Others say...

"Absolutely Nostalgic!"
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!"
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"
I've always enjoyed reading Mad Magazine. Now I read those issues I missed over the years.

"Everything you never needed that you need!"
This is great. Absolutely great. Everything is here. It took me awhile to figure out where the extra's from the Super Specials of the 60's-80's were. But the iron-ons,posters, stamps, stickers, and everything in-between can be found in the table of contents of those issues, and activated by just clicking on subject you want on the table of contents of the issue. The only problem was that when I couldnt find these, the help department of the company that made this was no help what so ever, and said that what I was looking for wasnt included. Which is far from the truth. But besides that complaint, everthing is as good as MAD can get......hehe.

"Absolutely MADdening"
Great idea to put 50 years of Mad in A DVD-rom. Now I can finally read the issues I missed out on, especially those that were printed before I learned how to read.