Mad #22 April 1955

• Cover Artist: Will Elder

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• Special Art Issue - Featuring Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder (C2)
• The Child! (1-3)
• Ad for The Mad Reader paperback (4)
• The Boy! (5-8)
• The Young Artist! (9-13)
• Mad Mumblings (14)
• The Commercial Artist! (15-20)
• The Old Pro! (21)
• Mole! (reprint from issue #2) (Will Elder art) (21-27)
• Senility! (28)
• Ad for MD (New Direction magazine) (29)
• Real ads (30-32,C3,C4)

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• Will Elder is referred to as "Bill Elder" throughout issue
• Although Harvey Kurtzman typically wrote the material in the comic book issues of MAD, Will Elder claimed to have written most of this issue according to a John Benson interview of Elder for E.C. fanzine, Squa Tront #9, 1983
• Color by Marie Severin
• Article lettering by Ben Oda