Mad Magazine or Cracked Magazine?

[samurainoir]

Back in the day, which was your favourite.

I read both, but I always like Cracked better back in the seventies and early eighties. Later I would discover that it was because I really dug the artwork of John Severin and Bill Ward. Severin really did some expressive stuff in the tv and movie parodies every issue, and how can anyone resist Ward's ultra curvy Nanny Dickering?

Not that I don't have a fondness for Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragones, Don Martin et al.

[ABMAC]

I had a subscription to Mad for a while. John Severin's art was the best, but Mad was just funnier.

[The Toyroom]

Mad all the way....I originally got hooked on the papaerback compliations they used to put out...was it Signet or Ballantine maybe? But how can you not love Spy vs. Spy, The Lighter Side, Mad Fold-Ins, Snappy Answers...., Mad Marginals, yada yada yada? It's a part of Americana that Cracked never was....Crazy either.

[palitoy]

Mad usually won but Cracked did some cool stuff like the Monster issues that had me buying, it didn't hurt that I had the hots for Nanny Dickering as a kid.

[Bo8a_Fett]

Mad definately....loved the movie and tv parodies...the artwork was great in those. just picked up the Mad Star Wars special...great reding those again.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Not a huge fan of either when I was a kid. Comedy isn't my thing. (Or rather; it IS, since my life is a comedy....) I'd buy the Cracked Monster specials though. Monsters are cool. And for a while I read Crazy. Teen Hulk, Obnoxio and Dirk McGirk are mre my speed.

Don C.

[thunderbolt]

I always liked Mad over Cracked. I did like Plop! DC's comic sized version.

[The Sentry]

Mad all the way! Sergio and Mort. Nuff said.
I did like Cracked, but like Ant said Mad was funnier.

[LJNfan]

Mad all the way, Cracked just never measured up.

[Airdave817]

I was a HUGE Mad magazine fan back in the day. I loved the Mad musicals. You remember those - a movie or TV show parody that was a musical, with the little footnotes for what song or tune it was set to. Those were a blast.

I had a few of the paperback collections, too. Don Martin Forges Ahead, Mort Drucker Looks At...Mort Drucker, Don Martin. Ah, good times.

I could read and re-read a Mad magazine cover to cover, page by page pouring over the Mad marginals by Sergio Aragones.

I don't know why, but I just never thought of picking up Cracked or Crazy. Not even once. I guess I was just getting everything I was looking for from Mad. The other two seemd to be weak and pale imitations - at least to me.

[kingdom warrior]

Mad...everyone in school read it.

[Wee67]

I gotta go with Mad. I loved their parodies and the regular columns were better. AND I loved trying to figure out the back page before I folded it

[txteach]

Mad was lot funnier to me as a kid.

[huedell]

Hmmmm....

Not a huge fan of either when I was a kid. Comedy isn't my thing. (Or rather; it IS, since my life is a comedy....) I'd buy the Cracked Monster specials though. Monsters are cool. And for a while I read Crazy. Teen Hulk, Obnoxio and Dirk McGirk are mre my speed.

Don C.

Dirk McGuirk (and to an extent OBNOXIOS FUN PAGES) were
funnier than anything in MAD or CRACKED...in fact, CRAZY as a whole,
I found so much funnier than the other two, that I'd have to go back
and re-read old issues of 'em to make the decision for the question posed
for this thread because my memory of CRAZY being so great has made
me forget the more subtle impact of the differences in the features
MAD and CRACKED.

Make Mine CRAZY!

[ctc]

>my memory of CRAZY being so great has made
me forget the more subtle impact of the differences in the features
MAD and CRACKED.

I think there's an age thing going on too. Cracked always seemed aimed at a younger crowd. (Other than Sevrin's artwork....) Mad seemed more general audience; that is, they wrote it to be funny not to any specific crowd. Crazy seemed aimed at a teen audience; at least halfway through the run when they changed the Nebbish to Obnoxio. Hence Crazy being a lot more tasteless than the other two.

Which is why I liked it so much. The first one I remember were the Dr Strange board game, and the "Dark Phoenix" rewrite.

Don C.