Mad #444 August 2004

• Cover Artist: Mark Fredrickson

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• Contents Page
• Letters
• Ad for The Mad Bathroom Companion -
  The Gushing Fourth Edition book
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The Fundalini Pages (Ray Alma, Scott Bricher, Tom Bunk,
  John Caldwell, Tom Cheney, Desmond Devlin,
  Don (Duck) Edwing, Garth Gerhart, Gary Hallgren, Jeff Kruse, Scott Maiko, Patrick Merrell, Steve Rosso, Mike Snider,
  Jack Syracuse, P. C. Vey)
  • Initial Steps by the U.S. Government to
    Improve Conditions at Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison

• If Peter Parker had been Bitten by Other Radioactive Creatures
• Personal Ad of the Month
• Bitterman
• Classified Ads
• The Godfrey Report
• The Cover We Didn't Use
• Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - Paris Hilton
• Graphic Novel Review - Incredi-Man Archives
• New Technology Culled From Downed Alien Spacecraft
• The Puzzle Nook
• Pull My Cheney!
• After Devoting an Entire Broadcast to Reading the Names of U.S. Iraqi War Casualties...
  What Other Gimmicks is Ted Koppel Planning for Nightline?
• The First Five Guys in Line to See Spider-Man 2
• Las Vaguest (TV satire) (written by Charlie Kadau / Mort Drucker art)
• Mad's Heroically-Awful Spider-Man 2 Outtakes (written by Dick DeBartolo)
• Only a Democrat Could Possibly Believe... (written by Russ Cooper / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Monroe and... Europe - Part One (written by Anthony Barbieri / Bill Wray art)
• The Last Supper - Circa 2004 (poster) (Richard Williams art)
• A Cell Phone-Camera Geek's Photo Album (written by Mike Snider / Drew Friedman art)
• Spider-Man Has a Bad Week! (written by Arie Kaplan / Kevin Pope art)
• You Know a Rapper's Gone Soft When... (written by Jacob Lambert / Hermann Mejia art)
• A Mad Look at Space Exploration (Sergio Aragones)
• Only a Republican Could Possibly Believe... (written by Russ Cooper / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions (Al Jaffee / color by Wildstorm)
• Duke Bissell's Tales of Undisputed Interest (P. C. Vey)
• How to Think Like a Superstar (written by Barry Liebmann / Bob Staake art)
• Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
• From the Case Files of Wanda Goldstein Flenkman: Pet Psychologist (Teresa Burns Parkhurst)
• Pet Peeves of Spider-Man's Girlfriend (John Caldwell)
• Fold-In -- What will be the most grueling event in the upcoming olympics? (Al Jaffee)