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...behavior problem," Gaines told Maria Reidelbach, author of Completely Mad, "a nonconformist, a difficult child." What a surprise. Yet Gaines was born and raised (in New York City, of course) to be precisely who he became. His father had been a comic-book publisher in the '30s, and when young Bill took over the company after the war, he turned to lurid fun, producing a line of successful gore-and-monster comics that 1) subsidized less profitable publications in his stable, 2) inspired and influenced future horrauteurs from Stephen King to Wes Craven and George Romero, and 3) were...
COMPLETELY MAD by Maria Reidelbach (Little, Brown; $39.95). For almost 40 years, American adolescence has been incomplete without a case of acne or a subscription to Mad magazine. This bright chronicle explains why the latter, at least, is true. While Alfred E. ("What -- Me Worry?") Neuman has watched two generations age, the sophomoric magazine has made the best of what its creator considered "a corrupt society...
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