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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: January 1959
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Country: United States
Satirical look at the sport of basketball.; Showing the larger boring scenes that exciting movie previews are supposedly taken from.; Fictitious company magazine for North American Veeblefetzer Co.; Ads we might see if countries advertised like other products, instead of communicating their ideologies and accomplishments as they currently do.; Telethon to pump up the number of highway fatalities to meet the numbers announced before the holiday.; 3 cartoons of the dangers of summer.; Famous ancestors of Alfred, with very brief biographical notes and dates of birth and death.; Thoughts on what could happen if the concept of signals were extended to everyday life events.; Phony Christmas cards from celebrities to other celebrities.; Various methods of inducing sleep.; Possible kids' editions of popular magazines, including: Junior Confessions, Tiny Homes and Gardens; Sports Infantile; Truant; Tyke; Pedal Trend; The Saturday Evening Tot.; Showing how the electrical company supposedly controls refrigerator lights and other appliance lights from a central headquarters.; Two cartoons: a toddler unwraps his older brother instead of the present, and a woman's hair turns into a New Year's noisemaker.; Phony ad for Culvert Reserve Whiskey.; When the villagers finally corner the monster he responds by signing autographs.; Possible long book titles based on a the recent success of book by Robert Paul Smith.