h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Since Gaines died Mad has allowed limited advertising. Sad but true. But then...

WHAT? ME WORRY?

true true...but in exchange we get some color material added to the contents (not just the add either)

I'd give it all up for a new copy of National Lampoon that was as good as the first years.

*Buy this magazine or we'll shoot the dog.* *Playing with your food issue.* *Great blunders in Royal ettiquite.*

The first year is usualy a ground breaking experience, trying new stuff, stunning the world ..all that.

I think National Lampoon is stil being published, not sure though.
I have seen the cover you speek of, Mad ahd a simular request in the earlier issues..say, or actualy begging "Please buy this comic"
I think thats how it went... it was back when Mad was still a comic.
Later, when it was a magazine it had a cover one month that read in big bold letters "Dont buy this magazine!"

What I realy love about the old Magazines, and books for that matter, is the smell of decaying paper ***sniff sniff, ahhh***

Aaaahhhhhh. Eau de bookstorewhereyoucanbarelyturnaroundbecauseofthestacksofbooks.

National Lampoon might still exist, but long ago it lost it's edge. After the alma mater made Animal House they all went beyond only the printed word. Sigh. I remember it so fondly, waiting for each issue, reading it over and over.

Ill have to hunt up an old copy and have a peek.
I just picked up Mads latest issue, cant wait to read it