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Letter: MAD magazine killed by PC culture
MAD  magazine
The face of Alfred E. Neuman is framed by attendees at the DC booth during the first day of Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif., n this July 20, 2017 file pho. MAD, a long-running satirical magazine, will be leaving newsstands after its August 2019 issue. The illustrated humor magazine will still be available in comic shops and through mail to subscribers. - photo by Associated Press
Back in 1952, when I was 14 years old, the first MAD comic book hit the newsstands. They have a long tradition of using creative and thoughtful humor to inspire young people to be skeptical of almost everything on the planet.