Mad #272 July 1987

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams

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• Ad for Subscriptions featuring Don Martin Big Book Bonus
• Contents Page
• Letters (photos of Don Johnson with a Mad)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Best of the Millenium (1000 A.D. - 2000 A.D.) Reader's Poll
  (written by Mike Snider)
• ARFul (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art)
• A Mad Look at Fast Food (Sergio Aragones)
• Mad's Alibis for All Occasions
  (written by Tom Koch / Jack Davis art)
• One Fine Day in North Calamari
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art)
• The Flim Flam Film Man - Magazine for Videocassette Rental Store Owners (written by Stan Hart / George Woodbridge art)
• Spy vs. Spy (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art)
• More Celebrity Silhouettes
  (written by Rurik Tyler / Bob Clarke art)
• Forget Smart (TV rerun satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art)
• Bush (with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Gerry Gersten art)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• When American TV Progams are Shown in Russia
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Angelo Torres art)
• A Mad Guide to Show-Biz Success
  (written by Mike Snider / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Rock Groups on the Way Up (written by Christopher Allen)
• Sports Activities for the Hyperactive (Paul Peter Porges)
• Why the U.S. Government Really Spends So Much
  (written by Tom Koch / George Woodbridge art)
• One Fine Day in the South Bronx
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art)
• Mad Visits an Organ Transplant Hospital
  (Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder art)
  (written by Lou Silverstone)
• It's a Crummy Job... "But Somebody's Gotta Do It!"
  (written by John Ellis Sech / Al Jaffee art)
• Fold-In -- Who conducted the most exhaustive
  Washington probe recently? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover --
  Witless Windbag Wrestler's Federation Magazine
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Irving Schild photo)