on the romantic triangle between Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes, and Lynn Minmay. Softcover, 4 1/2-in. x 6-in., 120 pages, full color. NOTE: All Text is in Japanese. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style books and are meant to be read right-to-left.

NOTE: All Text is in Japanese - 2nd and later printings. Featuring photo stills from the classic anime series Macross (Robotech in America). This issue concentrates on the romantic triangle between Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes, and Lynn Minmay. Softcover, 4 1/2-in. x 6-in., 120 pages, full color. NOTE: All Text is in Japanese. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style books and are meant to be read right-to-left.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing.

The first issue of a new magazine dedicated to classic films from Midnight Marquee press! This issue features a Margaret O'Brien Interview; Mantan Moreland, Elena Verdugo: Dances with Werewolves;, Roger Corman; Mad About Alfred Hitchcock.

Softcover, 66 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $6.00.

Volume 2 - 1st printing.

From the publishers of Midnight Marquee! This issue of Mad About Movies is jam-packed with articles and features on such classic movies and stars as: John Wayne, Kay Kyser, The Big Sleep, and Laurel and Hardy! Plus: classic movie reviews, and much more!

Softcover, 66 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $6.00.

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Volume 3 - 1st printing.

Midnight Marquee: Mad About Movies featured Part 2 of "Laurel and Hardy on Film"; Bob Hope's "Horror Comedies"; "Sci-Fi Noir: DOA and Detour"; "Our Top Most Romantic Scenes"; "The Films of Mabel Norman"; "Horrors of Betty Boop"; "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"; "The List of Adrian Messenger"; and "Jane Austen on Film." If you love movies, this is the mag for you! (Midnight Marquee)

Softcover, 128 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $10.00.

Volume 4 - 1st printing.

This issue focuses on Sherlock Holmes (now on DVD), as well as John Ford's classic Westerns. Also, tributes to Ann Miller and Donald O'Connor. For lovers of cheesecake, there's the article "Jane Austen on Film." Plus, "The Olympics in the Movies," and more.

Softcover, 128 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $10.00.

Volume 5 - 1st printing.

Mad About Movies, devoted to classic films, in this issue offers a tribute to Glenn Ford, plus articles on classic John Wayne/John Ford Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and the brilliant Mr. Roberts starring Henry Fonda, and a tribute to The Godfather by a fresh new writer. Also 50 pages of DVD reviews!

Softcover, 96 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $10.00.

Volume 6 - 1st printing.

This issue makes summer sizzling with an Elvis filmography; a look at three versions of The Maltese Falcon; Laurel and Hardy in Pardon Us; and an article you can't refuse that takes a look at The Godfather. Plus, over 40 pages of DVD reviews!

Softcover, 96 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $10.00.

Volume 7 - 1st printing.

Includes: From Rio Bravo to El Dorado: Journey from Light to Darkness by Nick Anez; John Ford and Two Rode Together by Anthony Amborigo; and DVD Reviews by Gary J. Svehla.

Softcover, 40 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $10.00.

Volume 8 - 1st printing.

Includes: Articles on Dana Andrews, Gordon Scott's Tarzan and DVD Reviews.

Softcover, 40 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $10.00.

Volume 9 - 1st printing.

Includes: TARZAN: Lord of RKO; THE WHISTLER: Mystery, Shadows and Suspense on the Cheap; FRED MacMURRAY: Hollywood's Invisible Legend; Get Your Kicks on ROUTE 66; THRILLER: Season Ones Best in Crime and Suspense; A Comparison of ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON and THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE; plus Book and DVD Reviews.

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 100 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $10.00.

1st printing. By Tom Richmond. In The Mad Art of Caricature!, award-winning caricaturist and illustrator Tom Richmond shares his secrets to creating great caricatures. He takes the reader on an artistic journey, examining what really makes a caricature successful, what to look for in a face, and how to draw it. You will also learn how to apply this skill, whether it's drawing live, theme-park-style caricatures, or creating caricature for publication work. Loaded with everything from basic theories and drawing instruction to professional tips and tricks, this book contains something for novices and experts alike. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 170 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. By the Usual Gang of Idiots. Introduction by Trey Parker of South Park. MAD presents a new movement in humor - if you bring only one book with you to the bathroom, take the plunge with this latest release from MAD Books: The MAD Bathroom Companion. Selected by a careful process of elimination, each article was chosen by the anal retentive "Usual Gang of Idiots," and sanitized for your protection. Featuring the best short pieces from MAD Magazine, we quarantee each can be read in one sitting. So don't stall, buy your copy now. You won't be able to wipe the smile off your face! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 280 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. By the Usual Gang of Idiots. Introduction by Trey Parker of South Park. MAD presents a new movement in humor - if you bring only one book with you to the bathroom, take the plunge with this latest release from MAD Books: The MAD Bathroom Companion. Selected by a careful process of elimination, each article was chosen by the anal retentive "Usual Gang of Idiots," and sanitized for your protection. Featuring the best short pieces from MAD Magazine, we quarantee each can be read in one sitting. So don't stall, buy your copy now. You won't be able to wipe the smile off your face! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 280 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Number Two!" By the Usual Gang of Idiots. Cover by Mark Fredrickson. Flush with success from our first MAD BATHROOM COMPANION comes the second movement in the series with an all-new color cover by Mark Fredrickson and an introduction by film critic Gene Shalit! This hilarious volume is packed with the best short pieces from MAD MAGAZINE, featuring the work of Sergio Aragonés, Al Jaffee, and the Usual Gang of Idiots and containing such classics as "The Lighter Side of..." and "Spy vs. Spy." Each article guaranteed to be readable in one sitting! If you thought the first BATHROOM COMPANION was fun, just wait until you get a load of NUMBER TWO! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 228 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 2 - 2nd or later printings. "Number Two!" By the Usual Gang of Idiots. Cover by Mark Fredrickson. Flush with success from our first MAD BATHROOM COMPANION comes the second movement in the series with an all-new color cover by Mark Fredrickson and an introduction by film critic Gene Shalit! This hilarious volume is packed with the best short pieces from MAD MAGAZINE, featuring the work of Sergio Aragonés, Al Jaffee, and the Usual Gang of Idiots and containing such classics as "The Lighter Side of..." and "Spy vs. Spy." Each article guaranteed to be readable in one sitting! If you thought the first BATHROOM COMPANION was fun, just wait until you get a load of NUMBER TWO! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 228 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "The Turd in the Series!" By the Usual Gang of Idiots. For this 288-page black-and-white softcover collection, "The Usual Gang of Idiots" has plumbed the depths of comedy to deliver more classic material! Featuring an introduction by comedian Gibert Gottfried, you can't afford to miss this! For more information, see the feature article. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 288 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. "The Gushing Fourth Edition!" By the Usual Gang of Idiots. Cover by Mark Fredrickson. The MAD Bathroom Companion - the Gushing Fourth Edition - is flush with classic material written and illustrated by "The Usual Gang of Idiots." After three self-defecating books, many thought we couldn't go any more - but we pushed on! This hot new release from MAD will have you laughing so hard you won't be able to hold it in! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 288 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

First Printing of Grosset & Dunlap Edition. Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Hardcover with dust jacket. 5.25" x 7.5", 365 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.75.

First Printing of Grosset & Dunlap Edition. Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Hardcover without dust jacket. 5.25" x 7.5", 365 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.75.

1st printing. By Vernard Eller, Professor of Religion, LaVerne College. From takeoffs on the current crop of dull movies to biting satires on American politics to caricatures of the typical middle-class family, MAD's "trash" is calculated comment on modern society. Concentrating on the Ten Commandments of the Judaic-Christian tradition, Vernard Eller reveals favorite MAD articles for the subversive moral documents they really are. In fact, it's almost as if the editors pledge monthly allegiance to an 11th Commandment -"Thou shalt put down all sham and hypocrisy." Softcover, 8.5" x 11", 256 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.95.

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1st printing.

Written by Jacob Lambert. Art and cover by Tom Richmond.

Mad Magazine knows there are more important vehicles to protect in this 100% Unauthorized parody of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus! While Batman is busy fighting crime on the mean streets of Gotham City, it's up to us to keep an eye on the Batmobile. The only problem? The Penguin really, really wants to drive it! Should we let him?

In this all-new story from the Usual Gang of Idiots at MAD Magazine, the best-selling children's book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus is parodied with the heroes and villains from the world of Batman!

Hardcover, 9-in. x 9-in., 32 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

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1st printing. Written by Dave Croatto. art and cover by Tom Richmond. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the worst day ever! It's a 100% UNauthorized children's book parody as only MAD Magazine can do it in SUPERMAN AND THE MISERABLE, ROTTEN, NO FUN, REALLY BAD DAY! It's a day so terrible that only the Man of Steel could possibly hope to survive it! On this miserable, rotten, no fun, very bad day, Superman will face rampaging super-villains, angry editors, boring chores, a cranky Justice League and, worst of all, bad pizza. Superman's home planet, Krypton, exploded - so he's no stranger to bad days-but even so, this is one for the record books! In this all-new story from the Usual Gang of Idiots at MAD Magazine (the same crew that brought you GOODNIGHT, BATCAVE) the best-selling children's book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is parodied with the heroes and villains from the world of DC Comics' Superman! Hardcover, 32 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

1st Printing - Written by Bertrand R. Brinley. A strange sea-monster suddenly appears on the lake...a fortune is unearthed from an old cannon...a valuable dinosaur egg is stolen. Who's responsible? Those six junior geniuses - and their wild ideas. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 188 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

2nd or later printing - Written by Bertrand R. Brinley. A strange sea-monster suddenly appears on the lake...a fortune is unearthed from an old cannon...a valuable dinosaur egg is stolen. Who's responsible? Those six junior geniuses - and their wild ideas. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 188 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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Reprint Edition published in 1948 by Phoenix Press. Written by Gail Jordan. Gerald Ramsay, though only twenty-five, has gleaned a vast experience in love. Sybaritic and personable, he had just enough money and just enough charm to be able to make a career out of being a permanent house guest. In the course of his various excursions into the homes of the wealthy, he had met girls who had everything and were willing to prove it. But, the day he landed in Gareth Portland's private island off the East Coast, even Gerald was obliged to open his world-weary eyes. For coming toward him from across the beach was the most stunningly beautiful redhead Gerald had ever encountered... Softcover Digest, 5" x 7", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by George Salter. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Oliver La Farge, R. Bretnor, Lawrence Goldman, Gene Hunter, Ray Bradbury, Wilson Tucker, Daniel Defoe, Graves Taylor, Matrin Gardner, Will Stanton, F. Tennyson Jesse, Maurice Murphy, and C. Daly King (as Jeremiah Prelan). Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by George Salter. "Through Channels" by Richard Matheson, plus other fantasy and science fiction stories by Poul Anderson, L. Sprague De Camp & Fletcher Pratt, Bruce Elliot, Idris Seabright, H. Nearing Jr, David Grinnell, Christopher Wood, R. Ellis Roberts, George Paul Elliot, Alan Nelson, and Manly Wade Wellman. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Chesley Bonestell. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Arthur C. Clarke, John P. McKnight, Robert Arthur, Betsy Curtis, Garrett Oppenheim, H. Nearing Jr, Philip MacDonald, John Langdon, Miriam Allen DeFord, John Leimert, H. F. Heard, Charles Dickens (1860 reprint), and Alan Nelson. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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October 1951. Cover by George Salter. "Dress of White Silk" by Richard Matheson, plus other fantasy and science fiction stories by Alfred Bester, H. Russell Wakefield, Richard Deming, Joseph H. Gage, Donald A. Wollheim (as David Grinnell), Richard Brookbank, Margaret St. Clair (as Idris Seabright), L. Sprague DeCamp & Fletcher Pratt, and Cornell Woolrich. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

December 1951. Cover by George Salter and Dirone Photography. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Fritz Leiber, Percival Wilde, Manly Wade Wellman, Arthur Porges, Howard Schoenfeld, Margaret Irwin, Robert Arthur, Zenna Henderson, James S. Hart, Kenneth R. Deardorf, and H. Nearing Jr. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

February 1952. Cover by Chesley Bonestell. Fantasy and science fiction stories by H. B. Fyfe, L. Sprague DeCamp & Fletcher Pratt, Jan Struther, L. Major Reynolds, R. Bretnor, Mildred Clingerman, John R. Pierce (as J. J. Coupling), Walter B. Gibson (as Edward S. Sullivan), John Wyndham, W. B. Ready, Ray Bradbury, Kenneth H. Cassens, Edward Everett Hale, James Thurber, and Margaret St. Clair (as Idris Seabright). Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.