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Publisher: Warner Books
Years in Operation: 1970 - 2006
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 4 Indicia Publishers: 5 Series: 170 Printings: 187 (289 Issues) Disclose Notes: Warner Books began in 1970 with the acquisition of Paperback Library from Coronet Communications. In 1972 the name of the paperback line was changed to Warner Paperback Library and the name Warner Books was taken as the name for the entire publishing company.

Warner Communications was the corporate owner of Warner Books from 1972 until April 1990, then Time Warner after May 1990 after the merger with Time/Life, then AOL Time Warner in 2002 after the merger with America Online, and then again Time Warner in 2004. In March 2006, Warner Books was sold to Hachette Livre, who renamed it Grand Central Publishing.
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Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
The Abominable Snow Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #98-013. Continues into series #98-015. Continues from series #94-445. Continues into series #94-447. Fifty-second of the Mad paperback reprints, as indicated by the number 52 on the cover.
1979 - 1981 2
The Ages of Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Numbering continued from series #35928. Numbering continued in series #35930. Eighty-fifth of the Mad paperback reprints. Imprint: Warner Books, Inc. (A Time Warner Company).
1990 - 1
The Aimless Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #35927. Continues into series #35929. Eighty-fourth of the Mad paperback reprints.
1990 - 1
Al Jaffee's Mad (Yecch!) Monstrosities {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First Printing: February 1974, Reissued: December 1979.
1974 - 1979 1
Al Jaffee's Mad (Yeech!) Rejects {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #35977. Continues into series #35979. 14th book in Al Jaffee's Mad paperback series.
1990 - 1
Al Jaffee's Mad Book of Magic and Other Dirty Tricks {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Numbering continued from series #86-309. Numbering continued in series #86-311. Numbering continued from series #88-868. Numbering continued in series #88-870. Numbering continued from series #94-405. Numbering continued in series #94-407. Numbering continued from series #35026. Numbering continued in series #35028. Second book in Al Jaffee's Mad paperback series.
1976 - 1988 4
Al Jaffee's Mad Inventions {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #86-115. Continues into series #86-117. Continues from series #88-907. Continues into series #88-909. Continues from series #94-406. Continues into series #94-408. Continues from series #34627. Continues into series #34629. 6th book in Al Jaffee's Mad paperback series.
1978 - 1987 4
The All New Mad Secret File on Spy vs. Spy {Comic Books} 1973 - 1 (2)
Arkham Asylum {Trade Paperbacks} 1990 - 1
Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk {Trade Paperbacks} 1982 - 1
Batman: Gothic {Comic Books} 1992 - 1
Batman: Prey {Trade Paperbacks} 1992 - 1
Batman: Shaman {Comic Books} 1993 - 1
Batman: Tales of the Demon {Comic Books} 1992 - 1
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns {Comic Books} 1986 - 1
Batman: Year One {Comic Books} 1988 - 1
The Bedside Mad {Comic Books} 1973 - 1981 5
The Best of In the Bleachers {Comic Books} 2003 - 1 (0)
Boiling Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Reprinted Boiling Mad (New American Library [Signet Books]) #D3006 (October 1966) which reprinted stories from Mad (EC, 1952 series) magazine from 1961 to 1962.
1973 - 1991 5
Burning Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Twenty-fifth of the Mad paperback reprints, as can be confirmed from the number 25 on the cover. At least seven printings known. This is the Warner Books edition of a book that has previously been published by Signet/New American Library, see Burning Mad (New American Library, 1968 Series).
1975 - 1984 1
Camelot 3000 {Comic Books} 1988 - 1
Catwoman: Her Sister's Keeper {Trade Paperbacks} 1992 - 1
Clods' Letters To Mad {Comic Books} 1981 - ? 1 (0)
The Completely Mad Don Martin {Trade Paperbacks} 1974 - 1 (2)
The Cuckoo Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Forty-third of the Mad paperback reprints, as indicated by the number 43 on the cover.
1976 - 1
Dave Berg's Mad Trash {Comic Books} 1977 - 1
Dita in the Chelsea Girl {Comic Books} 1992 - 1
Don Edwing's Mad Bizarre Bazaar {Comic Books} 1980 - 1 (0)
Don Martin Drops 13 Stories! {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Continued from Don Martin Drops 13 Stories! (Signet Books, 1965 series) #P3524. Continues in Don Martin Drops 13 Stories! (Warner Books, 1975 series) #?? (at least a 13th printing, through 1981). Copyright is 1965. First printing January, 1973; second printing February, 1974; ninth printing February 1979.
1973 - 1974 2
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Thirty-eighth of the Mad paperback reprints, as indicated by the number 38 on the cover.
1975 - 1
Duck Edwing's Mad Ventures of Almost Superheroes {Comic Books} 1990 - 1
The Eggs-Rated Mad {Comic Books} 1981 - 1 (0)
The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes {Comic Books} 1976 - 1978 3
The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes {Comic Books} 1978 - 1 (0)
Enemy Ace: War Idyll {Comic Books} 1992 - 1
Eternally Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Sixty-second of the Mad paperback reprints, as indicated by the number 62 on the cover.
1983 - 1
The Explosive Mad {Comic Books} 1982 - 1 (0)
The Fifth Mad Report on Spy vs. Spy {Comic Books} 1978 - 1
Fighting Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: 75-504 Numbering continues from The Ides of Mad (Warner Books [Warner Paperback Library], 1974 series) #10 (75-503) (June 1974); Numbering continues into Howling Mad (Warner Books [Warner Paperback Library], 1974 series) #23 (75-505) (December 1974). 86-043 Numbering continues from The Indigestible Mad (Warner Books, 1975 series) #24 (86-042) ([circa 1978]); Numbering continues into Invisible Mad (Warner Books, 1974 series) #37 (86-044) ([circa 1976]). 88-872 Numbering continues from Raving Mad (Warner Books, 1973 series) #20 (88-871) (July 1979); Numbering continues into Mad's Spy vs Spy Follow-Up File (Warner Books, 1975 series) #2 (88-873) ([circa 1978]). 94-364 Numbering continues from Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Mad (Warner Books, 1975 series) #38 (94-363) (March 1981); Numbering continues into Good 'N' Mad (Warner Books, 1976 series) #26 (94-365) (December 1981). 30392 Numbering continues from and unknown paperback #30391; Numbering continues into Good 'N' Mad (Warner Books, 1976 series) #26 (30-393) ([circa 1982]). Numbering also continues from "Mad Series" The Ides of Mad #10; Numbering also continues in "Mad Series" The Mad Frontier #12. Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Earlier edition of The Fighting Mad (Signet Books, 1961 series) #S1976, D2385, P3714, and T4757. 11th book in Mad paperback series. Copyright 1957-1958, 1961, 1974 by E.C. Publications, Inc. #75-504 First printing known, cover price $0.95, the cover logo word "Fighting" is green and the word "Mad" is red, November 1974. #86-043 Fourth printing known, cover price $1.25, the cover logo word "Fighting" is blue and the word "Mad" is red, circa 1976. 88-872 Fifth printing known, cover price $1.50, the cover logo word "Fighting" is black and the word "Mad" is blue, circa 1978. 94-364 Sixth printing, ISBN: 0-446-94364-9, cover price $1.75, circa 1979. #30392 Seventh printing, ISBN: 0-446-30392-5, Canadian ISBN: 0-446-32078-1. Distributor Number on cover: 31384 IND, UPC#: 0-70993-00195-30392, cover price $1.95 US, the cover logo word "Fighting" in the cover logo is pink and the word "Mad" is orange, August 1980; Eighth printing, ISBN: 0-446-30392-5, Canadian ISBN: 0-446-32078-1. Distributor Number on cover: 31384 IND, UPC#: 0-70993-00195-30392, cover price $1.95 US, $2.50 CA, the cover logo word "Fighting" in the cover logo is pink and the word "Mad" is orange, circa 1981.
1974 - 1980 2
Fighting Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Paperback Library paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #75-503 (The Ides of Mad). Continues into series #75-505 (Howling Mad). Also continues from "Mad Series" #10 (The Ides of Mad), Continues in #12 (The Mad Frontier). Earlier edition of The Fighting Mad (Signet Books, 1961 series) #S1976, D2385, P3714, and T4757. Later edition of The Fighting Mad (Mad #11, Warner Books, 1976 series) #86-043. 11th book in Mad paperback series. Copyright 1957-1958, 1961, 1974 by E.C. Publications, Inc. The word "Fighting" in cover logo is green.
1974 - 1
The Fish Police {Trade Paperbacks} Disclose
Note: This edition is same as the Comico Trade Paperback, just different size and different cover art, with interior colored.
1987 - 1
The Fourth Mad Declassified Papers on Spy vs. Spy {Comic Books} 1974 - 1
Good 'n' Mad {Comic Books} 1981 - ? 1 (0)
The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told {Trade Paperbacks} 1989 - 1992 2
The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told {Trade Paperbacks} 1989 - 1
Hellblazer: Original Sins {Comic Books} 1993 - 1
History Gone Mad {Comic Books} 1977 - 1
Hooked on Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Forty-second of the Mad paperback reprints, as indicated by the number 42 on the cover.
1976 - 1
Hopping Mad {Comic Books} 1976 - 1982 4 (0)
Howling Mad {Comic Books} 1974 - 1986 5 (0)
In Mad We Trust by Sergio Aragonés {Comic Books} 1974 - 1 (0)
Incurably Mad! {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Sixth in the series of numbered Sergio Aragonés Mad paperbacks. Seven known printings.
1977 - 1985 4
The Indigestible Mad {Comic Books} 1975 - 1981 4 (0)
The Invisible Mad {Comic Books} 1974 - 1980 1
It's a World, World, World, World Mad {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: 74-098 Numbering continues from an unknown book #74-097. Numbering continues in Mad (Yecch!) Monstrosities (Warner Books [Warner Paperback Library], 1974 series) #74-099 (February 1974) [First printing.] 75-698 Numbering continues from Mad's Dave Berg Looks at Living (Warner Books [Warner Paperback Library], 1974 series) #75-697 (circa 1974) [printing?] Numbering continues in The Bedside Mad (Warner Books [Warner Paperback Library], 1973 series) #6 (75-699) (July 1974) [Fourth printing.] 86-056 Numbering continues from Sergio Aragonés Mad as the Devil! (Warner Books [Warner Paperback Library], 1975 series) #5 (86-055) (circa 1978) [Fourth printing.] Numbering continues in The Dirty Old Mad (Warner Books [Warner Paperback Library], 1975 series) #30 (86-057) (circa 1976) [Thirteenth printing. Fourteenth through sixteenth printings with same book number known.] 88-733 Numbering continues from The Mad Book of Revenge (or How to Torment Your Tormentors) (Warner Books, 1976 series) #1 (88-732) (circa 1979) [printing?] Numbering continues in The Recycled Mad (Warner Books [Warner Paperback Library], 1975 series) #32 (88-734) (circa 1979) [printing?] 94-370 Numbering continues from The Invisible MAD (Warner Books [Warner Paperback Library], 1974 series) #37 (94-369) (circa 1980) [Eighth printing. Ninth printing with same book number released July 1980.] Numbering continues in Like, MAD (Warner Books [Warner Paperback Library], 1973 series) #9 (94-371) (circa 1981) [printing?]
1973 - 1981 5 (0)
Like, Mad {Comic Books} 1973 - ? 1 (0)
Looney Tunes {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Giveaway w/ the US Postal Service's Stampers Club.
1996 - 1
Mad Around the World {Comic Books} 1979 - 1 (0)
A Mad Guide to Fraud and Deception {Comic Books} 1981 - 1 (0)
The Mad Jumble Book {Comic Books} 1975 - 1 (0)
The Mad Self-Improvement Yearbook {Comic Books} 1985 - 1 (0)
Mad About Mad! {Comic Books} 1977 - ? 1 (0)
Mad About Sports {Trade Paperbacks} Disclose
Note: 1st printing: November 1972. 2nd printing: September 1973. 3rd printing: January 1974. 4th printing: August 1974. 5th printing: August 1975.
1972 - 1
Mad About the Buoy {Comic Books} 1980 - 1991 5 (0)
Mad About Town {Comic Books} 1983 - 1 (0)
The Mad Adventures of Captain Klutz {Comic Books} 1974 - ? 1
Mad As Usual! {Comic Books} 1990 - 1
Mad At You! {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fortieth of the Mad paperback reprints, as indicated by the number 40 on the cover.
1975 - 1
Mad Blasts {Comic Books} 1988 - 1990 1 (0)
The Mad Book of Sex, Violence and Home Cooking {Comic Books} 1983 - 1 (0)
A Mad Carnival {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fifty-ninth of the Mad paperback reprints, as indicated by the number 59 on the cover.
1982 - 1
Mad Clobbers the Classics {Comic Books} 1981 - 1 (0)
Mad Clowns Around {Comic Books} 1978 - 1
Mad Disasters {Comic Books} 1992 - ? 1 (0)
Mad Fold This Book! A Ridiculous Collection of Fold-Ins {Comic Books} 1997 - 1
Mad For Kicks {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fifty-fourth of the Mad paperback reprints.
1980 - 1
The Mad Frontier {Comic Books} 1975 - 1980 4 (0)
Mad Goes Wild {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #94-282 ((Al Jaffee #8) Clod's Letters to Mad). Continues into series #94-284 (Sergio Aragonés's Mad Marginals). Unnumbered, but probably the 9th book in the Frank Jacobs series of Mad paperbacks. Copyright 1974, 1981 by Frank Jacobs, Robert J. Clarke, & E.C. Publications, Inc. UPC #: 0-70993-00175-94283. Distributor Code # on cover: 31424 IND.
1981 - 1
The Mad Guide to Careers {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Stan Hart #2.
1978 - 1
A Mad Guide to Leisure Time {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #76-714. Continues into series #76-716. Continues from series #94-430 (The Mad Guide to Careers). Continues into series #94-432. Continues from series #30-465 (Mad Guide to Fraud & Deception (and other accepted business practices), A). Continues into series #30-467. Continues from series #34973. Continues into series #34975. Also continued from Dick De Bartolo series #4 (Mad Look At TV ?). Continued into Dick De Bartolo series #6 (The Mad Guide To Self-Improvement ?). Fifth book in Dick De Bartolo series of paperbacks. Copyright 1976 by Dick De Bartolo, George Woodbridge, & E.C. Publications, Inc. #94-431: Printings unknown.
1976 - 1988 4
Mad in Orbit {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #76-711. Continues into series #76-713. Continues from series #88-761. Continues into series #88-763. Continues from series #94-590 (Mad At You). Continues into series #94-592 (A Mad Scramble). Also continues from "Mad Series" #12 (The Mad Frontier), Continues in #14 (The Voodoo Mad). Earlier edition of Mad in Orbit (Signet Books, 1962 series) #S2157, D2617, P3494, T5068. 13th book in Mad paperback series. Copyright 1958-1959, 1962, 1975 by E.C. Publications, Inc. #76-712 - 1st Printing-November 1975, 2nd-3rd printings-circa 1976. #94-591 - Distribution code 31348 IND on cover-UPC #: 0-70993-00175-31348., 6th Printing-circa 1982, Cover price $1.75.
1975 - 1981 3
A Mad Look at Old Movies {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First printing October 1973; Seventh printing April 1980.
1973 - 1980 2
A Mad Look at The 50's {Comic Books} 1985 - ? 1 (0)
A Mad Look at the Future {Comic Books} 1978 - 1 (0)
A Mad Look at TV {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #86-135 (Fourth Mad Declassified Papers On... Spy vs Spy). Continues into series #86-137. Continues from series #94-435. Continues into series #94-437 (Mad Stew). Earlier edition of Mad Look at TV, A (Warner Books, 1974 series) #75-034. Also a part of the Dick De Bartolo Mad series, continued from #3? in the series (Madvertising or Up Madison Avenue?). Continued as #5? in the series (A Mad Guide To Leisure Time). Though not numbered on the book itself, probably the 4th book in the Dick De Bartolo Mad series of paperbacks. Copyright 1974 by Dick DeBartolo, Angelo Torres, E.C. Publications, Inc. #86-136 - 4th Printings-July 1976, 5th Printings-circa 1978, Cover price $1.25. #94-436 - 8th Printing-July 1980, Distributor Code # on cover: 31401 IND. UPC #: 0-70993-00175-31401, Cover price $1.75.
1976 - 1980 2
The Mad Make Out Book {Comic Books} 1979 - 1 (0)
Mad Murders The Movies {Comic Books} 1990 - ? 1 (0)
Mad Overboard {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Forty-seventh of the Mad paperback reprints, as indicated by the number 47 on the cover.
1978 - 1
The Mad Pet Book {Comic Books} 1983 - 1
A Mad Scramble {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Forty-fifth of the Mad paperback reprints, as indicated by the number 45 on the cover.
1977 - 1
A Mad Scramble {Trade Paperbacks} Disclose
Note: MAD #45
1977 - 1
Mad Stew {Comic Books} 1978 - 2
Mad Sucks {Comic Books} 1979 - 1981 2 (0)
A Mad Treasure Chest {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Forty-ninth of the Mad paperback reprints, as indicated by the number 49 on the cover.
1978 - 1
The Mad Weirdo Watcher's Guide {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Warner Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #90-713. Continues into series #90-715. Part of the Tom Koch series of Mad books. Continues from The Mad Worry Book (Warner Books, 1980 series) #88-825. Continues as The Mad Self-Improvement Yearbook (Warner Books, 1985 series) #32732. Copyright 1982 by Jack Rickard and E.C. Publications, Inc. New material based on Rickard and Koch work in Mad Magazine. Third Tom Koch series of books. UPC #: 0-70993-00195-90714. Distributor number on cover #: 31430 IND.
1982 - 1
Mad's Al Jaffee Spews Out Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions {Comic Books} 1975 - 1 (0)
Mad's Al Jaffee Sweats Out Another Book {Comic Books} 1988 - ? 1 (0)
Mad's Bizarre Biz {Comic Books} 1987 - ? 1 (0)
Mad's Cradle to Grave Primer {Comic Books} 1973 - ? 1 (0)
Mad's Dave Berg Looks Around {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First printing November 1975. Second printing September 1976. Third printing currently unknown Fourth printing currently unknown Fifth printing circa 1980. Sixth printing circa 1981. reissued as 7th printing, December 1982; Probably has up to ten printings.
1975 - ? 5

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