Mad Strikes Back!

Beginning in '55, William M. Gaines began presenting reprints of material for Mad in black-&-white paperbacks, the first being The Mad Reader. Many of these featured new covers by Mad cover artist Norman Mingo. This practice continued into the 2000s, with more than 100 Mad paperbacks published. Gaines made a special effort to keep the entire line of paperbacks in print at all times, & the books were frequently reprinted in new editions with different covers.
Mad also frequently repackaged its material in a long series of "Super Special" format magazines, beginning in '58 with two concurrent annual series entitled The Worst from Mad & More Trash from Mad, which later became the Super-Specials. These reprint issues were sometimes augmented by exclusive features such as posters, stickers &, on a few occasions, recordings on flexi-disc & comicbook formatted inserts reprinting material from the comicbook era of the magazine.