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This is a response to this post:

https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost.php?postid=60e1c3d632a95

Which contains a link to an excellent graphic:

https://files.catbox.moe/frov5k.png

Harvey Kurtzman was a jew from New York who worked in the early days of EC publishing as an artist and editor. He and others created the Mad comic book until it had a change of format and Kurtzman was fired as editor. He ventured on his own, creating several magazines. I want to focus on one in particular, HELP! magazine, published from 1960 to 1964.

Most issues can be found at archive.org here:

https://archive.org/details/Help1960s

The magazine was always struggling, but it eventually brought about its own demise when it published a three-page bit of "parody" that I believe caused readers to cancel their subscriptions in droves. The article was published in issue #20, and can be read online here:

https://archive.org/details/Help1960s/HelpV208warrenfeb1964/page/n39/mode/2up

Most of you here may find it innocuous, but this was considered disrespectful at best and sacrilegious at worst in 1964. One sees a noticeable decline in quality in the next six issues, and even though it moved from being published quarterly to bi-monthly, it never regained its former popularity or status, as reflected by the letters published in the magazine. Issue #20 was a turning point, and the editors printed three times as many letters about just that one article than anything else they ever published. It galvanized the readership, with most readers deciding they weren't going to have their beliefs ridiculed by a bunch of condescending jews from New York. (It was never said like that, but one can infer it from the readers' response.)

If anyone is familiar with Terry Gilliam's work prior to his membership with Monty Python, working on this magazine was his first job after he graduated from university. You can see his name in the masthead of this issue.