Byron Preiss was a book packager who loved comics and pulp science fiction. He put out some really interesting stuff - some of it in mass market paperback format. Check out his Weird Heroes series. I forget how it happened but I actually got to correspond with Byron shortly before he died in a traffic accident in 2005. Who knows how he managed to talk Harvey Kurtzman into a MAD-styled paperback series, but he did. Is it a magazine? Is it a book? Who knows? It’s NUTS! It lasted two issue-volumes.
While a pale shadow of MAD, NUTS! is still interesting for Kuzrtmaniacs like me. Collaborating with Sarah Downs, Kurtzman provides a clever book opener and three stories in this volume — all featuring two teen girls, Laurie and Versella. I love Harvey’s penwork on this. The book also has loads of other cool stuff, two Rick Geary stories, a Bob Fingerman story, a Ralph Reese MAD-like feature, and more. See the photos for the table of contents.
Condition
Like new, except for a blue harp stamp on endpaper (see photo).
Byron Preiss was a book packager who loved comics and pulp science fiction. He put out some really interesting stuff - some of it in mass market paperback format. Check out his Weird Heroes series. I forget how it happened but I actually got to correspond with Byron shortly before he died in a traffic accident in 2005. Who knows how he managed to talk Harvey Kurtzman into a MAD-styled paperback series, but he did. Is it a magazine? Is it a book? Who knows? It’s NUTS! It lasted two issue-volumes.
While a pale shadow of MAD, NUTS! is still interesting for Kuzrtmaniacs like me. Collaborating with Sarah Downs, Kurtzman provides a clever book opener and three stories in this volume — all featuring two teen girls, Laurie and Versella. I love Harvey’s penwork on this. The book also has loads of other cool stuff, two Rick Geary stories, a Bob Fingerman story, a Ralph Reese MAD-like feature, and more. See the photos for the table of contents.
Condition
Like new, except for a blue harp stamp on endpaper (see photo).