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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: December 1958
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Country: United States
Possible final strips for when newspapers have to eliminate comics to use the space for more educational features.; Unlikely magazine titles for when magazines merge.; Parodies of ads depicted in the styles of directors: Alfred Hitchcock; Elia Kazan; Cecil B. DeMille; Sam Katzman.; History of merchandising by pushcarts and projection to a future where stores are so large that vendors sell by pushcarts within the stores.; Broadway musicals based on unlikely source material.; Wally interviews a man who tests the truth of song lyrics and watches him demonstrate "It's a treat to beat your feet in the Mississippi Mud."; A guidebook to (phony) dangerous plants and animals of the woods.; Acting awards for baseball players hamming it up for fans and the camera during games.; Two building maintenance men try to find why a toaster won't work.; Taking the fad of reclining chairs to extremes.; A list of revenges against common Halloween pranks.; Reading lamps designed in styles to match popular magazine content.; Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.; The ultimate in the trend towards combined home woodworking shop tools, parodying the Shopsmith.; Parody of American Express Travelers Cheques ads.; Enemy frogmen successfully blow up each other's ships and are then stranded mid-ocean.; A man has trained his dog to fetch him everything...including his wife.; Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.; Two couples carve a heart; one on a tree and one on a forehead.; Parody of ad for Crest Toothpaste, with painting signed as "Norman Rocknroll."