The Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu

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

Marvel in a Mad mode! The complete 1955 Snafu magazine collected for the first time, featuring satire by John and Marie Severin, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Stan Lee and others in a gorgeous new package! When Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Gaines launched EC's Mad comic book as a warmly received satirical magazine, a flood of imitators soon filled newsstands, but the first and best to follow in Mad's footsteps (coinciding with the second issue of Mad magazine) was Snafu, edited and written by Kurtzman's