NEW (4-Pack) VINTAGE MAD MAGAZINE MINI COVERS ART CARDS MAD COMICS (44 Card Art)

#RETRO #VINTAGE #POPCULTURE [NEW] 4-PACKS INCLUDED! Each Pack Includes (11) Sealed Collectible Retro Cards! Retro Covers of Your Favorite Retro Issues. Ideal Cards For Decoration or Collection Display Pack has been kept safe in storage and is sent in safe box :) Brand: Lime Rock Condition: New Year: 1993 Recommended Age Range: 4+ Mad began as a comic book published by EC, debuting in August 1952. The Mad office was initially located in lower Manhattan at 225 Lafayette Street, while in the early 1960s it moved to 485 Madison Avenue, the location listed in the magazine as "485 MADison Avenue".The first issue was written almost entirely by Harvey Kurtzman, and featured illustrations by him, Wally Wood, Will Elder, Jack Davis, and John Severin. Wood, Elder, and Davis were to be the three main illustrators throughout the 23-issue run of the comic book. To retain Kurtzman as its editor, the comic book converted to magazine format as of issue No. 24, in 1955. The switchover induced Kurtzman to remain for one more year, but the move had removed Mad from the strictures of the Comics Code Authority. William Gaines related in 1992 that Mad "was not changed [into a magazine] to avoid the Code" but "as a result of this [change of format] it did avoid the Code." Gaines claimed that Kurtzman had at the time received "a very lucrative offer from...Pageant magazine," and seeing as he, Kurtzman, "had, prior to that time, evinced an interest in changing Mad into a magazine,"...