it's only been about a year since i found out that there were trading cards showing mad magazine covers. i was hoping to find one that featured the issue that included a letter from a young gcrl, but was not successful. however, i did find this one to add to my "meaningful and just because" mini-collection
it features the october 1988 issue which is from a time after i was collecting and subscribing, but it fits as a cross between two of my primary collecting habits of my youth since it is a trading card and one that shows a baseball card on the cover at that.
here's the back of the card - no stats for alfred e. neuman
but no al jaffee fold-in, either. actually, it would have been perfect for the producer of these cards, something called lime rock international, to have put fold-ins on the card backs and make collectors decide whether or not to mangle the cards.
i still have my mad magazine collection, but i sold off my paperbacks years ago. even though it is not regularly published anymore, i did see a special issue on display at a cvs last month and for a moment i thought about taking a look. that moment passed and i realized later that i am an old person now.
A. Loved Mad Magazine as a kid. Didn't keep any issues from my childhood, but I have purchased a few single issues for my collection over the eyars.
ReplyDeleteB. One of those issues is the one featured in this post. By the way, the back cover of this issue actually features 8 more 1988 Topps parody cards. I showed it off in a post back in 2013 if you want to check it out. Just search 1988 Topps oddballs.
I used to get the occasional issue of Cracked when I was a kid, but never really got into Mad.
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