MAD: The Complete Harvey Kurtzman Years

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

For the first time, the entire original run of MAD comics and magazine by creator, editor, writer and cover artist Harvey Kurtzman in a lavish five-volume collector's box set, in oversized facsimile, with a wealth of bonus material. In 1952, the first MAD comic was created as a way for the writer/editor/artist Harvey Kurtzman to do something quick and easy in between his elaborately researched war comics for EC. Against all odds, sales success soon turned it into his main job and inspired him to