Did any of you read MAD Magazine as a kid?

My brother was interviewed by Hyman Rickover during his application to join the nuclear submarine program in the US Navy. Midway through the interview Rickover asked if he read the comics in the paper. My brother said he did, He was immediately asked what Pogo did that morning. My brother thanked his lucky stars that when he was getting ready for the meeting very early because he didn't sleep, he had read that mornings issue of Pogo. You just never know when non sense turns out to be a blessing. He was accepted in the program retiring as a Lt. Commander.
 
I read it when I could get it.

I think this is the original image, well before Mad magazine and before he was given the name that became familiar. There was a candy shop run by retirees, and they had this image on the wall. I knew the image was old at that time. I remember being pretty young and just staring at it, though I was old enough to read too. Still, the candies were my main interest.

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JBR said:
I read it when I could get it.

I think this is the original image, well before Mad magazine and before he was given the name that became familiar. There was a candy shop run by retirees, and they had this image on the wall. I knew the image was old at that time. I remember being pretty young and just staring at it, though I was old enough to read too. Still, the candies were my main interest.

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Wikipedia says:
Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humor magazine Mad. The character's distinct smiling face, gap-toothed smile, freckles, red hair, protruding ears, and scrawny body dates back to late 19th-century advertisements for painless dentistry, also the origin of his "What, me worry?" motto. The magazine's founder and original editor, Harvey Kurtzman, began using the character in 1954. He was named "Alfred E. Neuman" (a name Kurtzman had previously used in an unconnected way) by Mad's second editor Al Feldstein in 1956. Neuman's likeness has appeared on all but a handful of the magazine's covers, over 550 issues. He has almost always been rendered in a front view but has occasionally been seen in silhouette, or directly from behind.
 
A woman I worked with in Montana for some reason ended up on the Ranch where the editor of Mad Magazine had retired. I think it was in in the late 60s, and she and a girlfriend had a very friendly conversation with Al Feldstein, the founder and original editor. Her girlfriend told him how much she enjoyed Mad Magazine as a kid, and Feldstein asked the woman I worked with if she too read Mad Magazine to which she replied, "No, my parents wouldn't let me read it." And they all laughed about it. A lot of rich celebrities own ranches in Montana to get away from the public, and usually they run fans off their land so the editor struck me as a pretty nice guy.
 
I kind of remember a football poem from one years ago.
Might not be exact, but pretty close.

Behold this pile, this fleshy heap
of guards and tackles seven deep
Beneath them all and gasping air
we find the fullback smiling there
What makes him grin this dopey clod
whose head is crunched into the sod?
Because he's just found out that he
is lying on the referee.
 
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