MAD VOLUME 1 HARDCOVER BOOK RARE BLACK AND WHITE VERSION HC EC COMICS LIBRARY
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This is the E.C. Comics Library hardcover Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD Volume 1, published by Russ Cochran in 1986. It collects the first six issues of MAD as a comic book before it became MAD Magazine. This is the extremely rare black and white version. I have read that there were only 1000 MAD black and white sets produced, and they are much rarer than the color sets (which themselves are fairly hard to find). Please note that this auction is for Vol. 1 only. This is an oversized hardback book, containing issues #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, and #6 of the brilliant humor and satire series originally published in the early 1950's. The issues in this book were originally published from October 1952 - September 1953. This book features some of the greatest early EC comedy, and this was one of the most offbeat titles that William Gaines published before the infamous witch-hunts of the 1950's brought about the end of the EC line, when the "Approved By The Comics Code Authority" stamp went into place (as a result in part of the infamous efforts led by Dr. Fredric Wertham, author of Seduction of the Innocent (SOTI)). This hardback book features great hysterical stories and covers with artwork by legendary artists including Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Bill Elder, John Severin, and Harvey Kurtzman. Included are many well-known classic hilarious
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