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Hey Humbugs! Don't Panic! It's madder it's crazier it's sicker it trumps them all! You'll crack up with this lampooning book! Brilliantly combine satire magazines super-hero send-ups monster magazines sexy teenage girls ala Betty and Veronica surrealism beatniks hippies and wackiness and you've got the inimitable Madhouse Madhouse was the birthplace of the bewitching Sabrina the Teenage Witch Captain Sprocket and the comic host with the most Clyde Didit Archie's best artists Dan "Betty and Veronica" DeCarlo Sam "Jughead" Schwartz and even cartoonists like Wally Wood filled Madhouse's pages with the laughs lunacy and nutty fun - oh and hot teenage chicks! Craig Yoe collects the best of the best stories and introduces Madhouse with rare art and behind-the-scenes secrets As with the entire
line of Yoe Books the reproduction techniques employed strive to preserve the look and feel of expensive vintage comics Painstakingly remastered enjoy the closest possible recreation of reading these comics when first released
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Hey Humbugs! Don't Panic! It's madder it's crazier it's sicker it trumps them all! You'll crack up with this lampooning book! Brilliantly combine satire magazines super-hero send-ups monster magazines sexy teenage girls ala Betty & Veronica surrealism beatniks hippies & wackiness & you've got the inimitable Madhouse Madhouse was the birthplace of the bewitching Sabrina the Teenage Witch Captain Sprocket & the comic host with the most Clyde Didit Archie's best artists Dan " Betty & Veronica" De Carlo Sam " Jughead" Schwartz & even cartoonists like Wally Wood filled Madhouse's pages with the laughs lunacy & nutty fun
- oh & hot teenage chicks! Craig Yoe collects the best of the best stories & introduces Madhouse with rare art & behind-the-scenes secrets As with the entire line of Yoe Books the reproduction techniques employed strive to preserve the look & feel of expensive vintage comics Painstakingly remastered enjoy the closest possible recreation of reading these comics when first released

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