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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: January 1960
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Country: United States
A calendar with a poem for each month.; Stew and Jess try to avoid kissing their homely client while searching for Koukie's kidnapper, but the producer finds they have kidnapped Koukie because he was taking over the show.; Shows the results when TV executives cave in to pressure from everyone who writes an angry letter about a show.; A look at how the stuff people have expands to fill the available space.; The real "after" photos showing unexpected side effects of various products.; A completely mixed-up look at American history via the needs of a movie plot.; For advertisers scraping the bottom of the barrel, MAD suggest some unusual places for ads in bars, hospitals, airplanes, and even prisons.; Very unhelpful household repair hints, resulting in both damage and injury.; A surgeon and two nurses engage in a slapstick fight in the operating room, so the patient leaves in disgust.; Parody of Polaroid Land Camera ad.; The surgeon takes a hypodermic of some drug himself before operating.; A man sleepwalks through his closet and picks up a hanger in a strange way.; Parody of Volkswagen ad, highlighting all the odd features in mock German dialect.