Marie Severin addressed on at least two occasions the coloring of art created or edited by Harvey Kurtzman. In remarks published in 1995, she said “Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers.” And in response to a 1986 question about Kurtzman and MAD covers, she said “Now I might have interpreted, but I don’t remember. I think he did every one of them. I might have helped out with some production or something, but it’s all Harvey” (Ringgenberg 2016, 88).
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References:
Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
Ringgenberg, Steven. 2016. “Marie Severin.” In The Comics Journal Library Vol. 10: The EC Artists Part 2, edited by Michael Dean, 84–95. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books.
Ringgenberg, Steven. [2016] 2018. “An Interview with Marie Severin.” The Comics Journal, September 5. Accessed June 18, 2023. https://www.tcj.com/an-interview-with-marie-severin.
Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly about Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.
Every woman in the story uses the line, "...Hey Joe!...You got chewing gum?"
Parody of the G.I. Joe comic published by Ziff-Davis (https://www.comics.org/series/781/ and https://www.comics.org/series/848/). G.I. Schmoe wears a flower on his helmet and uses his rifle as a club, both of which are characteristic of the Ziff-Davis comic.
Parody of the Alan Ladd 1953 film "Shane."
Labeled as Chapter 35.
Script: Sources vary. De Fuccio credit is from The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2; previous indexer had 'Harvey Kurtzman ?'. Kitchen and Buhle assert that “Harvey Kurtzman wrote every word from front to back” of this issue (2009, 83).
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Reference:
Kitchen, Denis, and Paul Buhle. 2009. The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics. New York: Abrams ComicArts.
As of 23 September 1954 Mad magazine was owned by Educational Comics, Inc., William M. Gaines, J. K. Gaines, and V. E. MacAdie.
May have the first use of the word "potrzebie" in MAD. Answer to one letter notes that Marie Severin is the colorist on ALL E.C. magazines. Also noted is that the E.C. Fan-Addict Club has about 10,000 members.
Script credit from The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2.
This is the text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations.
Script credit from The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986).
A parody of DC's Wonder Woman.