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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: EC
Title: MAD
Page Count: 52
Genre: Humor, Satire-parody, Teen
Era: Bronze
Cover Price: 0.35 USD
Cover Date: March 1970
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Country: United States
Parody of the film "True Grit"; a spoiled brat teams up with a drunken marshal and a dimwitted Texas Ranger to track down the man who murdered her father.; Cynical look at family reunions and relations.; Examples of how perceptions of current issues change as a person ages are told.; Suburban life is examined by a television news reporter.; Television programs provide the literal content of their TV Guide summaries.; Celebrities are placed in ordinary circumstances and their reactions depicted.; Examples, in verse, of how our modern lifestyle is slowly killing us.; Generic movie posters with fill-in-the-blanks and words provided so the reader can make their own movie posters with critic quotes.; Television news programs' desire to predict the outcome of an event is extended to other television genres.; The antics behind the scenes at Congress is depicted.; Examples of the items found in Joe Namath's wallet.; A man avoids a tree during a lightning storm, but doesn't get the results he anticipated.; The White Spy lures the Black Spy into a trap.; The Black Spy lures the White Spy into a trap with fake rocks.; Two mountain men sample the product of another mountain man's still.