Mad #294 April 1990

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams

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• Ad for Subscriptions featuring A Pretentious Compendium of Mad's Very Best Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions by
  Al Jaffee and Mad Zaps the Human Race! by Frank Jacobs
  Big Book Bonuses
• Contents Page
• Ad for The Weather Mad Paperback
• Letters (photos of Candice Bergen ripping up #289,
  Tales from the Crypt Cryptkeeper reading #292,
  Dave Berg with some Soviet humor magazine guys)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Empty Mess (TV satire)
  (written by Josh Gordon / Mort Drucker art)
• The Double Dutch Deathtrap (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Do You Really Need to Know...
  (written by John Prete / Al Jaffee art / idea by Mary Pat Lindl)
• The Mad Career Mart
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Bob Clarke art)
• The Mad TV Coroner's Report - Volume II
  (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Spy vs. Spy (Bob Clarke)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• The Cannibal Coffee-Shop Conundrum (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Old MacDonald (song update)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Gerry Gersten art / Dan Lozer idea)
• The Mad "Don't" Book - (Chapters 2-5)
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Mad's Rock Quiz (written by Desmond Devlin / Rick Tulka art)
• Eavesdropper Shockers
  (written by Mike Snider / Bob Jones art)
• Drama on Page 32 (John Caldwell)
• The Art of Breaking Bad News Gently (written by Tom Koch)
• The Real Reasons Why You Can't Bring Your Friends Home! (Paul Peter Porges)
• Dorky Housecall, M.D. (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art)
• The Titillating Tennis Tumult (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Political Half-Truths
  (written by Chris Hart / George Woodbridge art)
• Get a Life!!!!!!!! (written by Charlie Kadau / Jack Davis art)
• Mad's Updated Book Titles for the 90's
  (written by William Garvin / Bob Clarke art)
• Fold-In -- What creature recently
  became extinct in Alaska? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- An Ad They'll Never Show - You've Got Cancer
  of the Hump! (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / John Pound art)