Customer Reviews
mad lovers dream 
2008-05-18
this is a good addition to the 7 cd rom edition. i would recomend owning both. how about putting all the records and music on a hard disc for us insane collectors. great products!!!
Absolutely Mad Magazine 50+ years 2008-05-15
This is ABSOLUTELY a great way of sharing a magazine I enjoyed as a youngster an teen. What great memories and wonderful satirical writing!
Save Big Money Dept. 2008-05-09
I have every issue of Mad Magazine from 1980 to present. I also just went to a used comic store last week and bought 20 issues of Mad from the 1970's for about $80 dollars and now you mean to tell me I can have EVERY single issue from the 1950's to 2006 on one putrid disc for only $32.99? Jumping veeblefetzers! Guess I'll just have to burn my original issues and get this moronic thing today!
Excellent!!!! 2008-05-07
Its the best collection of MAD magazines out there and should not be missed by MAD fans.The PDF file quality is excellent and is easy to read and carry around in various gadgets.
Its a steal for $33 at Amazon.Go get it!!
30Something Dollars and Some Change? Cheap! 2008-05-07
For those of us who'd grown up with Mad Magazine, the kind who ran to the variety story on the corner looking for every new issue (sometimes paying, sometimes not) and grabbed those special edition paperbacks off the racks (again, sometimes paying...), ABSOLUTELY MAD MAGAZINE: 50+ YEARS is something we all should have sitting on our shelves.
The 2 DVD-ROM set spans the years 1952-2006, including issues 1-460, along with the XL and Super Special editions as well. As a bonus this collection contains video clips of interviews with the magazine's writers and the Spy vs. Spy animated shorts from the early days of the late-night comedy series Mad TV.
The downside to this DVD-ROM set is minimal. Unfortunately, there are resolution problems with some the pages, especially with Sergio Aragones' Mad Marginals. Otherwise, this is an exceptionally comprehensive collection which will provide a longtime Mad Magazine fan with much nostalgia and enjoyment.
Huh ? Me Worry ? 
2008-05-06
Absolutely MAD DVD Collection collects over 600 issues of MAD magazine, one of the classic humor magazines. Every issue is here, from 1952 to 2006 -- 460 issues in all. It also includes most of the Special Editions: XL's, Super Special and Color Classics. There's even interviews with the many of the writers, Spy VS Spy animation video, Spy VS Sky Mountain Dew commercials and much more.
460 regular issues on 1 disc that fits in the palm of your hand... :) 2008-04-22
Absolutely MAD Magazine - 50+ Years I read lots of reviews about this before purchasing it. The reviews that concerned me the most were the ones about the quality of the scans... I started getting Mad in January of 1982. That DVD ROM issue looks about as good as the original did... Keep in mind I don't think the originals really looked all that great... The scan isn't going to be better than the original... I mean... you can't shine a turd... I personally didn't buy the magazine with the intent of matting and framing it...
It's funny stuff low or high quality! For $35.00 you really can't go wrong... You just can't...
If you do buy it, when it comes to looking at the super specials... You have to click on the table of contents to view the pages... It took me a while to figure this out...:( This is because most of the super specials are just repeats of older mags... The table of contents is links to the older mags...
Absolutely Nostalgic! 
2008-04-10
This magazine started the same year I did. So the expectations for this products were high. PDF is the right format for this kind of project. You'll need a dual layer DVD ROM - it's a little over 7Gb in size. I'm very happy with the product and I should know, since I grew up on this (ig)noble publication! Congratulations to "the usual gang of idiots."
MAD Comic Books 1-23 Look Great! 2008-03-02
The image quality of the MAD magazine issues presented in this DVD has been discussed in other reviews. While it is true that many of the scanned images lack clarity and focus, most of the image quality of the first 23 color MAD comic books is outstanding.
I grew up reading these classic comic panels in the Ballantine Books paperback series: "The Mad Reader", "Mad Strikes Back", "Inside Mad", "Utterly Mad and "The Brothers Mad." The biggest problem with the MAD paperback books is that they are in black and white. Now, I own the enter collection of MAD comic books and they are in color.
The artwork of Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Jack Davis, John Severin, Bernard Krigstein, Russ Heath and Basil Wolverton probably looks better on this DVD presentation than it did in the original comic books. Apparently, the artwork from these first 23 issues was either carefully preserved or carefully restored -- maybe both.
While yellowed, crumbling, torn and tattered original copies of the first 23 MAD comic books are routinely offered for sale at prices above $100 each, the entire collection of these 23 MAD classics is available on this DVD for under $35. I also enjoyed seeing the covers and contents of all of the other MAD magazines that I read growing up. I am very glad that I bought this DVD.
By the way, it took me a while to discover that the full search capabilities of the MAD DVD are enabled by the file: (DVD drive letter):\MAD1.pdx. Double-clicking on this file after opening Adobe Reader will enable a search of all issues MAD contained on the DVD.
Mad "Hits" The Computer 2008-02-20
I've always enjoyed reading Mad Magazine. Now I read those issues I missed over the years.
