Mad #402 February 2001

• Cover Artist: Mark Fredrickson
• Cover Writer: Tom Cheney

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• Subscriptions Ad
  (Richard Williams art from Special #104) (C2)
• Vey To Go - gunshot wound recovery (P. C. Vey)
• Contents Page (1-3)
• Ad for The Mad Gross Book book
• Letters (photos of Al Jaffee, Sam Viviano, Jack Davis, Nick Meglin, Mort Drucker, Kelly Freas, John Ficarra, Richard Williams, Lenny Brenner, Charlie Kadau, Nadina Simon, David Shayne, Amy Vozeolas, Ryan Flanders, Barry Liebmann, Kyle Baker, Ray Alma, Butch D'Ambrosio, Greg Leitman, Irving Schild, Marla Wyche at 400th issue celebration and book signing for release of Mad Cover to Cover at Warner Bros. Studio Store in New York City, Nov. 9th, 2000) (4-5)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• The Worst Wing (TV satire)
  (written by Arnie Kogen / Mort Drucker art) (6-11)
• Mad's Guide to Safe Scootering (Tom Cheney) (12-14)
• Obituaries for Video Game Characters
  (written by Desmond Devlin / Kevin Greene art) (15-17)
• Suburban Deviants and Their Really Minor Crimes
  (written by Ryan Pagelow / Amanda Conner art) (18-19)
• Monroe &... President's Day
  (written by Anthony Barbieri / Bill Wray art) (20-23)
• Rejected Playboy Playmates
  (written by Jeff Kruse / Hermann Mejia art) (24-25)
• Specialized State Death Penalties
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Tom Bunk art) (26-28)
• A Bank Letter You're Sure to Get
  (written by Jeff Kruse) (29)
• Spy vs. Spy - shark trap (Peter Kuper) (30-31)
• "Likelihood-of-Outcome" Charts
  For Those Stupid Things We All Do
  (written by Mike Snider / George Woodbridge art) (32-33)
• 6 Degrees of Separation Between Anyone and Anything - Part V (written by Mike Snider / Rick Tulka art) (34-35)
• A Mad Look at The World Wrestling Federation
  (Sergio Aragones) (36-39)
• Meek With the Parents (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art) (40-44)
• Gross and Beyond Gross - The Sequel
  (John Caldwell) (45-47)
• Mad's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds:
  Jennifer Lopez
  (written by Mike Snider / Hermann Mejia art) (48)
• Fold-In -- What heavy issue is weighing
  mightily on today's students? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- One Fine Day on Main Street (Al Jaffee)

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• Last issue until #517, October 2012, to have a back cover article and not an advertisement.