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Before Mad: The History of Educational Comics

Images Courtesy of Comic-Covers.com Mad Magazine, the subversive satire-laced magazine best known as the home of Alfred E. Neuman has, in its sixty years of existence, become an American institution. The magazine's original publisher, Educational Comics (EC), was founded by Max Gaines in 1945 and specialized in titles such as Picture Stories from the Bible. But EC eventually gained notoriety and critical acclaim for their line of well-drawn, socially conscious and often gruesome suspense, horror, and... READ ON

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)