""What, Me Worry?' Was the Slogan of a Holy Fool, Wiser Than the Know-It-Alls, and Forever Young"

"By 1960 MAD had conquered the teenage market. According to some estimates, it was read by most American college students and almost half the country's high school students (at least the male ones). Believe it or not, MAD would become even more popular in the next dozen years."

Tablet runs an excerpt from David Mikics's The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain!