Biz WDØHCO wrote:
The "April fools" issue
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I one I love was the "MAD Magazine" issue. The cover had ol Alfred E. Newman
soldering a radio chassis with a big 300 watt soldering gun saying "What, me
solder?" Inside the issue was "Ham versus Ham" comic strip which was a
parody of "Spy Versus Spy". That whole issue had me in stitches for days.

Ha, yes. Alfred E. Newman was shown soldering the spliced power wires
to his own soldering iron. Callsign badge: WN1ECCH.

My favorite 73 cover was the one showing a chessboard. The pieces
were various size vacuum tubes. 813 = king, 811A = queen,
829B = bishop, 6146 with ceramic plate connector attached = knight,
lighthouse tube = castle, 6C4 = pawns.

73,
Ed