The MAD MORALITY Vintage 1972 Signet MAD Paperback. 5th Printing Vernard Eller

The Mad Morality

by Vernard Eller

Signet, 1972, 5th Printing

From the back cover:

For years "35¢-cheap" MAD has been dispensing large doses of old-fashioned morality to its readers under the cover of "garbage"—leading its poor unsuspecting audience to believe that it was just another magazine. But now a well-known theologian blows MAD's cover and proves just how moral it really is.

From takeoffs on the current drop of dull movies to biting satires on American politics to caricatures of the typical middleclass family, MAD's "trash" is calculated comment on modern society. Concentrating on the Ten Commandments of the Judaic-Christian tradition, Vernard Eller reveals favorite MAD articles for the subversive moral documents they really are.

In fact, it's almost as if the editors pledge monthly allegiance to an 11th commanment—"Thou shalt put down all sham and hypocrisy."

MAD readers (and sane people, too) will enjoy rereading many popular MAD pieces and will be entertained by Eller's common sense commentary—which, like MAD's, is sometimes irreverant and satiric, but always based on a sound moral code.

Pages in unmarked condition. Cover has some wear to edges and corners. Creasing at top corner of front cover, and bottom corner of back cover. Some discoloration to cover. Tiny blemishes on page edges, does not affect inside of pages