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HOOHAH! STAR WARS INSIDER TAKES A LOOK AT THE LIGHTER SIDE OF STAR WARS, AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF MAD MAGAZINE.

ARIE KAPLAN

MAD magazine might not be the first thing that springs to mind when it comes to Star Wars, but whenever a new Star Wars movie or TV show has debuted, MAD has always been there to parody it. That’s been the case ever since the beloved humor publication spoofed A New Hope in MAD #196 (January 1978). In fact, by 2007 there were enough MAD Star Wars spoofs to fill a book—namely the Del Rey collection MAD About Star Wars, authored by former Lucasfilm employee (and then-MAD editor) Jonathan Bresman. During the past 40 years, MAD has skewered the saga so frequently that—as of this writing—the last four issues of the magazine (up to and including MAD #540, August 2016) have all included at least one article or comic strip…

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