Mad Magazine, Cracked or National Lampoon in the 70s/80s?

[tib2d2]

Feeling nostalgic for famous irreverent magazines of yore.

Which one was your favorite in the 70s or 80s?

[MajorHoy]

Mad Magazine in the 1970s, but then again, it was easier to find all the paperback books reprinting a lot of earlier stuff they published.

Cracked was okay, and as I grew older I appreciated more of National Lampoon, but Mad was easier for me to connect with as a teen.

[Jack Dracula]

Feeling nostalgic for famous irreverent magazines of yore.

Which one was your favorite in the 70s or 80s?

Of those three it has to be National Lampoon. Mad magazine is a close second.

[mortari]

My subscription to mad magazine ended last year, but I still follow craked.com. I was never much into National Lampoon.

[babyblob]

Mad for sure. I havnt read it in a few years thought. Didnt care for Lampoon as much. And Cracked? it was very soso.

[Scott Taylor]

Mad Magazine because it was the mag for the common people. National Lampoon had too high of an opinion of itself and Cracked was too crass.

[williamtheday]

I liked all of them up untill the 90's-2000's, with the loss of original creators (I think NatLamp was canceled by then...even before Eddie's Christmas Vacation). I also liked Sick, Crazy, and AArchie's Madhouse. Does Not Brand Ecch count? And kudos to Cracked for introducing general raeders to Daniel Clowes!

[MajorHoy]

I liked all of them up untill the 90's-2000's, with the loss of original creators (I think NatLamp was canceled by then...even before Eddie's Christmas Vacation). I also liked Sick, Crazy, and AArchie's Madhouse. Does Not Brand Ecch count? And kudos to Cracked for introducing general raeders to Daniel Clowes!

I always thought of Mad, Cracked, and National Lampoon more as magazines (larger size, not necessarily all comics) versus something like Not Brand Ecch which was more of comic book size / format / comic book priced publication.

[ed2962]

Mad in the 70's/80's, with Cracked as a close 2nd. A little bit lower I'd place Crazy.

[seismic-2]

Mad was for junior high kids. NatLamp was for college kids. I always soncisered Cracked to be a Mad knock-off.

[XandertheWise]

i was 3 years old back then in 1983 so Cracked Magazine was my favorite because of certain movies like the Star Wars Trilogy, Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark and whatever tv shows were on at the time.

I got into Mad magazine a little bit during 1984 where they were really poking fun at Return of the Jedi and other movies

[williamtheday]

Some people said Marvel's Crazy Magazine 's mascot, The Nebbish, was a ripoff of Harvey Kurtzman's version of The Shadow (Mad v.1 #4)

[David Walton]

I'm pretty sure I read more CRACKED than MAD in the 80s.

[ed2962]

Cracked was nothing to sneeze at. They had John Severin art and Bill Ward (although as a kid, I didn't know his fetish history then ).

[Riv86672]

I was always Mad as a kid.
Every now and again I did some Cracked, though.