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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: EC
Title: MAD
Page Count: 52
Genre: Humor, Satire-parody
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.35 USD
Cover Date: October 1968
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Country: United States
In a parody of the television series "Gentle Ben," an Everglades park ranger and his annoying family live and interact with a grizzly bear who is more civilized than they are.; Devices designed to handle cigarettes that are longer than a foot.; The producer of low-brow, embarrassment-oriented game shows is interviewed.; Satire of having, wanting and caring for hair.; The faces of real life celebrities are pasted onto the bodies of various comic strip characters for ironic effect.; Scenes from the film "The Music Man" are presented, complete with musical numbers, with hippies substituted for the main characters.; Various notes and letters from everyday life, written in the style of a Publisher's Clearing House contest solicitation.; Parody of the film "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner"; a flighty woman takes her black fiance to meet her prejudiced father.; Parody of the film "In Cold Blood"; two indifferent detectives stumble onto the murderers of a simple, boring American family.; Parody of the film "The Graduate"; a young nebbish must choose between his fiance and her oversexed mother.; The White Spy sets up a booby-trapped house for the Black Spy.; The White Spy thinks he's trapped the Black Spy in his own dungeon.