From Here to Insanity (1955) 12 GD+ 2.5

From Here to Insanity (1955) 12 GD+ 2.5

Cover coming loose at both staples. Water damage.

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Stories and art by Dick Ayers, Art Gates, Carl Hubbell and Fred Ottenheimer. Charlton's Mad imitator continues its hit-or-miss parodies of 1950s pop culture, converting to a magazine format with this issue, as Mad did. This issue features no art by Marvel legend Jack Kirby, contrary to some sources (the Kirby art is in issue #11). Photo cover includes 1950s icons Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Jackie Gleason, and Jerry Lewis. How Davy Crockett rose up from a simple frontiersman to a 1950s TV star. Parodies of the films Blackboard Jungle and Marilyn Monroe's The Seven Year Itch. Another 1950s icon, trans pioneer Christine Jorgensen, gets the From Here to Insanity treatment. An indecipherable article written in "jazz" lingo. Spoofs of 1950s advertising, including shampoo, deodorant, and cigarettes ads. Haloo Shampoo; Chase & Sunburn Coffee; Old Spicy Sticky Deodorant; Classified Ads; The Raving Reporter; How Davy Crockhead Captured America; The Man on the Flying Trapeze; Confidentially; The Truth About the French Pose Card Raquet; The Truth About Army Justice; Why Gretel Garbow Wants Her Privacy; Operation Denmark; The Truth About the Einstein Experts; I Toyed With the Hearts of Men; Blackboard Jumble; Fisherman's Daily Guide for August; How to Catch a Man; Camp Minnacootchie; Eat Younger and Look Older; Jive Me Gently; You Too Can Dance; How To Pour a Patio; Across and Drowkcab Puzzle; Insanity Removes the Wraps from Atomic Age's Most Explosive Pin-Ups!; Recommended by Huncan Dines; Those T.V. Commercials; Maryland Monrowboat in "The Seven Year Twitch"; French Girdle; Pearliaments Cigarettes. Final issue under this title; series continues as Crazy, Man, Crazy (1955) #1. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10. Grade: GD+ 2.5 explanation of grade Condition: Used (collectible)