todaysdocument: First Issue of “Mad Magazine”, 10/1952 Happy birthday, Harvey Kurtzman and Mad Magazine! In October 1952, the very first issue of a new comic called “Mad” was issued, written almost entirely by Kurtzman. It soon came under Senate investigation (thus entering the records of the National Archives), which led to the comic book being transformed into the magazine still going strong today. One of these early issues of Mad is on display in the Archives’ permanent exhibit, The Public Vaults, in Washington, DC. (via National Archives Foundation on Facebook) More records from the Senate Judiciary Committee Special Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency! First issue of Mad Magazine, 10/1952, Records of the U.S. Senate (ARC 595430)
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First Issue of “Mad Magazine”, 10/1952

Happy birthday, Harvey Kurtzman and Mad Magazine! In October 1952, the very first issue of a new comic called “Mad” was issued, written almost entirely by Kurtzman. It soon came under Senate investigation (thus entering the records of the National Archives), which led to the comic book being transformed into the magazine still going strong today. 

One of these early issues of Mad is on display in the Archives’ permanent exhibit, The Public Vaults, in Washington, DC.

(via National Archives Foundation on Facebook)

More records from the Senate Judiciary Committee Special Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency!

First issue of Mad Magazine, 10/1952, Records of the U.S. Senate (ARC 595430)