Devotion is one way to describe it… This guy has created a visual database of every Mad magazine ever published. From 1952 until now…
It’s quite a nostalgia trip really – see what was popular over the years, see how the magazine changed, see how it never changed. I assume these are the US Mad covers only, some of which were used for the Australian edition no doubt, some of which weren’t. I doubt there’s an Australian version of this – I collected that for several years, and now know a few of the people who did various covers, and still do.
Anyway, here’s the cover from March 1975, the month of my birth:
