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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: March 1959
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Country: United States
Parody of LOOK Magazine.; The problems of body-building.; Bad advice for drivers on reading signs, hand signals, how to park, etc.; How ads might look if George Washington were creating them and using his "cannot tell a lie" philosophy.; What we might see if tv commercials were done in the style of the shows they appeared in.; A comparison of sharp photos with blurred versions of the same photos and the poetic captions written for them.; Showing the past and current trends in automobile design and predictions of the future.; Awards in various categories of pop culture, rated by a panel of 12 real college humor magazine editors.; Hotchkins has some fun with fish before cutting off the heads, in his job at the butcher shop.; How editorial cartoons would look if popular comic strips were used for the messages.; A careful look at 12 of Mama Mia's canned products reveals they are all the same.; Ideas for new tattoo designs.; Valentines that might be sent by businesses, combining advertising.; Parody of ad for Imperial Whiskey.; The professor is so obnoxious that a man-eating plant burps after eating him.; A boy playing the "Ring The Bell" game at an amusement park demonstrates an unusual tactic.; Parody of ad for Sweethart Soap.