Mad #31 February 1957

• Cover Artist: Norman Mingo
• Mad Logo: Harvey Kurtzman

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• Mad Subscription Ad -
  Make Your Own Window Test!
  (Jack Davis and Will Elder art) (C2)
• Contents Page (summary written by Al Feldstein) (1)
• "Mad, a short-lived satirical pulp."
  -- Time Magazine (Sept. 24, 1956)
• Purloined Proverbs Ascribed to Popular People
  **various obscure places around the magazine
• The New Marylin Marone (Wally Wood art) (2-3)
• Letters - Real Ads for (4-5)
  • Leslie Creations' Record Cabinet
  • Critics Panel - Registered Critic Kits
  • "What, Me Worry" Kid portrait
• Field & Scream (magazine satire)
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art) (6-10)
• Scenes We'd Like to See -
  One Against Four (Phil Interlandi) (11)
• item (written by G. Stang) (12-14)
• Why I Write Poetry and Ode to Stanley's Pussycat
  by Percy Dovetonsils
  (written by Ernie Kovacs / Jack Davis art) (15-17)
• Greeting Cards (Bob Clarke art) (18-19)
• What They're Saying Around the Solar System
  (Basil Wolverton art) (20-21)
• What's all this Jazz about Jazz? - Al "Jazzbo" Collins
  (Wally Wood art) (22-27)
• Future TV Ads (Don Martin) (28-29)
• Mad's Ink Blot Test (Kelly Freas and Will Elder art) (30-31)
• A Cultural Look at Comic Opera -
  featuring Mozart's Don Giovanni (32-35)
  (written by Nick Meglin / Wally Wood and Jack Davis art)
• Future TV Ads (Don Martin) (36-37)
• Why the 35mm Camera Replaced the Box Camera
  (written by Arnie Rosen / Bob Clarke art) (38-40)
• Orson Bean Opens His Family Album (Jack Davis art)
  (with special material by Alen Robin) (41-47)
• Greeting Cards (Bob Clarke art) (48)
• Real Ad - The Dollar Mystery Guild (C3)
• Back Cover -- Mad Travel Stickers (Bob Clarke art)