The Mad Archives - Volume 2
Issues 7-12 -- 2007

  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman from #7

  • Contents
  • Introduction by Frank Jacobs
  • Mad #7 -- Oct. - Nov. 1953
    • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
    • Melvin Can't Find Mad /
      Subscription Ad (Will Elder art)
    • Shermlock Shomes! (Will Elder art)
    • Treasure Island! (John Severin art)
    • Operation Under The Ground (chapter 1)
      (Harvey Kurtzman art)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • Hey Look! (Harvey Kurtzman early creations)
    • Smilin' Melvin! (Wally Wood art)
  • Mad #8 -- Dec. 1953 - Jan. 1954
    • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
    • Ad for E.C. Fan-Addict Club (Jack Davis art)
    • Frank N. Stein! (Will Elder art)
    • Lone Stranger Rides Again! (Jack Davis art)
    • Operation Under The Ground (chapter 2)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • Hey Look! (more Harvey Kurtzman early creations)
    • Bat Boy and Rubin! (Wally Wood art)
  • Mad #9 -- Mar. 1954
    • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
    • Ad for E.C. Fan-Addict Club (Jack Davis art)
    • Little Orphan Melvin! (Wally Wood art)
    • The Raven (Will Elder art)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • Ad for Panic (Jack Davis art)
    • Bop Jokes! (John Severin art)
    • Operation Under The Ground (chapter 3)
    • Hah! Noon! (Jack Davis art)
  • Mad #10 -- Apr. 1954
    • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
      (H. Antoine d'Arcy text)
    • Ad for Panic (Jack Davis art)
    • G.I. Shmoe! (Wally Wood art)
    • Sane! (John Severin art)
    • Operation Under The Ground (chapter 35)
      (Harvey Kurtzman)
    • Ad for E.C. Fan-Addict Club (Wally Wood art)
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    • Mad Mumblings
    • The Face Upon the Floor! (Jack Davis and Basil Wolverton art)
    • Woman Wonder! (Will Elder art)
  • Mad #11 -- May 1954
    • Cover Artist: Basil Wolverton
    • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
    • Beware of Imitations! - Ad For Mad (Jack Davis art)
    • Flesh Garden! (Wally Wood art)
    • Mad Reader! (Basil Wolverton art)
    • Ad for Panic (Jack Davis art)
    • Operation Under The Ground (chapter 87)
    • Murder the Husband! / Murder the Story! (Jack Davis art)
    • Beware of Imitations! - Ad For Mad (Jack Davis art)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • Dragged Net! (Will Elder art)
  • Mad #12 -- June 1954
    • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
    • Ad for Panic (Will Elder art)
    • Starchie (Will Elder art)
    • From Eternity Back to Here! (Bernie Krigstein art)
    • Operation Under the Ground (chapter 6)
    • Do People Laugh at You for Reading Comic Books? - Subscription Ad (Jack Davis art)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • 3-Dimensions! (Wally Wood art)
    • Mark Trade! (Jack Davis art)
  • Notes:
    All articles written by Harvey Kurtzman
    except for Operation Under The Ground (#7 - #9) written by Jerry DeFuccio,
    the text of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, the text of The Face Upon the Floor! by H. Antoine d'Arcy,
    and Murder the Husband! written by Al Feldstein
    Color by Marie Severin
    Article lettering by Ben Oda
  • Biographies of:
    Jack Davis, Jerry DeFuccio, Will Elder, William M. Gaines, Bernard Krigstein,
    Harvey Kurtzman, John Severin, Marie Severin, Basil Wolverton, Wallace Wood