[78-L] fwd: A Chance to Finally Forgive Mom for Throwing Out ThatCard

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> I had no problems with my family, since they were collectors as well..not 
>> just
>> my parents, in fact. One aunt still loves bebop and Lord Buckley, and one 
>> uncle
>> was the first in the family to call my attention to Lenny Bruce, Shelley 
>> Berman
>> and MAD Magazine well over 50 years ago.
>>
> I started reading MAD when it parodied comic strips...probably in 1953! I 
> was
> attending a private school in Chicago...Francis Parker...which was a VERY
> strange place...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 

On the other hand, their Canadian distribution was almost minimal in the 50s. I 
have never seen an original ten-cent version. The 25-cent magazine format was 
on larger news stands in 1957, and the Ballantine paperback reprints were easy 
to find and formed my introduction to the whole genre around that time, but my 
uncle (an optometrist) started me on it by leaving one of them in his waiting room.

Those reprints were horrible quality..and he was an optometrist..hmm.

dl