(written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art)
- Jack Davis: "My favorite artists are Wally Wood, Bill Elder,
and John Severin!" -- Splash pages from V-Vampires! (Wally Wood art),
Restaurant! (Will Elder art), and Varmint! (John Severin art) -- (all written by Harvey Kurtzman)
- Drew Friedman: Louis Farrakhan Christmas Carols (written by Frank Jacobs / Drew Friedman art)
- DANE COOK essay - Mad Cover #475 (Mark Fredrickson art)
- A Day in the Life of Dane Cook (written by Scott Maiko / Hermann Mejia art)
- Editor's Pick: One Sad Sunday at St. Sebastian's (written by Robert Therrien / Joe Orlando art)
- Mort Drucker: PUT*ON (movie satire) (written by Larry Siegel / Mort Drucker art)
- Hermann Mejia: marginals from Sergio Aragones
- Jeff Kruse: The Pet Peddler (written by Jeff Kruse / Scott Bricher art)
- Editor's Pick: Canadian Club - Alcoholics Anonymous (Lester Krauss photos / Bob Clarke art)
- James Warhola: Norman Mingo genius / Mad Cover #105
- KEN BURNS entry - One Fine Day During the Civil War (Don Martin)
- Dick DeBartolo: Stoppa-Da-Sneezin' (written by Dick DeBartolo / Irving Schild photo)
- Editor's Pick: MOMA - The Museum of Monkey Art - Winter/Spring Catalogue
(Hermann Mejia, Roberto Parada, Richard Williams, James Warhola art)
- Teresa Burns Parkhurst: How to Draw a Monkey (John Caldwell)
- Mark Fredrickson: Mad Cover #501 (with cardboard doodle by Sam Viviano)
- Anthony Barbieri: Songs of Food (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
- Desmond Devlin: An Architectural Triumph (Al Jaffee)
- Scott Nickel: Frankenstein assembling an Alfred E. Neuman - Cover #89
- Frank Santopadre: Dr. Kevorkian's Children's Book Club (Robert Tanenbaum art)
(written by Frank Santopadre and Michael Patrick Dobkins)
- JOHN STAMOS essay - America's Phoniest Home Videos Visits Fool House (TV satire)
(written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art)
- Editor's Pick:
Things You Didn't Know About the Mayan Calendar (written by Jeff Kruse / Tom Bunk art)
- David Shayne: Cheap Foreign Ripoffs of American Cartoons
(written by Sean Eisenporth / Sam Viviano art)
- Richard Williams: Return of the Jedi / A-Team Cover #242 (Richard Williams art)
- Charlie Kadau:
Charade (newspaper parody) (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Sam Viviano art)
- Michael Gallagher: The History of Communication (written by Michael Gallagher / Mort Drucker art)
- TONY HAWK entry - One Afternoon While Running an Errand (Don Martin)
- Al Jaffee: Planned Obsolescence in Everyday Products (Al Jaffee)
- ICE-T entry - Lewd & Disorder: It's P.U. (TV satire) (written by Arnie Kogen / Mort Drucker art)
- Frank Jacobs: Park-David Great Moments in Medicine - Presenting the Bill (Kelly Freas art)
- Bonus Two-Sided Poster Insert!
- Tom Cheney's convulsive laughter at KLINGDINGGOON!:
At the Academy of Electric Fan Repair (Don Martin)
- Mad in Movies - two-page section of movie stills where Mad made an appearance
- Sergio Aragones: truly wild wildlife of Paul Peter Porges A Mad Look at Other Uses for Live Lobsters
- Darren Johnson: Rumbaflex 2000 "Now You're In Control" (written by Jim Barton / Malinda Dunn art)
- A Letter from Slash - cover of Mad #330 (Richard Williams art)
- Irving Schild: The Day That "Ajax" got the Housewife out of the Kitchen a Little Too Fast!
- PENN JILLETTE essay - the thrill of getting drawn into Totally Recalled
(movie satire) (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art)
- Barry Liebmann: Mad School Songs for Everyday Activities
(written by Frank Jacobs / George Woodbridge art)
- Rick Geary: the entire contents of issue #49
- JEFF PROBST essay - cover #405 (James Bennett art)
- Survivoyeur (TV satire) (written by Dick DeBartolo / Bill Wray art)
- Mike Snider: James Bond Villains' Pet Peeves (written by Desmond Devlin / Drew Friedman art)
- Editor's Pick: Why George W. Bush is in Favor of Global Warming - A Mad Exposé
(written by Jacob Lambert) (click to see the ten Pulitzer Prize winning artists)
- Tom Bunk: Spy vs. Spy Tribute Mini Poster (Tom Bunk art)
- Editor's Pick: early versions showing the evolution of Mark Fredrickson's cover for #505
- Patrick Merrell: shares some rare, never-before-seen Sergio Aragones marginals
- Lou Silverstone: Clodumbo (TV satire) (written by Lou Silverstone / Angelo Torres art)
- Christopher Baldwin: One Fine Day in the Middle Ages (Don Martin)
- PENDLETON WARD sends his regards:
Mad Cover #520 (Chris Houghton art) and Mad's Do-It-Yourself Adventure Time Episode
- Harry North: Shares a letter to him from Al Jaffee with artistic advice on blending pencil and ink
- Mad on TV - two-page section of television stills where Mad made an appearance
- Tim Carvell: The Rejection Slip (Tom Hudson)
- Jonathan Bresman picks some favorites from The Strip Club:
- Arnie Kogen: Henna and Her Sickos (movie satire) (written by Debbee Ovitz / Mort Drucker art)
- Joe Raiola: When Other Comic Strips Start Using the "Far Side" Formula
(written by Charlie Kadau / Bob Clarke art)
- HARRY HAMLIN essay - loved being on Mad Cover #274 (Mort Drucker art)
- Dennis Snee: Mad cover #171 (Norman Mingo art)
- Tom Richmond: The Mad "Comic" Opera (written by Frank Jacobs / Wally Wood art)
- Editor's Pick: Banana Republican (catalogue parody) (written by Frank Santopadre / Scott Bricher art)
- Peter Kuper: When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again (idea by Max Brandel / Jack Thurston art)
and an example of one of his Spy vs. Spy works (bomb within airplane)
- Ward Sutton: Gulf Wars: Clone of the Attack
(written by Arie Kaplan and Scott Sonneborn / Scott Bricher art)
- Lenny Brenner: being drawn into Mad articles by Angelo Torres like Jerkules and Zima (TV satire)
(written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art)
- DAVID LYNCH: "The characters in Mad Magazine were like family to me.
I always considered Alfred E. Neuman as a brother."
- John Caldwell: The Extraordinary Eulogy Entrapment and
The Peculiar Papal Parable - both by Don (Duck) Edwing
- Ryan Flanders: Kanye West's Most Moronic Tweets (written by Jacob Lambert / Sam Sisco art
- Annie Gaines: America, the Beautiful - Revisited (Frank Jacobs and Max Brandel)
- MATTHEW WEINER essay - Sad Men (TV satire) (written by Arnie Kogen / Tom Richmond art)
- JOHN SLATTERY paragraph
- Stan Sinberg: Concertina Expanding Can (Lester Krauss photo)
- Andrew J. Schwartzberg: How to Tell if You've Selected a Bad HMO (John Caldwell)
- Nick Meglin: Thirty-Suffering (TV satire) (written by Frank Jacobs / Mort Drucker art)
- Larry Siegel: Children's Safety Songs / Up-To-Date Safety Songs For Children
(written by Larry Siegel / Joe Orlando art)
- GEORGE LOPEZ essay - The Latino connection to Antonio Prohias and Spy vs Spy (flamethrower diverter)
- Scott Bricher: Season's Greetings from the NRA (Scott Bricher art) (with letter from Charlton Heston)
- Sam Sisco: The Jedi Bunch (written by Charlie Kadau / Sam Sisco art)
- Editor's Pick: Airport Maps Reveal What Cities Are Really Famous For (Al Jaffee)
- PAUL FEIG essay
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