*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: One of the approximately metric kazillion imitators of EC’s Mad – which was a comic book before it became a magazine – Riot was launched by Atlas in 1954 as a shameless exercise in bandwagon-jumping, but its lively parodies – Lee always said he enjoyed writing humour, but didn’t get enough opportunity – and top-notch artists set it aside from the herd. Although the first three issues billed themselves as ‘Horror In The Modern Manner’, by the fourth issue the series had morphed into a straight parody mag. Sadly, not even the combined talents of Heath, Maneely, DeCarlo, Severin, Everett, Colan, Hartley, Berg (who would go on to have a lengthy career in the real Mad), and Post were enough to stop Riot falling by the wayside, but we have all 6 issues in stock (depicted: #4 VG £48) with premier-league artists having a ball doing funny stuff!