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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: December 1960
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Country: United States
Satirical look at child-rearing.; Parody of the television show "Lassie".; Altering famous advertising campaigns so they advertise the services of physicians.; Examples of historical misquotes.; A person channel-surfs and keeps hitting commercials.; New services designed to let Americans do even less.; Comparison of stereotypical war movie characters from films made during World War II and after the war.; Familiar modern stereotypes presented as carnival side-show attractions.; Four safe-crackers are apprehended when one of them makes the wrong noise at the wrong time.; Comparison of how the New York Times and the New York Daily News would cover particular stories.; If famous people had to do a "how I spent my summer vacation" essay.; Parody of then-current Polident television ad.; Blank page with a note clipped to it from Al Feldstein's mother, claiming he was too sick to fill the page.; A child shows another child his new set of darts.