December 2nd, 2005
Every Cover of Mad Magazine Cover Scanned and Posted Online for FREE
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Mad Magazine played a big part in my childhood - it helped me form my weird sense of humor, and I just loved the whole thing. A guy name Doug Gilford has painstakingly scanned in every cover of Mad since the 1950’s.
If you have a Mad fan in your life, please let them know about this.
Note: I changed the headline because it incorrectly said every “copy” and not every “cover” of Mad, but I did see a place on the site where people are selling their copies. Not free, but CHEAP as the gang from Mad would say.
Our Take: best use of a scanner we’ve ever seen.
Click Here to View the Complete Archive
Rob says:
Heh, every cover. When I saw the headline on the feed I thought it was every issue in its entirety. That’d have been wild.
September 29th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
Charles says:
Me too… that would have been very cool; worth paying for even. Kind of a let down after reading the headline though.
September 29th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Alice says:
Sorry about that. I didn’t mean to fool anyone - I just saw all my old favorite Mad magazines and glazed over. Will correct headline.
September 29th, 2005 at 3:43 pm
Silverlokk says:
How would we manage those fold-overs (or whatever you call them) on the inside back cover? You know, those drawings that have vertical A and B dotted lines that you’re supposed to fold to create an entirely different — and funnier — image?
September 30th, 2005 at 4:09 am
Ken says:
If you can find it, there’s a 4 CD set that contains every issue of MAD since the start, up to somewhere in the mid 1990’s. I picked up a copy at a flea market for $10 a few years ago. It’s even Indexed so you can search for stuff. I THINK, but don’t recall completely, that they provide both folded and unfolded versions of the fold-ins too.
September 30th, 2005 at 5:46 am
Alice says:
Looks like we took another site down with too much traffic. The link which hasnot changed is down right now so check back later.
September 30th, 2005 at 11:02 am
Stephen says:
Hey Ken [cough cough] um er you have a spare [cough copy cough] CD of that um lying around doing nothin’ ?
lol
October 3rd, 2005 at 1:20 am
Rick says:
The collection is on 7 CDs and rund through 1998.
December 3rd, 2005 at 8:51 pm
Surfilicious says:
MAD Cover Collection!
Here’s a site that will thrill all MAD lovers. (One of us has some very dear memories of midnight MAD reading under the covers with a flashlight back when she was probably way too young to even have her
December 4th, 2005 at 8:53 pm
Arik says:
I didn’t mean to fool anyone - I just saw all my old favorite Mad magazines and glazed over.
January 19th, 2006 at 9:41 am
Kevin says:
I thought It would have the actual issues not the covers.
Im very dissapointed.
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[…] We get so caught up in covering products and DRM lawsuits that it’s easy to forget how the Web also makes a great museum for those who have a little too much time on their hands. That’s so 1997 I know, but for every song you download and printer cartridge you buy, there is also the Mad Magazine cover archive and the interactive cassette tape library organized by brand, recording length and tape quality on Tapedeck.org. […]
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July 7th, 2007 at 6:41 am
Simon says:
Hey Man, I owe you a very big hand. I’m just MAD for MAD. It drives me MAD.
December 6th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Nonya says:
No one cares about the covers, ppl jus want read the issues.
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