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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: EC
Title: MAD
Page Count: 52
Genre: Humor, Satire-parody
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.30 USD
Cover Date: December 1963
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Country: United States
Examples of how to differentiate an Art House film from a commercial release.; Satirical look at the functions of labor unions.; Various examples of how current television shows can be "dumbed down" to match the incoming crop of silly situation comedies. Shows parodies are "Ben Casey", "The Garry Moore Show", "The Huntley/Brinkley Report", "CBS Sports Spectacular", "The Defenders", "DuPont Show of the Week", and "Classical Civilization".; Mad interviews the less-than-scrupulous owner of a Chinese-themed restaurant.; Series of cartoons satirizing the game of football.; Series of cartoons satirizing car ownership.; How military life adapts to being based on Mars, as told through a series of interoffice memos and letters home.; Greeting cards written by various government agencies.; In a parody of the film "Hud," a sullen, angry, selfish lout makes everybody's life miserable on a Texas ranch.; A man throws a cannon ball further than he thinks.; The White Spy cons the Black Spy into thinking he's committing suicide.; A man is marooned on a small sandbar.; The Black Spy tricks the White Spy with a trick cannon.; The Gray Spy fools the other spies with a phony mouse.; Firemen attempt to rescue pieces of sculpture from a burning museum.