Collected here for the first time in one easy-to-dispose-of volume is an inside look at the outside of "MAD". Launched in 1952 as a ten-cent comic book, "MAD" now has its very own roundup of humorous covers with running commentary by the magazine's poet laureate, Frank Jacobs. Join idiot cover boy Alfred E. Neuman as he's depicted by cover artists Norman Minto, Kelly Freas, Richard Williams, Mort Drucker, chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs, and Leonardo da Vinci. 450 illustrations, 400 in color.