Unconditionally Mad Part B - The First Unauthorized History of Mad Magazine (hardback)

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Is he MAD? Mark Arnold author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If You're Cracked You're Happy Volumes Won and Too</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> has done it again with the very first COMPLETE </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>MAD</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> history since the 1990s. He's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>UNCONDITIONALLY MAD</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>!!!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This two-volume set (Part 1 and Part B) covers the entire 70+ year history of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>MAD</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> magazine. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Part B</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> picks up from Editor Al Feldstein's retirement in 1984 and new Editors Nick Meglin and John Ficarra taking over. The Usual Gang of Idiots start to retire and pass on and a new generation of Idiots were added to the mix. Meglin retired in 2004 and Ficarra in 2018 when the New York operations were closed and moved to Burbank California. MAD started over with #1 and another new Editor Bill Morrison. It was a promising new start until the powers-that-be decided to change </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>MAD</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> over into a reprint title where it remains to this day. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The lawsuits the hirings the firings the ghosts the flatbugs the spies the FBI the plants the gooney birds and the celebrities are all contained here along with many new and archival interviews with The Usual Gang of Idiots. It's a story that's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>UNCONDITIONALLY MAD</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>!</span></p>