Mad #30 December 1956

• Cover Artist: Norman Mingo
• Cover Border Artists: Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
• Mad Logo: Harvey Kurtzman

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• B.F. Goodnrich Autoless Tires (ad parody) (Reed Crandall art)
• Contents Page
• Elvis Pelvis (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
• Arnie Rosen and Coleman Jacoby make keen observations
  **various obscure places around the magazine
• Real Ads for
  • Genuine Height-Increasing Elevator Shoes
  • "What, Me Worry" Kid portrait
• Letters
• Gunsmoked (TV satire)
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
• Alfred E. Neuman Answers Your Questions (Don Martin art)
• The Manly Art of Self-Defense
  (Edmund E. Price's 1867 book redefined)
• Scenes We'd Like to See -
  The Gladiator and the Empress (Phil Interlandi)
• Mad Builds a More Civilized Mouse Trap
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
• Motorist Beware! (written by Herb Goldstein / Bob Clarke art)
• Old Comic-Strip Characters' Home (Wally Wood art)
• Bowling (written by Nick Meglin / Jack Davis art)
• Collegiate Whimsey (from various college publications)
• Morbid Dick (movie satire) (Wally Wood art)
• Alfred E. Neuman Answers Your Questions (Don Martin art)
• A Medal for Horatius
  (written by Colonel W.C. Hall / Wally Wood art)
• Pulp Magazines (written by James Blish / Will Elder art)
• A Saw Screams at Midnight (G. A. Mills)
• Merit Badges (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
• Walt Dizzy Presents Dizzyland (TV satire) (Wally Wood art)
• Alfred E. Neuman Answers Your Questions (Don Martin art)
• Mad Subscription Ad - Vital Items You Can Buy For a Quarter!
  (Jack Davis art)
• Back Cover -- Reverse View of Front Cover
  (Norman Mingo and Jack Davis art)