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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: EC
Title: MAD
Page Count: 52
Genre: Humor, Satire-parody
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.25 USD
Cover Date: August 1957
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Country: United States
Parody of TV Guide Magazine, with articles, ads and phony tv listings.; Typical wedding pictures contrasted with pictures of the same couple six months later.; A review of the "advantages" of modern furniture.; Illustrated comedy routine that reverses cliches about Chinese restaurants and people.; Mr. Science performs a simple experiment with a light bulb and nearly burns down the studio.; Ideas for foolish future drive-in facilities based on the success of drive-in banks, food, and movies.; Offerings from a company that makes products and props used as "Brand X" to compare to advertised products on tv.; Proposed coats of arms for current celebrities.; Phony ad storyboard for KLM Airlines.; Story of Edgar's rise to the presidency of a corporation.; An unusual ending to a spitball contest.; Ideas for backdrops so that when you answer the picture-phone of the future, you can still lie to people about where you are.; Man is ready to jump from a high building ledge but changes mind when his baby is brought to the window...then slips and falls anyway on baby's rattle.; A pardon arrives at the prison just a little too late to save a man on death row.; Three fake postcards of world scenery.