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Here's a link to every last issue of MAD, all 550 issues, from 1952 till its cancellation in April 2018 :
https://viewcomiconline.com/mad-issue-157/or at :
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/MAD/Issue-1?id=72763#1The first 23 issues MAD was a comic book, then with issue 24 it switched to a magazine format, to excape censorship by the comics code.
For me, mad didn't reach its full form until about 1962, with its Mort Drucker-illustrated movie and TV parodies, Antonio Prohias' "Spy vs Spy" and earlier features, Sergio Aragones, Al Jaffee, Don Martin, and Dave Berg's "The Lighter Side of..." all bringing their work, and MAD as a whole, to its fully evolved form.
But even in its early issues there's plenty of beautiful work, and part of the fun is watching the artists develop over the years to their final style and format. In particular artists like Joe Orlando and Wally Wood did some very detailed work in the early magazine issues, even though they didn't stay with MAD.
Wood after leaving MAD did the first year or so of early issues of
DAREDEVIL with Stan Lee, as well as his own fanzine
WITZEND, several semi-pornographic comic strips such as
"Cannon" (later collected by Fantagraphics' Eros imprint), and many other projects for Marvel, DC, and others until his death in 1981.
Joe Orlando left to become an editor for DC, from 1968-on developing DC's mystery line, starting with
HOUSE OF MYSTERY (issues 174-321) and HOUSE OF SECRETS, JONAH HEX, Wein/Wrightson's SWAMP THING, Fleisher/Aparo's Spectre run in ADVENTURE COMICS, and in the late 1970's Orlando became one of DC's managing editors. In between he did occasional covers and other art for the likes of TIME and NEWSWEEK.
Looking at 2 decades of their work after leaving, you get an idea how their later work would have looked if they'd stayed with MAD.
