# An Old Mad Magazine Comic Strip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [November 12, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039 "2023-11-12T20:13:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/21 "2023-11-13T12:15:02Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I once ran across a notation on my calendear for “MSH”. I had no idea what I had meant by that, and I scratched my head about it for a good long while. > **[Area Man Has No Idea Why He Wrote 'Gazebo Convo-Resolve/Tues (!?)' In Planner...](https://www.theonion.com/area-man-has-no-idea-why-he-wrote-gazebo-convo-resolve-1819566107)** > > NEW LONDON, CT–Gil Woller, a marketing manager at Hartley Automated Systems, expressed bafflement Monday upon discovering the message "Gazebo Convo–resolve/Tues (!?)" in the June 22 space in his daily planner. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/22 "2023-11-13T12:28:19Z")
Doesn’t the fireworks boy look like Trump? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/23 "2023-11-13T16:50:54Z")
While we’re on the subject of old Mad cartoons, there’s one I could use again when the subject of censorship comes up (which is frequently nowadays), but I can’t find it. It starts with a single, multi-panel strip showing a baggy-pants comedian and his dummy trading jokes. In the following episode are all the letters the paper received complaining about each joke as being offensive to their group. Next is the censored version of the same comedian&dummy routine with all the offensive material cut out. All the balloons are blank. It was in an early (1955-1965) Mad I think. I have the complete Mad collection on DVD, but I can’t zero in on this story. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/24 "2023-11-13T17:13:10Z")
Have you tried checking the tables of contents in the issues of that period? > **[MAD comic | Read MAD comic online in high quality](https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/MAD)** > > Read MAD comic online free and high quality. Fast loading speed, unique reading type: All pages - just need to scroll to read next page ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/25 "2023-11-13T17:25:21Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > Doesn’t the fireworks boy look like Trump? Except he pays for the firecracker. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/26 "2023-11-13T18:00:08Z")
[Direct link](https://flashbak.com/mad-magazine-1968-fireworks-for-christmas-14610/) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/27 "2023-11-13T18:37:15Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Except he pays for the firecracker. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![TXRebel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@TXRebel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TXRebel)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/28 "2023-11-13T20:52:47Z")
Yeah, it took me to the Google search page. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/29 "2023-11-14T01:03:08Z")
BTW MAD Comics changed to magazine format with issue #24 in 1955. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/30 "2023-11-14T01:34:07Z")
I remember a parody of Dick Tracy where they had his little “Crimestoppers textbook”, but called it something else. It depicted a simple burglar alarm, a board with spikes to be placed under the window, and a burglar mid scream with the spikes sticking out of his foot. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039/31 "2023-11-14T04:23:32Z")
Since I can’t remember the artist or a name of the series, it’s hard to scan an index or contents for a particular drawing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-mad-magazine-comic-strip/993039.md?page=1)