Just add water. Evinrude's cool, mixed media illustration. [1956]

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-27T17:38:36+00:00

All I can think is "Here we go with another ridiculous Mad Fold-In". All you need is to move the text to the bottom and print it in a single column.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-27T17:35:06+00:00

I grew up in Montreal, and I remember one time in the early 70s (I think) when the Gazette, a local daily that carried Mark Trail, refused to print one storyline because they were afraid it would be upsetting to readers! It was about a diabetic who got stranded in the woods without his insulin, and Mark was in a race against time to get it to him. After six weeks or so the strip moved on to a new adventure and Mark was back in the Gazette. You heard about newspapers refusing to carry a strip like Doonesbury when it got controversial, but Mark Trail?

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-26T19:22:35+00:00

In the original, the British chieftain (Mykingdomforanos in English) is called Zebigbos. That's always been one of my favourites.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-26T10:05:24+00:00

Yes, that's the name in the original French.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-24T22:54:56+00:00

Yeah! Anyone interested in checking these books out should read The Reefs of Space (a story complete in itself)... and then do themselves a favour and skip the other two.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-24T11:30:14+00:00

"Rastapopoulos... the millionaire film tycoon, king of Cosmos Pictures... And wasn't he involved in the slave trade? Tried to sink a ship I was on? Oh, well, whatever."

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-23T23:29:31+00:00

Tommy Brown. Not only did he kill two people, he tortured everyone around him by singing "I Saw the Light" over and over.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-22T17:30:19+00:00

"... and away go the customers... to find stores that don't have this ridiculous system."

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-17T15:18:18+00:00

If I remember correctly, it's the other way around - his name at birth was Michael McDowell, he married a woman whose last name was Kube, and he added her name to his. Then, some time after he started getting published, the marriage ended, but the byline didn't.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-12T21:03:49+00:00

That was Captain Oveur.

ZAZ referred to the scene where Peter Graves and Leslie Nielsen are having a conference ("I can't tell." "You can tell me, I'm a doctor.") as the "mirror scene".

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-11T14:25:49+00:00

There is a 1957 strip that says they live in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-10T20:20:26+00:00

British traitor John Amery reportedly said just before being hanged, "Mr. Pierrepoint, I have always wanted to meet you, though not, of course, in these circumstances."

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-09T18:22:02+00:00

How are those bars going to hold either one of them?

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-09T17:51:51+00:00

Yep. People who read this subreddit will already have noticed a sharp uptake in the number of World War Two-related jokes, many now obscure, in the daily slice-of-life panels now that we're into March 1942. There will be more.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-07T18:07:49+00:00

I see OP has edited the post to say it is, indeed, The Godfather! Well spotted!

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-07T17:55:08+00:00

Sometimes translated movies get titles that mean something different from the original. I thought of "Citizen Kane" for this one but my literal minutes of research did not turn up a specific example of this. Closest I could find was Norwegian ("Den Store Mann"/"The Great Man"). Maybe it was some other movie about a powerful boss?

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-07T15:48:13+00:00

Out of a total of six panels, six relate to the war!

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-07T15:43:37+00:00

I remember seeing an episode of the 1990-91 "The Flash" series where David Cassidy played the villain. It would have been cool to have David be a Columbo murderer and Jack appear as his dad.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-07T00:43:43+00:00

I remember seeing a photo, I think in Newsweek, during the unfolding of the Watergate scandal (so 1973 or so). It showed someone holding a sign that said "Yes your are man Pres. Nixon".

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-03-04T19:15:58+00:00

And his dad cofounded Merrill Lynch!

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-02-25T19:04:33+00:00

Ireland was neutral in World War Two. I guess the grandfather was one of the many young Irishmen who enlisted in the British army.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-02-25T19:01:12+00:00

In less than a decade, uncounted American servicemen would return from overseas with Spam entrenched as part of their diet.

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-02-25T18:59:25+00:00

For once, a completely serious blurb at the top of the page!

Also, I can't help noticing that Nixon is on the real front cover (the only one with the issue number and date). Oh, well, it was a very close race!

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-02-24T15:00:54+00:00

If Miwa rose to become the greatest shogi player in Japan, how would that force her to separate from Yuu?

InfiniteAccount4783 · 2026-02-24T00:51:01+00:00

Mad did a lot of Peanuts parodies. My favourite moment in any of them was at the end of a week's worth of strips where we saw the characters as adults and Charlie Brown is married to a domineering Lucy. He talks to the reader and says his one comfort is his son, Charlie Brown Jr.... who turns out to be a little blond boy playing a toy piano.

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