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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 1962
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Country: United States
Various fathers try to explain their jobs to their children.; A viewer surfs between the three options on late night television: "Hamlet", a monster movie or The Tonight Show with Jack Paar.; If celebrities had never become celebrities.; Series of Christmas-based humorous situations.; Famous poems altered to appeal to the construction industry.; Interpretations of slang terms endemic to various professions.; Examples of people stretching the truth.; Parody of the film "The Guns of Navarone".; A man races to make an appointment, but every means of transportation he uses breaks in half.; A peek in Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's wallet.; Various comic strip characters meet for a Christmas party.; A Soviet-style military officer plays cruel tricks on people.; Two Soviet scientists combine the "secret ingredients" in various household products into an efficient rocket fuel.; An overweight woman attempts to ride a narrow escalator.