My name is Scott Alden. I'm currently 70 years old and I've been a MAD reader since the age of 10.

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I've been a collector of various things since I was a little kid.  I even had a cigarette butt collection.  (In the late 50s and early 60s, lots of people smoked and cigarette butts were plentiful along the roadway.)  For me, though, it was the "collecting" I enjoyed rather than what was being collected--the idea of the "find" of an item I didn't already have.  I call this "collector mentality."  Others call it obsessive.

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I'm not sure if I was drawn to MAD simply because I was a red-haired, freckle-faced boy (although I had all my teeth and far smaller ears) or whether it was because I loved the way the UGOIs poked a stick in everyone's eyes.  Regardless, I credit MAD for my dry, sarcastic humor.

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Sometime in my mid- to late-thirties, I looked at the small, tattered stack of MADs I had owned since boyhood and thought it might be fun to put together a reading file of U.S. MADs. This was pre-internet, so newspaper ads and combing comic stores was my sole method of adding to my collection.

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Once my collection was approaching completion, I thought, "What now?"  That's when my collector mentality kicked into high gear.

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I now have a substantial collection of collectible condition U.S. and foreign magazines, paperback books from around the world, and collectibles.

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I have created this site to pay homage to a great comic medium, to share stories with other MAD nuts...ahem, collectors, and to facilitate the purchase and sale of items which help complete my collection and those of others.

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