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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: November 1958
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Country: United States
Parody of magazine college football season previews, along with fake definitions of football terms.; Parodies of children's books but on adult subjects, written and illustrated in the style of Golden Books.; Everyday occupations with credits for all the people who helped in the background, in the style of movie credits. Also, suggested "professional" names for persons in various occupations.; The supposed final frame cut from famous movie scenes.; Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.; Excerpts from the book.; Wally interviews the official team heckler for the San Francisco Giants.; How doing the things that tv commercials suggest will not get the results you expect.; A boy saves a bird from a hunter...then eats the bird.; Solutions to parking and congestion problems caused by big cars.; Spelling errors that tell the story better than the correct spelling would.; Popular songs arranged into phony albums of music for specific moods.; Strange home styles to fit various personality types.; Parody of Ripley's Believe It Or Not.; Two bums who have been ingesting Sterno find an unusual way to light a cigarette.; A bank robbery goes wrong when no one cares about the hostage.; Parody of Miss Clairol hair coloring ad, featuring a kit to age your date so his appearance matches yours.