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Surely MAD's finest artist was the late and wonderful Don Martin, master of the cartoon sound-effect("brugga-brugga-brugga -THWOON": a ceiling caving in), and whose characters were wonderful lantern-jawed innocents. I still have a paperback I bought in about ?1970? called "Don Martin drops 12 stories" and will NOT send it to the school fair...

One lantern jawed character I remember from eons ago was Carbunkle who always let his normal looking (For Mad magazine)friend,Fester Bestertester,lead him astray.Can't remember if it was Don Martin who drew the characters,but I think it probably was.

yes both were don martin charachters one of my particticular favs was when he went into a version of singing ing in the rain and in the next frame you see he he was passing a building with a large banner holding ag a spitting contest

Yeah..thats a classic.. I can see it now

some of Don's earlier work is pretty bazzar

Don Martin Passed away some years ago, ive got a news paper article somewhere anouncing it.

He did some work for Cracked Magazine too or maybe it was Crazy! Mag
I forget which but i own it none the less

Called in a book shop in Scarborough a couple of weeks ago and,lo and behold,what was on the shelf - Don Martin Comes On Strong.Needless to say,it didn't stay there very long.Certainly brought back many memories and still raised a smile or few.

Im glad you enjoyed it, I think I have all of Don Martins books.
Im a collector of all things Mad, I even aquired a Alfred E Neuman bobble head doll last summer.

I read MAD's Don Martin Steps Further Out about twenty-something years ago. It was full of FLADDA FLADDA and SQUOINK effects. (SQUOINK is the noise when you accidentally poke yourself in the eye with a towel rail when getting out of the shower.)

FOING-SAPPP is the sound of someone having bent back a steel saw and letting it recoil and hit somebody in the face.