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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: EC
Title: MAD
Page Count: 52
Genre: Humor, Satire-parody
Era: Bronze
Cover Price: 0.50 USD
Cover Date: April 1976
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Country: United States
Retrospective of how college life has changed over thirty years.; Recent popular motion pictures are turned into Broadway musicals, including The Godfather, Jaws and the then recent spate of disaster films.; People trying and sometimes failing to make money on the side.; In a parody of the TV series "Good Times," a Black family struggles to stay together in the face of poverty, under-employment and stereotypical jokes.; A collection of dubious money-saving ideas.; Mad profiles a city traffic commissioner and his inept, inefficient staff.; Shoulder patches that represent common occupations.; Examples of unsympathetic people in undesirable situations.; A man marooned on a desert atoll sends a message in a bottle.; A bank robber is only interested in the bank's account premiums.; A man on a street corner has a unique method of soliciting money.; The Black Spy thinks he's crippled The White Spy's aircraft carrier.; A doctor tests a woman's reflexes in the wrong place.