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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: September 1965
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Country: United States
Parody of automobile-centric niche magazines, this one showing the reader how to decrease the value of their auto and which valueless makes to consider buying.; In a parody of the film "Cheyenne Autumn," director John Ford screens his film "Cheyenne Awful", about a tribe of Native Americans and U.S. Cavalry soldiers generally acting silly.; In a parody of the TV series "The Rogues," three brothers and a family friend team up to con dishonest power brokers and seduce women half their age.; Examples of the advantages rich kids have over other kids.; Satirical look at the duties and habits of sanitation workers.; Mad profiles a bigoted police officer as he patrols his shift.; Newscaster Walter Cronkite hosts a television variety show with political and sports figures as performing guests.; Examples of the hypocrisy behind various homilies and good wishes.; Satirical look at employees, their job performances and their relationships with their employers.; A woman tries to rescue her husband from a precarious situation.; The White Spy suckers the Black Spy with a false trap.; Vultures watch a dying man in the desert.; The Black Spy booby-traps his safe in anticipation of the White Spy.; Parody of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not comic panel; profiles of various people who had odd things happen to them.; The Gray Spy lures the other spies into a trap in a castle.; A police officer's warning shot goes awry.