SUNDAY FUNNIES!! #23 MAD's GOPO POSSUM!

Issue #23 is the last of the MAD as a comic book.  In the next issue, MAD #24 they had grown into the sophistication of a comic magazine..

The first story is of course, Lampooning Pogo Possum.  It was drawn by Wally Wood and written by editor Harvey Kurtzman.   Kurtzman may have put an extra zing in this story.  One time Pogo's creator Walt Kelly interviewed Kurtzman for a job for a New York Newspaper.  Kurtzman felt like Kelly gave him the bum's rush.

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