Through the Years: Mad Magazine

Mad Magazine has been around for over 50 years, about 5 of them funny. Here is a look at the magazine through the years and events that shaped America.

1952: 1st Issue

December 1956: Alfred E. Newman's first issue

April 1959: April Fools Issue

January 1961: Election Issue (button reads "I Like Dick")

October 1961: JFK

December 1963: Sexploitation

October 1963: Trouble with Cuba

June 1967: Racial Issue

April 1968: 60's Drug Scene

September 1969: The Generation Gap

April 1971: Watergate

April 1974: Mad is number 1

January 1976: Jaws

March 1976: America's Bicentennial

October 1977: Rocky

January 1978: Star Wars

June 1979: Animal House

January 1982: E.T.

December 1985: Reagan and Rambo

March 1987: Max Headroom

September 1991: Gulf War

July 1992: Bush pukes in Japan

December 1994: OJ Simpson Trial

September 1997: Bashing President Clinton

May 1998: Titanic

July 2000: Bush-Gore Election

November 2001: September 11th

January 2005: Janet Jackson

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