Me, Stan Lee, and Alfred E. Neuman: A Love Story

In 1992, I shot this piece commemorating the recent passing of William M. Gaines, the famed publisher of Mad magazine, among other accomplishments. (Do read David Hajdu's wonderful The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America for more about Mr. Gaines.)

It being both an election year and Washington, D.C., many of the people interviewed invoked the name of then-presidential candidate Ross Perot, whose supposed resemblance to Alfred E. Neuman was the current jest du jour.

Somewhere a cleaner copy of this exists on Hi-8 tape, but until that appears this crummy VHS dub must suffice. Enjoy.

stan lee, marvel comics, comicon, spider-man, spiderman, vampirella, mad magazine, william m gaines, ross perot, Susie Owens, flaxen, David Hajdu

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