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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: May 1958
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Country: United States
Satire of the magazine The Saturday Evening Post.; Ideas to incorporate science lessons into various media.; Instructions for three impossible, illegal, and dangerous party games.; Discussion of the theory that the suburbs will keep moving so far out and get so crowded that eventually people will move back into the cities.; Several roving correspondents interview people across the country during their spring cleaning.; Several typewriters with specialized keys to make typing faster for various trades.; Supposed doodles from the desks of famous people, with pop psychoanalysis.; Illustrated version of the famous poem, with a twist ending.; New places to use subliminal advertising.; Scenes from the following tv shows with unusual outcomes: You Asked For It; a Bob Hope special; Steve Allen Show.; Phony record album covers for opera, drawn in the style of paperback novels.; Phony U.S. postage stamps for people and events that would never be commemorated.; Inventions over the ages that were not quite what the inventors had in mind.; An accountant's story of the road to failure as he changes jobs and takes the fall for the boss's embezzling.; Another take on the age-old idea that people and their dogs look alike.; While dressing a mannequin, a window trimmer is assaulted.; Car windshield stickers that look like official signs that would allow free parking.