MAD #373 — September 1998

"Every dog has its day, but in dog years that's like a whole week!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Dave Berg makes cover of Pipes and Tobaccos magazine, Ad for Tales Calculated to Drive You MAD #5 — Fall 1998, contains reprints of comics #13, #14, and #15 — Frank Jacobs text
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Orwreck XL Vacuum (ad parody)

  Alas, Poor Oreck Dept.

  Written by John Prete / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MADvertising — 2005
  4
• Sleep Impact (movie satire)

  Situation Comet-y Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #25 — January 2004
  5–9
• Spy vs. Spy — dummy astronaut h-bomb

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Classics #2 — September 2005
  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  • MAD Presents Spy Vs. Spy — An Explosive Celebration — 2015
  • MAD Spoofs Star Wars and Other Sci-Fi — Special Collector's Edition 2017
  10–11
• MAD's Blueprint for Boosting Baseball's Popularity

  Our Bleacher Presentation Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #28 — July 2004
  12–15
• Minimum Wage Job Aptitude Test

  Low Threshold of Pay Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Timothy Shamey

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #30 — November 2004
  16–17
• Monroe &... Back-to-School

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray
  18–20
• The Old Sportsmanship versus The New Sportsmanship

  Pros & Conduct Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Keith Seidel

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #26 — March 2004
  21–23
• Ginger Spice's Farewell Letter

  When the Quit Hits the Fan Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin
  24–25
• Pop-Off Video — Marcy Playground "Sex & Candy"

  VH-Dumb Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin
  26
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #26 — March 2004
  27–30
• Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to Summer Camp

  The Schmucks Stop Here Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Kevin Pope
  31–33 sample
• Countdown to Armageddon

  Kiss Your Asteroid Goodbye Dept.

  Written by Mike Mikula / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD XL #29 — August 2004
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  34–37
• The Freakland Mint Proudly Presents
  Commemorative Plates of Revisionist History

  Mind Over Platter Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by James Warhola

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #27 — June 2004
  38–39 sample
• A MAD Look at the Boss

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  40–42
• MAD Investigates the Psychic Hotline Business

  Seers and Mo' Bucks Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Rick Geary
  43–46
• Pop-Off Video — Natalie Imbruglia "Torn"

  VH-Dumb Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin
  47
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Leonardo DiCaprio

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #12 — January 2007
  48
• Fold-In — What company has a lot of people going wild over its bottom line?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964-2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — A Street Sign We're Afraid We'll See

  Art by Sam Viviano

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Color Classics #8 — September 2003
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
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