vpdogjoe:
I remember how much I loved reading Mad magazines when I was a kid, They always made me laugh. Loved the cartoon of Spy Vs. Spy, black and white spy characters, always trying to kill each other off! I wish I had kept the MAD's I had. This copy I found recently on eBay. It caught my eye because it had something funny on Karloff, Price, and others monsters. It features a parody of the musical ANNIE GET YOUR GUN...here called MANNIE GET YOUR GHOUL. It's got all of your Universal monsters-- Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Mummy, Dracula and Creature of Black Lagoon, and some others I don't know. Like all the MAD parodies, it is very clever story.
Toy Ranch:
I loved Mad too, and I subscribed to it for my son last year. Then they started coming and it's not the same magazine anymore. It's not the funny satire of our youth, it's biting and mean and unfunny now.
typhooforme:
Added photos of some of the monsters for Cuz Sara! Great stuff!
gracebuster:
Look at that Frankenstein, clearly they had a picture of Chaney jr. infront of them.
Love the CREATURE ,as well.
egorschamber:
If you really wanna see MAD horror spoofs at their most glorious, track down some of the work done even further back, when EC bullpen artists like Wallace Wood, Jack Davis and Will Elder (all very obviously monster kids themselves) did comic strip lampoons like PING PONG and FRANK N. STEIN for the early MAD comic-book issues (1-23), and fabulous panel-art features like "Eccchh, Teen Age Son of Thing" (#40) and "The MAD Horror Primer" (#49) for the magazine reincarnation. Elder also did a Frankenstein movie satire with dead-on caricatures of the original film's players for Harvey Kurtzman's spinoff HUMBUG (#9); it was reprinted in FAMOUS MONSTERS #1.
I wish I could show you Wally Wood's entire "MAD Horror Primer" here (it's one of my favorite pieces by my favorite comic artist), but I found some of the original panels online from a 2004 Heritage auction (replete with smudges and acetate overlay lettering):
See larger image here: http://myweb.wvnet.edu/e-gor/UMA/Mad49HorrorPrimerKong2.jpg
Spread throughout this incredible piece are Wally's tributes to Karloff, both Chaneys, Carradine, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, the Creature, Kong, and even Zacherley (among others)! Ya gotta see it!
Though the original comics and early magazines can be pricey, a lot of this stuff has been reprinted many times and should be easy to find. The complete comic-strip Kong spoof "Ping Pong" AND "The MAD Horror Primer" are both in the 1997 collection MAD ABOUT THE FIFTIES, which is chockful of other terrific stuff from the Golden Age of MAD.
(And meanwhile, over at CRACKED, another EC and early MAD comix artist, John Severin, was doing wonderful monster tributes too, as noted elsewhere in these threads!)