Mad #256 July 1985

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams
• Cover Writer: Al Jaffee

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• Fold-In -- What safe, cheap Star Wars technology
  would we like to suggest to The Pentagon? (Al Jaffee)
• Contents Page
• Letters
• Ads for The Plaid Mad & The Mad Self-Improvement Yearbook
  Paperbacks and Subscriptions
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Die-Nasty (TV satire)
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Mort Drucker art)
• One Fine Sunday Afternoon in the Jungle
  (written by Mat Jacobs / Don Martin art)
• The Mad Wrestling Primer
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Jack Davis art)
• Raising Money With Other Forms of Legalized Gambling
  (written by Tom Koch / George Woodbridge art)
• The Mad Emergency Barf-Inducing Technique -
  The Potrzebie Maneuver
  (written by John Ficarra / Al Jaffee art)
• Porn in the U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen song parody)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• One Fine Tuesday Morning Uptown
  (written by Mat Jacobs / Don Martin art)
• Join Mad's Trendy Book of the Month Club
  (written by Larry Siegel / Bob Clarke art)
• If Advertisers Made Use of Old Masters
  (written by Frank Jacobs)
• The Mad Practical Driving Test (idea by Elizabeth Swain)
  (written by Tom Koch / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Mad's "Goetz Mask" - Special Bonus - Wear This and
  No Mugger Will Mess With You!!! (Allan Tannenbaum photo)
  (idea by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder)
• Pastimes for Nerds (Paul Peter Porges)
• If the Miller Lite Beer Gang Ran This Country
  (written by Larry Siegel / Sam Viviano art)
• Mad's Really Perplexing Mysteries of Life
  (written by Mike Snider / Harry North, Esq. art)
• One Fine Friday Evening Downtown
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art)
• Beverly Hills Cop Out (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art)
• Back Cover -- The Trivial Pursuit Survival Kit
  (written by John Ficarra)

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• Last issue edited by Al Feldstein.
  He co-edited it with John Ficarra and Nick Meglin.