Mad #286 April 1989

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams
• Cover Writer: Sergio Aragones

  ---

• Ad for Subscriptions featuring Mad Buttons Bonus (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• Ad for Mad Jackpot Paperback
• Letters
  (Mort Drucker art for new Anthrax rock band album) (2-3)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• Thirty-Suffering (TV satire)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Mort Drucker art) (4-8)
• Hand-Me-Down (Sergio Aragones) (9)
• If Bad Taste Took a Holiday
  (written by Mike Snider / Al Jaffee art) (10-11)
• Spy vs. Spy - tank elephant
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art) (12)
• Really Appropriate Sponsors for Rock Tours
  (written by Charlie Kadau) (13-15)
• The Name Game of the Rich and Famous
  (written by John Prete / Mort Drucker art) (16-17)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (18-22)
• The Moron Downer Jr. Show (TV satire)
  (written by Larry Siegel / Jack Davis art) (23-26)
• Pot Luck (Sergio Aragones) (27)
• Guys You're Likely to Meet Before Mr. "Right"
  (written by Mike Snider / Alyse Newman art) (28-29)
• When TV Commercials Make Full Use of The Beatles Songs
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Harry North, Esq. art) (30-33)
• It's Safe to go to the Bathroom When...
  (Paul Peter Porges) (34-36)
• Spy vs. Spy - giant frog tongues flying spy
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art) (37)
• More You'd Be Rich if You Had a Nickel...
  (written by Charlie Kadau / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (38-39)
• 21 Junkheap (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art) (40-44)
• Don (Duck) Edwing Contemplates Suicide (45-47)
• Personal Ads That Remind Us of Somebody We Know or
  Nah, It Couldn't Be Them! (written by Lou Silverstone) (48)
• Fold-In -- What is the latest, most
  terrible form of radio activity? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- A Mad Fish Story
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Richard Williams art)