SUNDAY FUNNIES!!! MAD's SUPERDUPERMAN

The story was written by editor Harvey Kurtzman and illustrated by Wallace Wood.  This is the first story of MAD I read..  I was in the 7th grade at the time.  We visited by grandmother and while the family was visiting with them I walked over to their neighbors to visit a classmate Archie Richarson.  Archie had a unique talent:  In the boys' restroom at school he could piss all the up the wall to the ceiling.  

While visiting with Archie that evening I went through he comics and he had a strange looking one, it said MAD on the cover.  I read the first story  (this) and my life changed.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! MAD's #2, GOOKUM!

Second Issue of MAD.

Story  by  Harvey   Kurtztman; Art by Wally Wood

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SUNDAY FUNNIES: MAD's BLOBS.

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The other day while driving I got behind a garbage truck on a hilly curvy road.  I knew it would be making frequent stops to pick up garbage at the curb.  I didn't want to take the chance of going around it.  I might as well enjoy the scenery.  

MAN!  I saw some automation I have never seen before.  No one was hanging on the back of the truck to hop off at each top and grab a waiting garbage can and dump and contents and quickly put the garbage can back where he grabbed it from and hop back hanging on the back of the truck for the next stop.

It wasn't like that.

I was amazed to see a long metalic arm reach outward, then downward, picked up the garbage can and turned it upside down and emptied the contents, put it back and move on.

Automation is putting and end to manual labor.  Of course the garbage company will gain in no more calling in sick or having to hand out pay checks. But the poor manual laborers will even be poorer.
Automation is taking over our lives.  Doing physical chores will be less and less.

Which reminds me of a story in the first MAD Comic book,  issue #1, in the early 1950s, by Harvey Kurtzman and art by Wally Wood.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! The Jackie Gliston Story

Remember Jackie Gleason?  Do you remember the Honey Mooners?  Well, this story is not about him, it is about Jack E. Glisten.  Story by editor Harvey Kurtzman and illustrated by Wallace Wood, ripped from the pages of MAD #25.  

Now, Awaay We Go!

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Hansel & Greta!

From TRUMP satire magazine in the 1950s.   The HANSEL & GRETAL story as you have never known.  Art by Wally Wood

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Tales From the Crypt, Terror Ride

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Wallace Woods' BUCKY

Here is Wallace Wood's creation Bucky.  Wallace Wood is a charter member of MAD comic book and MAD Magazine, but this isn't MAD.

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Memorial Special, CHOOSE SIDES

This is Memorial Day Weekend, that means you get a comic about soldiers.  This story was first published in EC Publishing FRONTLINE COMBAT.  It was written by editor Harvey Kurtzman and illustrated by Wallace Wood.

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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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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! EC SHOCK'S "THE WHIPPING".

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There is nothing funny about today's Funnies.  It is about vigilante punishment.  Art by Wally Wood.