# Episode 21: My Long Weekend Annoying MAD Magazine Publisher Bill Gaines

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Podcast: [Why Not Say What Happened?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/why-not-say-what-happened-7069512)
Published: 2025-03-05T01:50:00+00:00
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## Resource

My latest look back at what I was doing in comics during the '70s has me remembering the weekend I couldn't stop myself from teasing Bill Gaines about the National Lampoon 's satirical slam of MAD magazine, why famed con-runner Phil Seuling castigated us fans one afternoon for mistreating our mothers, the words Gerry Conway wrote for Daredevil's girlfriend Karen Page in the basement of a Times Square Nathan's, how my 1980 DC Comics vampire story ended up as an episode of Tales from the Darkside , the continuing mystery of the martial arts series I'd forgotten I'd tried to write for Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (and what Tony Stark had to do with it), and much more.

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