The name of the first editor was Day Kolstad. He left the Norsk MAD in early 1986, and started the competing humor magazine ‘Phyton’ a few years later. Kolstad engaged several artists of the Norwegian MAD (including Arild Midthun and Tommy Sydsæter) and transferred them to the competitor magazine. The rising ‘war’ between the Norwegian MAD and Python peaked in 1988, when Python printed a fake MAD-cover on the back, hoping to steal readers from MAD. This resulted in a trial and Gevion (Python’s publisher) was ordered to pay 80 000 Norwegian Kroner in damages. In the late 1980s, Python finally won the battle. The sales of the Norwegian MAD began to decrease rapidly, while Python numbers were rising. In 1994, the Norwegian MAD was closed.
Another publisher named ‘Bladkompaniet’ acquired Norwegian MAD in 1995 He attempted to relaunch the magazine – but this lasted only six numbers in 1996. Egmont was the name of the next publisher who tried the next Norwegian version of MAD in 2001. It lasted only 6 issues. The last sign of MAD in Norway, a special album, showed up in the store shelves in 2008.
