Mad Special #125 December 1997

(Big Bad Mad - Alien I & II)

• Cover Artists:
  Will Elder and Harvey Kurtzman (from #268)

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• Ad for subscriptions
• Contents Page
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Alias (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art)
• As Seen By... (John Pound art)
  (written by Edie Smith and Darren Johnson)
• Basic Underlying Premises of Various Products, Trends and Ideas (written by Mike Snider / John Caldwell art)
• You've Been Looking for Waldo - Now Where's...?
  (Paul Peter Porges)
• Spy Vs. Spy - razor through belt drops pants
  (written by Antonio Prohias / Bob Clarke art)
• Mad's Merchandiser of the Year
  (written by Stan Hart / Angelo Torres art)
• A Mad Look at Tools (Sergio Aragones)
• Mad's Consumer Believe It or Nuts
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Bob Clarke art)
• Introduction page to Mad: The Lost Pages
  (James Warhola series intro art /
  Kathi Maloney Pages design)
  • Mad's Al Jaffee Spews Out More
    Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions
    (reprinted pages from his 1972 paperback)
• Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself National Scandal
  Newspaper Story (written by Frank Jacobs)
• The Controversial Convict's Comeuppance
  (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Alienators (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Jack Davis art)
• Salesmen's Claims and Come-Ons That Should Set You Running (written by Dick DeBartolo / Tom Bunk art)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• Spy vs. Spy - catapult's boulder returned by large racket
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art)
• Still More Runners-Up to "The Three Biggest Lies in America" (written by John Prete / Harry North, Esq. art)
• A Mad Look at How Far We've Come
  (written by Tom Koch / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• The Perplexing Penitentiary Ploy (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• The New Benchmarks, Records and Barriers
  That Mankind is Rapidly Approaching - Part II
  (written by Mike Snider / Tom Bunk art)
• Reel vs. Real (written by Russ Cooper / Sam Viviano art)
• The Hymn of the Battered Republic
  (written by Frank Jacobs / George Woodbridge art)
• Mad Product Registration Form (written by Charlie Kadau)
• Fold-In -- What failure of American society is weighing heavily on many of today's teens? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover --
  Johnnie Warper - Good Taste is Always in Absence
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola)
  (Irving Schild photo)