Link with MadPageant indirectly figures into the history of Harvey Kurtzman's Mad, triggering the switch of Mad from a comic book to a magazine. In the early 1950s, Pageant did an article about the comic book Mad, illustrating it with an original double-page cartoon showing a parade of Mad characters.
The link between MadPageant and Harvey Kurtzman's Mad is significant because it led to the shift from comic book format to magazine format in the early 1950s. A Pageant article with an original double-page cartoon featuring Mad characters was published during this period, contributing to this change.