Absolutely MAD Magazine - 50+ Years
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- Read every single page as they were originally published - all the stories, letters pages, articles, and advertisements
- Includes video clip interviews from the MAD writers and clips of Spy vs Spy animation
- Over 600 complete printable issues, cover to cover, that s over 17,500 scanned pages in full color
- A truly interactive experience and can leverage the success of the late night show to introduce MAD Magazine to an entire new generation of consumers.
- Every issue of MAD Magazine on 2 DVDs
- Read every single page as they were originally published - all the stories, letters pages, articles, and advertisements
- Includes video clip interviews from the MAD writers and clips of Spy vs Spy animation
- Over 600 complete printable issues, cover to cover, that’s over 17,500 scanned pages in full color
- A truly interactive experience and can leverage the success of the late night show to introduce MAD Magazine to an entire new generation of consumers.
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Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Package Dimensions : 9.76 x 7.32 x 4.49 inches; 12.96 Ounces
- Item model number : 90005
- Date First Available : May 26, 2004
- Manufacturer : Git Corporation
- ASIN : B000HKMQ64
- Best Sellers Rank: #786 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
- #39,460 in Posters & Prints
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Product Description
Over 600 issues of Mad Magazines, (1952-2006) every regular issue (1-460),XL's, Super Special and Color Classics. Interview with the many of the writers, Spy VS Spy animation video, Spy VS Sky Mountain Dew commercials and much more.
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1. Buy the disk and put it in your disk drive.
2. Right click on a blank space on your desktop and choose NEW, and FOLDER. (create a new folder)
You see the new folder with the bottom blinking waiting for you to name it. (don't name it yet)
3. Copy the DVD contents by clicking the START button, then COMPUTER, which will bring up a list of your drives.
Find the one with the Mad DVD in it (it does show up) Right click on it and choose OPEN or EXPLORE
(but not OPEN WITH AUTOPLAY)
4. When you see the disk contents, click the ORGANIZE tab in the upper left of your screen and choose SELECT ALL. This will highlight every file and you will see that.
5. Click ORGANIZE again and choose COPY.
6. Now reduce that window so you can see the new file you created when you started this and right click in the empty space where you will name the folder and choose PASTE.
7. Now go watch TV or eat dinner. It will load all the file for about an hour or so.
8. Now you don't need the DVD. Just open the individual decade / year folder you want or double click the file called START to use the browser.
YOU'RE WELCOME
The magazines bring back memories. Especially ALL IN THE FAMILY ( GALL IN THE FAMILY) and COOL HAND LUKE ( BLUE EYED KOOK) which me and my family saw at the drive-in for the first time. Timeless insanity!
UPDATE:
iPad users really wish they could just get this on their iPad and turn the brightly colored pages like a full page book and do the finger pinch and blow up any pages or parts they want to . . . Guess what . . . I just figured that one out too.
Here you go. Download the CLOUDREADER App ( free ) in your APP STORE button on iPad. Hook your iPad to your computer which by now has the MAD Magazine already in a file. Open ITUNES and after your iPad updates, right click on the iPad wheelie thing on the left side of your ITUNES screen and when the APPS section appears use your mouse and scroll ( yea, grab the bar on the far right to pull it down ) down so that you see the same CLOUDREADER icon you put on your iPad. Click that, and it will open a window that lets you find via a SEARCH button, your MAD Magazine file (by whatever name you gave it when you finished putting it on your computer before.) When you find it and open it, all the little separate file names that you can't recognize by the code language that makes up an actual whole file, will be displayed. Right click on each one of these separately and click SELECT and you will immediately see them going into you iPad on both your computer screen AND your iPad screen. Once they are in CLOUDREADER just touch it and a comic book opens and behaves just like a comic book except you can pinch enlarge items. And you can SWIPE an entry and delete it if you wish. How about that? Took a while and some research but there you go and it wasn't hard after all.
ENJOY!
It is easy to get started too. Nothing to really install. After upgrading to Adobe 7.0 which is suggested, I was on my way. The interface is simple, you simply start with the decade you want, then narrow it down to a year, and then are presented with all the covers for the choices for that year. The regular issues are on the left and the specials on the right. I am not a huge fan of Adobe usually, but for this sort of product it does the job. It is easy enough to move pages, zoom in, etc. However I didn't realize everytime I'd look at a new issue, it opened a new tab on my bottom task bar. I must have had 30+ tabs open at one point. Oh well, such MADness. The way the Super Specials and other reprint issues are handled is OK. Instead of being able to flip through all 100 pages in a row like with the regular issues, you are only given the cover, contents, and any pages that were NEW material. All the previously reprinted material is available by clicking the link in the table of contents and you are taken to the issue it first appeared to view it that way. I suppose that makes sense rather than double and triple printing articles to save space. But just be aware, you can't page through the specials like you can the regular issues. The few Color Classics issues from the 90s and 2000s are intact however as those reprints were "new" since they were in color for the first time. Oh and on the regular issues you can also click on the content page listing to be taken right to a particualr article which is handy.
I looked briefly at the extras and there a bunch of interviews, some animated Spy Vs. Spy moments from the early days of MADTV and some "web only" articles that have appeared over the years too. Seems like some good stuff to go back and check out when I have more time, especially the interviews. It would have been nice as the other review mentioned to have some of the classic MAD audio files, but I guess you can't get too greedy.
For a little over $40, to have 50+ Years of MAD on ONE DVD... I wish I could go higher than FIVE STARS because this is a must have for all MAD fans. And even the packing is nice. Instead of a sleeve or even a plastic case, the DVD sits inside a fold out cardboard container designed to look like a MAD Book with several classic covers reprinted on it. So it will look great on a bookshelf or wherever you decide to display it.
If you love MAD, you would be ABSOLUTELY MAD to NOT buy this DVD!
The scans are in PDF format and relatively easy to read on a desktop computer monitor. I wouldn't want to try it with a cell phone or other mobile device, though. The images are good and relatively easy to read. The "marginal" material by Sergio Aragones is a but fuzzy, but then it always was to me. The "fold-in" at the end of each issue is shown normally with the file, and a separate file shows it properly folded. Pretty cool. So...why only three stars? Read on.
My desktop computer running Windows 8.1 had a very difficult time reading the files on the disk. My newer laptop running Windows 10 couldn't read it any better. It seems like it takes virtually forever for Windows Explorer to parse and display the files - every time you try to access a folder on the disk. I tried the disk in my old laptop running Windows XP and it read the disk quickly and perfectly. If you buy this, you're going to need a computer running something earlier than Windows 8 - probably XP.
Another complaint is that this collection is missing an entire two years' worth of issues - specifically 1993 and 1994. The folders are there, the PDF files are not. I'm guessing this was a manufacturing defect/oversight.
Without these two annoying problems, I would have rated this product a full five stars. This is classic stuff and well-worth having. So...caveat lector.







