Mad #17 November 1954

• Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman

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• Mad King Playing Card / Subscription Ad
• Bringing Back Father! (Will Elder and Bernie Krigstein art)
• What's My Shine! (Jack Davis art)
  (a better way to broadcast the McCarthy hearings)
• Essay from a small country
• Ad for Piracy (Wally Wood art)
• Mad Mumblings
• Meet Miss Potgold (Will Elder and Basil Wolverton art)
• Similar "Mad" -type comic book titles (Wally Wood art)
• Julius Caesar! (Wally Wood art)

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• Entire issue written by Harvey Kurtzman
• Color by Marie Severin