* *I was reading MAD magazine in the lae 80s, but most of the ones I read were from comic book stores or garage sales, which meant they were late 60s, and 70s. My mother was the one who clued me in to the iconic Don Martin flapping foot.
Chris On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]>wrote: > > Steve Timko wrote: > > > I was surprised to see the Don Martin joke on "Family Guy" last night. > > Seems like that would be too obscure, Did that many people read MAD > > magazine? Was Martin around that long? Is there any connection between > > Martin and Seth MacFarlane? > > With the caveat that Seth MacFarlane is not the only writer on "Family > Guy," and so it may not have been "his" reference in the first place: > he's about the right age to have started reading MAD in the early 1980s, > when their circulation was well over 1 million (peak circulation was > something like 3-4 million in the early-to-mid-1970s). > > New Don Martin work appeared in MAD up until 1988 (and then in Cracked for > a few years after that), and then there were the reprints that appeared in > the "Super Special" issues, plus various paperback collections that were > readily available. > > (I can speak from experience on this because I'm about the same age as > MacFarlane, and read new issues of MAD regularly from 1982 to 1992 -- I > also had some Don Martin paperbacks that were "inherited" from my father.) > > -- > Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> > <http://www.ellwanger.tv> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
