The Mad Archives - Volume 3
Issues 13-18 -- 2012

  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman from #6

  • Contents
  • Introduction by Frank Jacobs
  • Mad #13 -- Jul. 1954
    • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
    • Ad for Panic (Will Elder art)
    • Prince Violent! (Wally Wood art)
    • Book! Movie! (Jack Davis art)
    • Essay in Greek
    • Ad for E.C. Fan-Addict Club (Wally Wood art)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • Baby Quips! (photos with captions)
    • Robinson Crusoe! (Will Elder art)
  • Mad #14 -- Aug. 1954
    • Cover Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci
    • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
    • No Need to Fight Over Mad / Subscription Ad
    • Manduck The Magician (Will Elder art)
    • Movie... Ads! (Wally Wood art)
    • Essay in Hungarian
    • Ad for E.C. Fan-Addict Club (Wally Wood art)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • The Countynental! (Jack Davis art)
    • Plastic Sam! (Russ Heath art)
  • Mad #15 -- Sep. 1954
    • Cover Artist: Sir John Tenniel
    • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman / Lewis Carroll
    • Ad for Panic (Will Elder art)
    • Gasoline Valley! (Will Elder art)
    • Pot-Shot Pete (Harvey Kurtzman)
    • Essay in Chinese
    • Ad for E.C. Fan-Addict Club (Jack Davis art)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • Wild 1 (correction) Wild 1/2 (Wally Wood art)
    • Captain TVideo! (Jack Davis art)
  • Mad #16 -- Oct. 1954
    • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
    • Ad for Panic (Will Elder art)
    • Shermlock Shomes in
      The Hound of the Basketballs! (Will Elder art)
    • Newspapers! (Jack Davis art)
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    • Article in Ancient Egyptian
    • Ad for Piracy (Wally Wood art)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • Restaurant! (Will Elder art)
    • Wreck of the Hesperus (Wally Wood art)
  • Mad #17 -- Nov. 1954
    • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
    • Mad King Playing Card / Subscription Ad
    • Bringing Back Father! (Will Elder and Bernie Krigstein art)
    • What's My Shine! (a better way to broadcast the McCarthy hearings) (Jack Davis art)
    • Essay from a small country
    • Ad for Piracy (Wally Wood art)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • Meet Miss Potgold (Will Elder and Basil Wolverton art)
    • Similar "Mad" -type comic book titles (Wally Wood art)
    • Julius Caesar! (Wally Wood art)
  • Mad #18 -- Dec. 1954
    • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
    • Mad King Playing Card / Subscription Ad
    • Alice in Wonderland! (Jack Davis art)
    • Howdy Dooit! (Will Elder art)
    • How Our Opinions Sound
    • Ad for Piracy (Wally Wood art)
    • Pot-Shot Pete (Harvey Kurtzman)
    • Mad Mumblings
    • Stalag 18! (Wally Wood art)
  • Notes:
    All articles written by Harvey Kurtzman
    except for the text of Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    and where some liberties were taken with Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel
    Color by Marie Severin
    Article lettering by Ben Oda
  • Biographies of:
    Jack Davis, Will Elder, William M. Gaines, Russ Heath, Bernard Krigstein,
    Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severin, Basil Wolverton, Wallace Wood