Gilbert and Jaime don’t collaborate on their material. That’s why their work was tallied separately.

And we didn’t treat MAD as a collective work. The ranking is for Harvey Kurtzman’s MAD. His collaborators were all clearly his subordinates on the material. There weren’t any other MAD entries in the Top 115, but two that just missed out were Mort Drucker’s work for the magazine, as well as Sergio Aragonés’.

Grant–

The HU rankings do not reflect any value judgment on the part of me or Noah Berlatsky beyond the top-10 lists we submitted, which were of course offset by the other 209 lists we received. The rankings are entirely based on the number of votes received. And if you think the consensus list is predictable, I suggest you look at the entire Top 115. I think you’ll be pretty startled. You’ll be even more startled by the 211 individual contributor lists, which HU started publishing this week.

Johanna-

Quick correction: Kirby did make the top 10. The Fantastic Four was #10.

This list seems pretty safe and predictable but I still don’t take HU seriously. Basically troll comments dressed up as legitimate criticism by contributors who think they’re at the algonquin round table.