Lot 313
MAD Magazine Original Illustrated Panel 5: "The Lighter Side of Hot Weather" by 50 Year Veteran of MAD, Dave Berg (1920-2002) Beloved American illustrator and cartoonist known for his celebrated career at MAD magazine after contributing to several comic books in the 1940s including two years with Stan Lee at Timely Comics (now known as Marvel Comics.) Berg contributed to Mad for 46 years beginning in 1957 until his death, appearing in 368 issues. Single panel, 24½ x 18½", with three funny strips: Top strip centers around the notorious Shell No-Pest Strips which turned out to actually rain harmful chemicals onto surfaces and the air in a room in the 1970s. But this was prior, making fun of how ugly they were gold foil cardboard and all. Here the joke is they were so ugly that's why they repelled flies. Center panel is a daughter tell her mother how muggy the previous night was filled with biting bugs until she met a guy and it was the greatest night of her life. Lower panel show a couple talking about the beastly heat and evidently triggered when someone mentions "humidity". Excellent condition signed Berg, 1974 Page 5. Estimated Value $400 - UP
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