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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: EC
Title: MAD
Page Count: 52
Genre: Humor, Satire-parody
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.30 USD
Cover Date: January 1966
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Country: United States
Famous novels and plays like Moby Dick, Julius Caesar, A Tale of Two Cities and Tarzan of the Apes are turned into Broadway Musicals.; In a parody of the TV series "Ozzie and Harriet," the most boring, out of touch family in history is profiled.; A profile of a toy manufacturer who makes products of questionable quality.; In a parody of the "older actress slasher film" genre, a woman travels to a creepy mansion and meets the odd people who live with her odder cousin.; Sleep and sleeping patterns are satirized.; A woman conducts a tour of New York City and all of the odd characters who live there.; In a parody of the poem "The Song of Hiawatha," a native American gets lost on his journey to a southern college campus and is recruited to play football for a school in northern Minnesota.; Making new consumer products out of old fad items, such as hula hoops and coon skin caps.; Common terms are turned into anthropomorphized animals.; The Black Spy fools the White Spy with a fake submarine.; The White Spy tricks the Black Spy with a rubber solution.; A man has a unique way to combat subway muggers.; A lighthouse with a burned out lamp is replaced.