ADDAMS SMASHING

Charles Addams: Drawn & Quartered (Pocket Books 50058) & Black Maria (Pocket Books 50059)

Charles Addams: Homebodies (Pocket Books 50062) & Addams & Evil (Pocket Books 50063)

I suppose a day will come when I stop buying books, but it hasn't happened yet.  

As a kid, I didn't care much for The Addams Family television show.  The Munsters was more my speed and trumped TAF in every way.  I liked Fred Gwynne better than John Astin, preferred Yvonne De Carlo to Carolyn Jones, and thought Al Lewis was funnier than Jackie Coogan.  

Once I discovered The New Yorker and fell in love with the magazine's writers and cartoonists, I developed a taste for Charles Addams' dark sense of humor.