DIZZYLAND

WALT DISNEY'S DISNEYLAND
1954-1958 ABC

DIZZYLAND
MAD #30, December 1956
w: Al Feldstein a: Wallace Wood

The first of several incarnations of a weekly anthology series, initially hosted by Walt Disney himself, showcasing past and present works of Walt Disney Productions, and sometimes behind the scenes work. Some pieces were spun off into their own series. The first series was often used to advertise his theme park.

Two of the parts were Adventureland, Disney's series of nature films, and Tomorrowland, their look at the future.

There was Frontierland, from where Davy Crockett, the first national craze, came from.
Fantasyland, animation past and present from Disney, from where the studio started.

HANSEL AND GRETEL
Trump # 1, January 1957
w: Ed Fisher
a: Wallace Wood

Trump, the magazine, not to be confused with the person, was Hugh Hefner's attempt to give Harvey Kurtzman what he wanted MAD to be, and only lasted two issues before Hefner was told he was expanding his Playboy empire too fast. You've probably heard the story several times about the Kurtzman/Gaines split so I won't go into it here. I've featured a few pages from Trump before and will again. There were some parodies of real items and items that would exist. Here is an example of the latter, the story of Hansel and Gretel as if it were adapted by Disney.

Years later after Disney died, Paul Krassner, one-time MAD writer, was publishing a magazine of satire and politics called The Realist, the complete run of which can be found here. He commissioned comic artist Wally Wood, known for his Disney mimicking prowess (examples herewith), to do a piece called The Disneyland Memorial Orgy, which was bootlegged on T-shirts and black-light posters many times in the 60s. Considered pornographic then, but by today's standards it's something that could be printed in MAD now.