Doug Gilford's Mad Cover Site

established August 16, 1997A resource for collectors and fans of the
world's most important (ecch!) humor publication.

All covers, Mad material copyright © 1952-2026 EC Publications.

This site is not affiliated with Mad Magazine or EC Publications
or DC Entertainment or DC Comics or Time Warner
or Warner Brothers Entertainment
or WarnerMedia or AT&T or Warner Bros. Discovery
(but I think they're OK with most of it).

Site text and layout copyright © 1997-2026 Doug Gilford.

If you use a scan for your site or elsewhere in social media,
do the right thing and at least leave my tag on the image
and/or give credit back to MadCoverSite.com -- Thanks!

Questions, corrections, clarifications, general banter,
encouraging words, reality checks, weather reports...
E-mail: madcoversite@yahoo.com


My goal for the site was simple over 28 years ago. Display regular issue front covers.
A lot more has been added over the years. Here's a rough evolution of those additions:
  • Front cover scans of regular issues with rudimentary content listings
  • Complete contents of article titles in order of occurrence
  • Credited writers and artists
  • Complete Movie and TV satire charts
  • Maintaining a price list courtesy of Overtstreet
  • Presented The Don Martin Dictionary in an online form
  • Rescanned and improved/enlarged front cover scans to fit bigger monitors
  • Magazine back cover scans
  • Annuals (The Worst from Mad, More Trash from Mad, Mad Follies)
  • Mad Super Specials
  • Linked reprinted article titles back to their original sources in the regular issues
  • Charted the contributions of all Mad contributors
  • Created an interactive version of Sergio Aragonés' Inside Mad offices poster
  • Paperbacks
  • All the other various Specials to the current day
  • Grouped recurring article types / features into their own lists
  • Mad Books
  • Hosted the auctions of Tim Johnson / reprinted his original catalogs
  • Reprinted Ed Norris' 1990-2002 71-issue run of his The MAD Panic fanzine
  • Made an attempt to categorize and describe all Sergio Aragonés marginals (got to about 40%)
  • Added page number spans to all regular issue articles, indicating article length
    and which page (even number left / odd number right) an article began on
  • Added Alfred E. Neumanisms to each regular issue page as they appeared above issue contents
  • Gradually adding pop-up info about where articles were reprinted along with article DEPT. headings
And I continue to tweak things now and then to try to make this the best resource of its kind.

If you've got nothing better to do with your money...
Help offset the costs of running this thing!



Another thing you can do is buy your MADs (or any other thing) through Amazon.
Spread around the issue pages you'll find links like this one.
Referral fees credit me around a nickel per buck you spend with them.