Tales Calculated To Drive You
Mad #3 -- Spring 1998 Special

• Cover Artist: Will Elder
  (image from Frank N. Stein! in Mad #8)

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• Subscription Ad (Will Elder art from Mad #7)
• The Incomplete History of MAD Comics - Part 3
  (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Mad #7 -- Oct. - Nov. 1953
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Shermlock Shomes! (Will Elder art)
  • Treasure Island! (John Severin art)
  • Operation Under The Ground (chapter 1)
    (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Hey Look! (Harvey Kurtzman early creations)
  • Smilin' Melvin! (Wally Wood art)
• The Incomplete History of MAD Comics - Part 3
  (continued) (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Mad #8 -- Dec. 1953 - Jan. 1954
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Frank N. Stein! (Will Elder art)
  • Lone Stranger Rides Again! (Jack Davis art)
  • Operation Under The Ground (chapter 2)
  • Hey Look! (more Harvey Kurtzman early creations)
  • Bat Boy and Rubin! (Wally Wood art)
  • Operation Under The Ground (chapter 3) (from #9)
• Mad #9 -- March 1954
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Little Orphan Melvin! (Wally Wood art)
  • The Raven (Will Elder art)
  • Bop Jokes! (John Severin art)
  • Hah! Noon! (Jack Davis art)
• Ad for tons of Mad books

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• Entire issues written by Harvey Kurtzman except
  Operation Under The Ground written by Jerry DeFuccio
  and the text of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• Color by Marie Severin