- 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)
- Penn Jillette essay - the thrill of getting drawn into Totally Recalled
(movie satire) (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art)
- Richard Williams: his first Mad cover #242
- Al Jaffee: Planned Obsolescence in Everyday Products (Al Jaffee)
- Editor's Pick: early versions showing the evolution of Mark Fredrickson's cover for #505
- Anthony Barbieri: Songs of Food (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
- Charlie Kadau:
Charade (newspaper parody) (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Sam Viviano art)
- Patrick Merrell: shares some rare, never-before-seen Sergio Aragones marginals
- Pendleton Ward sends his regards:
Mad Cover #520 (Chris Houghton art) and Mad's Do-It-Yourself Adventure Time Episode
- Butch D'Ambrosio: Baseball at the Bat (written by Frank Jacobs / James Warhola art)
- Tim Carvell: The Rejection Slip (Tom Hudson)
- Editor's Pick:
Things You Didn't Know About the Mayan Calendar (written by Jeff Kruse / Tom Bunk art)
- Dick DeBartolo: Stoppa-Da-Sneezin' (written by Dick DeBartolo / Irving Schild photo)
- Kit Lively: Mad Cover #229 (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art)
- Matthew Weiner essay - Sad Men (TV satire) (written by Arnie Kogen / Tom Richmond art)
- John Slattery paragraph
- Desmond Devlin: An Architectural Triumph (Al Jaffee)
- Rick Tulka: Tomorrow's Parents (written by Gary Belkin / Wally Wood art)
- Harry Hamlin essay - loved being on Mad Cover #274 (Mort Drucker art)
- Nick Meglin: Thirty-Suffering (TV satire) (written by Frank Jacobs / Mort Drucker art)
- Paul Feig essay
- Ad For Subscriptions with #94 bonus print
- Back Cover -- One Moment in Time (originally untitled written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Paul Coker art)
* "Mad Picks is an extended excerpt of the book
Inside Mad..."
Celebrity caricatures by
Rick Tulka throughout / Article Title Links Go To Original Source Issues