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CGC certified: Fair (1.0). Cover detached and completely split. Cream to off-white pages. Cover: Harvey Kurtzman Scripts: H. Kurtzman. Art: Will Elder Wally Wood, Jack Davis H. Kurtzman, John Severin. GPAnalysis: A 1.0 sold for $450 in June 2020; a .5 sold for $680 in March 2021; a 1.5 sold for $276 in March 2020. Harvey Kurtzman was miffed that Al Feldstein made lots more loot than he did, despite the grueling effort Kurtzman put into writing and editing his two EC mags, compared to Feldstein's relative ease at cranking out stories for the seven titles he edited. Bill Gaines suggested a money-making solution: EC would launch a new title for Kurtzman to edit, thus boosting his pay by 50%. The result was sheer MADness. "Kurtzman came back with a proposal for a satire magazine, one that would lampoon the comics themselves.... Kurtzman brought his small crew of artists, with whom he had been working on his war titles for a year and a half, to the project.... The look and writing were wild, a combination of the outrageousness and violence of Tex Avery's animated cartoons with the polyethnic dialogue and logic of George Herriman's Krazy Kat." — Maria Reidelbach, Completely MAD: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine. Little, Brown: 1991, pp. 20-21. A deluxe limited edition of 12 hardcover catalogues is available, in addition to a small number of softcovers. 400 lots, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcover $40, deluxe hardcover with dust jacket and limitation plate $200. Eight of the 12 hardcovers are pre-ordered and the rest will go quickly, so reserve yours now. To order, contact [email protected] . Consignments welcome for PBA's Spring 2022 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Find out why PBA is the new fan-fave of comics auctioneers. "This is some of the best commentary I've yet seen on the quality of the content of comic books... Priceless." — R. Crumb. Send inquiries to [email protected] .