MAD, Don Martin. Small archive

Containing a.o.: (1) Typescript letter signed in felt-tip pen, to Flemish "post war avant-garde" poet Gust Gils, 1 leaf, 27 x 18 cm, recto only, w. MAD heading, dated January 11, 1961 (=1962), in the orig. stamped addressed envelope. Responding to a typescript letter of Gust Gils (dated December 14th 1961, present in carbon copy), asking Martin for permission to print some of his drawings in a Flemish paper and asking for Martin's portrait. Don Martin politely declines, explaining that his work only appears in MAD and that the editors insist he keeps readers in the dark. "They'd be disillusioned to learn that I don't have floppy feet and dangling arms. Actually, I'm thirty years old and look like a normal clean-cut American male; whatever that may mean to you. Perhaps you've never thought of Americans as normal or clean cut." (2) The completely MAD Don Martin. Don Martin's best cartoons from Mad magazine. Ed. A. Feldstein and J. DeFuccio. N.Y., Warner Paperback Library, 1974, first edition, unpaginated, orig. wr., 4to. Frontwr. loose. With autograph signed dedication on inside frontwr.: "Best regards to Jaco Groot in Amsterdam. Don Martin... June '74 in the U.S.A." -and 20 others, mostly newspaper clippings but also incl. a sales list of autographed prints and The completely MAD Don Martin (2007, 2 hcloth vols. in slipcase, folio).

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