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Monday, February 14

Doug Gilford's Mad Cover Site

Devotion is one way to describe it... This guy has created a visual database of every Mad magazine ever published. From 1952 until now...

It's quite a nostalgia trip really - see what was popular over the years, see how the magazine changed, see how it never changed. I assume these are the US Mad covers only, some of which were used for the Australian edition no doubt, some of which weren't. I doubt there's an Australian version of this - I collected that for several years, and now know a few of the people who did various covers, and still do.

Anyway, here's the cover from March 1975, the month of my birth: