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Dear Mr. Gilford, Hello, Bradford again. You probably don't remember me (so to refresh: I'm 15, I live in sunny California, I'm a HUGE Mad fan). Anyway, I wrote to you a while back with pictures of my autographed MAD magazines. I think I only had about 3 or 4. Well, I was bummed that you never put them on your site, in the fanmail or odd sections or something!!!! So, after a year or so now that I have 20 signed MAD magazines, I thought I'd give it another shot. I use your site everytime I need to find another MAD to have signed, so it would mean a lot to me if you could get these onto your site. Bradford, This is a really cool achievement and I'll definitely be sharing it with my website viewers. I think I'll give you your own page so you can add to it in the future. A perfect addition to the page I'm going to create would be a photo with you and some or all of your collection of autographed covers. It's up to you if you want to draw that much attention to yourself, but I think site viewers would find it all interesting. Thanks, Doug Here are some pics I thought would be good. One is of me with some of my collecton (the Family Guy and Batman ones especially as they are my two favorites, The Office one would be third favorite). 
One is me with Joanna Cassidy (of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?).
One is me with Ray Harryhausen (producer and special effects model genius, mostly mythical beasts in sci-fi movies, which explains the cyclops cover I had him sign).
One is me with Noel Neill (Lois Lane in the Superman TV shows with Kirk Alyn and later with George Reeves, and also had a cameo in the 2006 Superman Returns, which would explain the cover she signed).
I met each of them at one of those shows and had my dad take my picture with them and the MAD magazine they signed.  Two of the magazines (the Family Guy and the Office ones) I got autographed when I attended an event held by the Museum of Television and Radio in Los Angeles, CA. As for most of the other ones, I met the signers in person. The only ones I didn't meet were Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (because I bought that one), and Al Pacino and Dennis Weaver (because I sent them both the magazine and asked them to sign it). MAD #186: Signed by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy / MAD #201: Signed by Karen Lynn Gorney   Mad XL #24: Signed by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood (of 2001: A Space Odyssey) / Keir Dullea (and little brother Clayton)   MAD #468: Signed by Noel Neill / MAD #208: Signed by Margot Kidder and Phyllis Coates   MAD #119: Signed by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway / MAD #169: Signed by Al Pacino and Dennis Weaver   MAD #311: Signed by Kevin McCarthy   MAD #174: Signed by Mort Drucker / MAD #356: Signed by Craig Robinson, Rainn Wilson, BJ Novak, Oscar Nunez, Creed Bratton, and Phyllis Smith (all from The Office)   MAD #247: Signed by Gogi Grant   MAD #292: Signed by Captain Lou Albano / MAD #284: Signed by Joanna Cassidy and Charles Fleischer   MAD #207: Signed by Martha Smith   MAD #273: Signed by Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman) / MAD #458: Signed by Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mike Henry, Mila Kunis, Lori Alan, and Seth Green (all of Family Guy)   MAD #170: Signed by Linda Blair / MAD #161: Signed by Pamela Sue Martin, Carol Lynley, Stella Stevens, and Ernest Borgnine   Jeff Conaway / MAD #205: Signed by Edd Byrnes, John Travolta and Jeff Conaway   MAD #421: Signed by Verne Troyer, Michael York and Clint Howard / Clint Howard   MAD #157: Signed by Booth Colman and Austin Stoker / MAD #105: Signed by Adam West, Burt Ward, and Julie Newmar (all of Batman)   I just got another one signed. Thanks to the Star Wars Celebration IV. I included pictures of it, as well as me and the Mad #196 with two of the celebrities: Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) and David Prowse (the man behind the Darth Vader suit).  MAD #196: Signed by Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Felix Silla (Ewok, better known as Cousin It on the Addams Family), David Prowse (the man behind the Darth Vader suit), Kenny Baker (R2-D2), and Anthony Daniels (C3PO) / another MAD #186: Signed by MAD artist Sergio Aragonés   Virginia Davis / MAD #239: Signed by Virginia Davis and Walt's nephew Roy E. Disney   Mad #143: Signed by Carol Channing / MAD #478: Signed by Stan Lee   Mad #251: Signed by Jesse and Reggie Jackson / Mad Super Special (Sept. '99): Signed by James Doohan   Mad #182: Signed by Carl Ballantine ("The Amazing Ballantine")   MAD #431: Signed by Lou Ferrigno / MAD #474: Signed by Dick DeBartolo   MAD #225: Signed by Paul Dooley   Mad #150: Signed by Barry Williams / Mad #176: Signed by Karen Black and George Kennedy   Mad #459: Signed by Garry Walberg and his salad   Mad #174: Signed by Charles Bronson / Mad #329: Signed by Dennis Franz, David Caruso, James McDaniel, Sherry Stringfield, Gordon Clapp, Sharon Lawrence, Gail O'Grady, Vinny Gustifino, and Steven Bochco   Mad #305: Signed by General Norman Schwarzkopf / Mad #183: Signed by Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesar's   Lindsay Wagner / Mad #188: Signed by Richard Anderson, Lindsay Wagner and Jennifer Darling   Mad #269: Signed by William Morgan Sheppard and Hank Garrett / Mad #137: Signed by Elliott Gould, Robert Culp, and Celeste Yarnall   Mad #124: Signed by Tony Curtis / Mad Super Special Winter '88: Signed by George Lazenby, Shirley Eaton, Maud Adams, David Hedison, and Richard Kiel (all of various James Bond films)   Tommy Morrison / Mad #262: Signed by Tommy Morrison, Frank Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen   Mad #387: Signed by John F. Babcock (born in 1900, he is the last surviving Canadian WW1 veteran) / MAD Super Special #138: Signed by Ray Harryhausen   Mad #473: Signed by Harry Whittington, the man Dick Cheney shot in the face. He insisted on signing his page inside the MAD.  Mad #488: Signed by 76 year old chimpanzee actor Cheeta. He's no J. Fred Muggs, but he's close.  As you know, I get some of my Mads signed by sending them to people and requesting a signature. Well, for the past few months I have been trying, and trying, and trying  to contact the artist of Mad #38, J.
Fred Muggs. Yes I know he's a chimpanzee, but from what I've last
heard, he's still able to draw and what not. Well, he's getting old,
and all I know is that his current owner's name is Gerald Preis. So, I
was wondering if you could put up an ad, that I am offering a $25 money
order reward to the first person that can supply me with a valid
address for the chimp, and his owner. I'd really like to get him to
sign the Mad, and am seriously willing to give a $25 reward. I know
it's a little Mad (apologize for the pun), but this is my last resort.
I've tried every other thing I could think of, including email Dick
DeBartolo of Mad Magazine (who thinks I'm crazy by the way). So, if you
could put this offer up on your site long enough for me to get an
answer, that'd be great. You can tell them to email me here
(ScoobyDooGuy1991@go.com). Thanks again,Bradford N. Smith p.s. my response from Mr. Debartolo (in case u were wondering about it): Bradford An address from almost 50 years ago? MAD has moved five times since that cover and there's no one here who was even around when that issue was put together. It took me five hours to find out where I put your email and that came in just two days ago! Short version, we truly have no idea how to contact Mr. Muggs. Dick De |