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Title: The Brothers Mad by William M. Gaines ISBN: 0-7434-4482-5 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Alfred E. Newman says..."Let me turn your brain to cheese!"
Comment: "The Brothers Mad" is a 50th anniversary edition of the 5th "Mad" paperback collection. The title is a takeoff on the Yul Brynner movie "The Brothers Karamazov," which has been largely forgotten (although it was on cable the other day as I was flipping around). Anyhow, this little tidbit explains why one of the four heads of Alfred E. Newman on the cover is bald. Then again, this volume, which was published in 2002 was first published in 1958 and reprinted "Mad" strips from 1953-1955 (which is a sly way of pointing out it is really a 44th anniversary edition of the original reprinted volume). Of course, this all explains why the panels are mostly present sideways.
Included within this pages are "Black and Blue Hawks!" the Harvey Kurtzman/Wallace Wood lampoon of Will Eisner's "Blackhawk," a Jack Davis drawn parody of "The Dave Garrowunway Show," Robert Price's "How to Get into the Army," and the Kurtzman/Bill Elder take off of Shermlock Shomes." However, my favorite is probably "Alice in Wonderland," another Kurtzman/Davis collaboration, that takes on both of Lewis Carroll's famous novels and incorporates some of John Tennils' original drawings. I also enjoy the comic book parodies, such as "Woman Wonder!" and the five daily strips including "Popcorn" and "Manduck the Magician" that close the collection.
Pretty much everything that is found within these pages can be found in better formats with regards to size and color, but there is something to be said for the quaintness of the old style way of William M. Gaines trying to make money off of the old "Mad" stories. "The Brothers Mad" is certainly a representative sampling of what the comic book was putting out under Kurtzman's leadership (remember, it did not become a magazine for several years, by which time Al Feldstein was at the helm) and Grant Geissman's introduction puts the collection in hysterical, um, I mean, historical perspective.
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Title: Mad Strikes Back: The Mad Reader by Mad Magazine, Ibooks, Harvey Kurtzman ISBN: 0743444787 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Utterly Mad by William M. Gaines, Harvey Kurtzman ISBN: 0743444817 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Mad Reader by Harvey Kurtzman, Roger Price, Jack Davis, Bill Elder, Wallace Wood, Ibooks ISBN: 0743434919 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Inside Mad by Mad ISBN: 0743444809 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Son Of Mad by Harvey Kurtzman ISBN: 0743474961 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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