MAD Magazine Letter Pages Recurring Features
Make A Dumb Wish Foundation
in Order of Appearance in Regular Issues
MAD told the readers in Issue #374 that they would entertain the idea of granting the dumb wishes of dumb readers depending on time, space and the dumbness of the wish!
| Feature Title | Dumb Wish | Issue / Date |
|---|---|---|
| Make A Dumb Wish! | Put Dad’s Name In Your Next Issue | 374 — Oct 1998 |
| Size Does Matter | Make regular MAD thicker or lower the Special cost | 374 — Oct 1998 |
| The Return Of MAD Pros And Cons | MAD Forwarding Letter by Librarian to Make A Dumb Wish Foundation. | 377 — Jan 1999 |
| Out Of ’Toon | Print My Cartoon | 378 — Feb 1999 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Do The Next Issue In Your Underwear | 379 — Mar 1999 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | If Accepted To Grad School, Could You Pay The $3,700 Debt | 382 — Jun 1999 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print My Story About Crushes On Girls | 384 — Aug 1999 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print “Renee Hendrie is Steven Tyler’s #1 Fan” | 385 — Sep 1999 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Find A Really Big Rock, Pick It Up and Fly It Out By Helicopter Over The Ocean and Drop It In The Water Just To See How Big A Splash It Makes | 387 — Nov 1999 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Send Me A Copy Of Each Cover Since Alfred Appeared | 389 — Jan 2000 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Story of Woman Standing In Front Of The Window In Her Underwear (Editor wonders “What’s your bloody wish?”) | 390 — Feb 2000 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Insult Me On Your Letters Page | 393 — May 2000 |
| Make A Dumb Wish FoundationPart II | (MAD Makes Fun of Jacob Schuman. Thereby, Granting His Request From Earlier On This Letters Page) | 393 — May 2000 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print Melvin’s Name | 395 — Jul 2000 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Mention My Country (Wales) In MAD and Let Everyone Know We’re A Nation In Our Own Right and Not Just Another Part Of England | 396 — Aug 2000 |
| Cannon Bawl | MAD Asks Their Own “Make A Dumb Wish Foundation” To Make Their Wish Come True: To Insult The Letter Writer | 398 — Oct 2000 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Can You Set Up A Branch Office In Singapore With Me As Chief Marketing Officer, For $7,000 (U.S.) Per Month | 399 — Nov 2000 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print “Elissa Nelson loves Michael Spector” | 400 — Dec 2000 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Have Antonio Prohias Make A New “Spy Vs. Spy Vs. Spy” (Antonio Prohias died two years prior — See Letters Page for Issue #371) | 403 — Mar 2001 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print “Holly, Jim really wants to go to prom with you” | 406 — Jun 2001 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Stop Putting Advertisements In MAD | 407 — Jul 2001 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make Fun of Entenmann’s Commercials | 408 — Aug 2001 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make An Article Comparing George W. Bush To A Dog (Preferably a Chihuahua) | 409 — Sep 2001 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Neuman Come To My House | 410 — Oct 2001 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print My Poem Written In English Class | 411 — Nov 2001 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | See A Sports Satire On Major League Lacrosse In An Upcoming Issue | 412 — Dec 2001 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Insult Osama Bin Laden In Your Magazine | 413 — Jan 2002 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Write A MAD Movie Satire For Death Of A Salesman By Arthur Miller | 414 — Feb 2002 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | For My Car, A 1990 Gray Toyota Corolla, To Be A Moving Advertisement For MAD Magazine | 415 — Mar 2002 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Have “A MAD Look at Osama bin Laden” In An Upcoming Issue | 416 — Apr 2002 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Go On A Date With Alfred E. Neuman | 417 — May 2002 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Send A Letter To My Mom To Convince Her I Want To Change My Name To Alfred E. Neuman | 418 — Jun 2002 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print My Letter and Not My Friends’ and Send Me Next Month’s Issue Free (MAD received THREE letters and printed ALL OF THEM) | 420 — Aug 2002 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Could MAD Respond In Haiku? | 421 — Sep 2002 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Tell Me What “BYPR OHIAS” (The Morse Code Message) Means From The “Spy Vs. Spy” Article In MAD #416 (MAD responded in Morse Code) | 423 — Nov 2002 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print a Picture of Osama bin Laden With a Red-Hot Rod Driven Through His Head (In Reply to Make A Dumb Wish Foundation in Issue #413) | 424 — Dec 2002 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make Fun of The Not-So-Great State North Carolina | 426 — Feb 2003 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Give Me The Dummy of The Year Award by MAD | 427 — Mar 2003 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | After Seeing Amanda Conner’s Self-Portrait In Issue #423, Hook Me Up On a Date With Her | 427 — Mar 2003 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Give A Dictionary Definition of Potrzebie | 428 — Apr 2003 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Turn My Own Room Into a MAD Subscription Office | 429 — May 2003 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Write In One of Your Magazines “Chris Bivens, your ’66 Le Mans is cool.” | 430 — Jun 2003 |
| Another Define Mess | (In Reply to Make A Dumb Wish Foundation in Issue #428, Readers Respond to MAD’s Request to Give A Dictionary Definition of Potrzebie.) | 431 — Jul 2003 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Alter The Color of Cranberries To Red and Alter Everyone’s Memory So That The New Red Color Seems Perfectly Normal To Everyone | 431 — Jul 2003 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Assassinate Disney’s The Little Mermaid | 434 — Oct 2003 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | The Entire “Usual Gang of Idiots” To Spend A Few Weeks In Egypt | 435 — Nov 2003 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make Fun Of My Last Name, Phillips | 436 — Dec 2003 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make Fun of People Who Live On Instant Messenger | 437 — Jan 2004 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print The Photo That Bombed Me Out Of My Intro To Photography Class and Send Me Non-Explosive, Non-Perishable, Non-Ramen Items | 438 — Feb 2004 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make a Caricature of Me In Your Magazine | 439 — Mar 2004 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Turn My Plain Old Room Into a Room Fit For a Fan of MAD | 440 — Apr 2004 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Work for MAD Magazine and Don’t Want To Be Paid an Exorbitant Amount of Money | 441 — May 2004 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make Fun of My Last Name, Blond, and Prove My Dad Wrong About Holding Some Form of Pride In Such a Name | 442 — Jun 2004 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | For All of You Americans Please Look Past The Stereotypical Image of us Canadians | 443 — Jul 2004 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Using Your Highly Advanced Computer Graphics, Could You Soup Up My Ride, a 1976 Datsun 710 Station Wagon | 444 — Aug 2004 |
| The Big Pimp Out | (In Reply to Make A Dumb Wish Foundation in Issue #444, Readers Respond to MAD’s Request to Pimp Out a 1976 Datsun 710 Station Wagon) | 447 — Nov 2004 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Have My Letter Printed In MAD Before The Year Is Over (MAD has printed his letters every 14 years: Issue #183 (June 1976), Issue #296 (July 1990) and even mentioned his name in a reply to a letter: “It’s A Gas” in Issue #332 (December 1994)!) | 449 — Jan 2005 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Put My Brother’s Name, Adam, On Your Letter Page So He Can See It When He Reads Your Magazine On The Toilet | 451 — Mar 2005 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Be The Subject of a MAD Fold-In by Al Jaffee Published In MAD | 453 — May 2005 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Give Me a Short Original Comic Strip For a Local DIY Magazine In Houston | 454 — Jun 2005 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Put This Message On Your Letters Page: “Courtney will you go out with me again?” | 456 — Aug 2005 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Give Me The Ingredients For Monkey Juice and Print a Photo of your Editor | 457 — Sep 2005 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Acknowledge My Obsession With Squirrels and Print a Picture of a Squirrel | 459 — Nov 2005 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Write a Lengthy Letter to My Parents (Chris and Christine) Explaining Why They Should Pay For Cable or Buy us a Big Screen TV | 460 — Dec 2005 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Have Viktor Krum Die So Emma Watson (Hermione from Harry Potter) Would Be In Search of a 10-year-old Muggle Who Lives In East Lansing, MI and Goes To Denley School (No Name was given on the letter) | 462 — Feb 2006 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Invent a Calculator That When You Point It At Something, It Counts All of The Things Up and Tells You How Much Is In The Pile | 463 — Mar 2006 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Free Lifetime Subscription To MAD and some Bazooka Gum | 464 — Apr 2006 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Publish Our Wedding Announcement Showing Alfred E. Neuman as The Judge that Married us | 465 — May 2006 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Surrender Your Company To Me (or I Will Fire Each and Every One Of You) | 467 — Jul 2006 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Convince My Mom To Lighten Up Because I Just Lost My Cell Phone For The 1,000th Time | 468 — Aug 2006 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make EVERY Store Sell MAD | 469 — Sep 2006 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Size The Magazine Down So Kids Like Me Won’t Have Detention Every Other Day | 472 — Dec 2006 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print a Spoof, Comic or Anything That’s Funny and Makes “High School Musical” Look Bad | 473 — Jan 2007 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Give Me a Private E-mail or Phone Number So That I Could Call MAD For Advice For Writing My Very Own MAD-style Magazine | 475 — Mar 2007 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Include an Iron-on Print In Your Next Issue | 476 — Apr 2007 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print This Letter and Picture So I Can Present It As a Wedding Gift | 478 — Jun 2007 |
| Make A Dumb Wish FoundationUPDATE | Retract a Letter I Wrote To The Make A Dumb Wish Foundation in Issue #460 | 478 — Jun 2007 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Send Me A Box of Five MAD Magazines and 100,000 Subscription Cards | 482 — Oct 2007 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Tell My Dad A Cool Place That Would Be Fun To Visit, Except Toronto, Canada (That’s Where He Wants To Go) | 485 — Jan 2008 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Send Me a Boxload of MAD’s So I Can Start A MAD Library Section in the School’s Library | 486 — Feb 2008 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Publish This Old Picture of Me and My Recently Married Brother Marcelo as My Wedding Gift to Him | 488 — Apr 2008 |
| Better Off Wed | (In Reply to Make A Dumb Wish Foundation in Issue #478, MAD asked them to send a photograph from their wedding day) | 489 — May 2008 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Put On The Front of MAD a Warning that says: “Eating a Snickers Bar while reading magazine could cause chunks of peanut to shoot through your nose” or Publish My Letter | 490 — Jun 2008 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print My Letter In The July Issue, I Turn 50 This July, See the July 1958 Cover (Issue #40) used in “What the Heck is the Difference,” Have Someone Explain Who The Heck Is or Was Max Korn | 492 — Aug 2008 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Publish The Front Of This Note Card | 495 — Nov 2008 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Print Our Letter | 496 — Dec 2008 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Send a Bunch of Magazines For My Dad To Become Enlightened and To Teach My Mom The Amazing Ways Of Your Brilliant Humor | 499 — Apr 2009 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Send Me a Whole Bunch of MAD Magazines, Because My Grandma Deprived Me of Mine | 500 — Jun 2009 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Have The Third Spy in “Spy Vs. Spy Vs. Spy” Blown Away or Crushed For Good and Never Be Heard From Again | 501 — Oct 2009 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Give Me an Xbox 360 or At Least a Year’s Subscription To MAD | 505 — Oct 2010 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Send Me Some Parody Posters For My Walls | 508 — Apr 2011 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | In Your Next Issue, Do a MAD Spoof About The Gory and Disgusting Show That My Family Adores: Bones | 510 — Aug 2011 |
| The Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make My Picture of My Robot, Alfred E. Neuman (Albot), A Cover For Your Magazine or At Least Appear In The Magazine | 515 — Jun 2012 |
| The Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Have My Wife Start Reading MAD So Then Her Intelligence Should Drop Enough So That I’ll Be On An Even Par | 516 — Aug 2012 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make The Fold-In Have Pre-Perforated Creases For Ease of Folding | 517 — Oct 2012 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Make a Book of John Caldwell’s Work | 518 — Dec 2012 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Because I’m Going To Switch From MAD To Some Grown-up Rag, Provide Me The Funds For a MAD-themed 40th Birthday Party or a Plaque For Reading MAD For 30-plus Years | 519 — Feb 2013 |
| Make A Dumb Wish Foundation | Get Me A New MAD Magazine Board Game | 529 — Oct 2014 |
Compiled by John R. Racano
