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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: September 1963
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Country: United States
Parody of magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics.; Contemporary comedians do their stand-up act in historical situations.; Various plans for doing things around the house in the space of a program commercial break.; Various four panel strips satirizing life at summer camp.; Fictional characters are placed in authentic situations and react in authentic fashion.; Horror movies centered on contemporary nuisances.; Drugs designed to counteract embarrassing situations endemic to post-pubescent life.; NASA terminology applied to situations on the beach.; Series of cartoons satirizing motorcycle police.; A performance of shadow puppets doesn't go as rehearsed.; The Black Spy uses a helicopter to steal the White Spy's secret plans.; A surgeon examines a patient's brain.; A man goes diving in the on-board pool of a luxury liner.; The Gray Spy traps the other spies burglarizing her safe.; A woman gives her husband a hair cut.; Cartoons inserted into margins of random pages.