Note: Will Elder is referred to as "Bill Elder" throughout this issue
Although Harvey Kurtzman typically wrote the material in the comic book issues of Mad, Will Elder claimed to have written most of this issue according to a John Benson interview of Elder for E.C. fanzine, Squa Tront #9, 1983
Announcement that Mad will change from comic book to magazine with issue #24
Notes on comic books 19-23:
All articles written by Harvey Kurtzman except for the text of Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Color by Marie Severin
Article lettering by Ben Oda
Cover Border Artists: Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
Mad Logo: Harvey Kurtzman
Bofforin (Ad parody) (Will Elder art)
Extremely important message from the editors (Harvey Kurtzman)
Gluggle! (movie poster parody) (Wally Wood art)
Contents (summary written by Harvey Kurtzman) and Letters
Ironmaidenfit (ad parody) (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
Mmboy Cream Deoderant (Ad parody) (Will Elder art)
Is a Trip to the Moon Possible? (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Wally Wood art)
Report from Russia (in Russian) (written by Harvey Kurtzman) / embedded: Tel-Tapper-Phoner
Out of the Frying Pan and into the Soup Bernie Krigstein art / written by Ira Wallach
Wrestling (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
Newspaper Comics (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
Classy Crimes #138: Who put the Strichnine in Mrs. Murphy's Husband? (written by Bernard Shir-Cliff / Will Elder art)
Anyone Can Build This Coffee Table (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
Is This Your Life? (TV satire) (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
Tom Swiffft and His Electric Ping Pong Ball Will Elder art / written by Ernie Kovacs
A Guide for Future Job Hunters
How to get the job you want by thinking positively and also get ahead by learning my five rules that will give you a new and unbelievable positive personality and help you achieve success (written by Roger Price)
Vera's Cruz (movie satire) (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
Ad parodies for Anasprin and Rubbaban (Will Elder art)
Pictoquiz (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
Pund's Cold Cream (ad parody) (Jack Davis art)
Excluded for an unknown reason are the inside back cover and back cover ad parodies: Bind-Aig Plastic Strips and Jell-y (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
Biographies of:
Jack Davis,
Will Elder,
William M. Gaines,
Bernard Krigstein,
Harvey Kurtzman,
Marie Severin,
Basil Wolverton,
Wallace Wood
