MAD #3 — Jan. – Feb. 1953

Contents

• Mad Mumblings

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  C2
• Dragged Net!

  Art by Will Elder

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD For Keeps — 1958
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #1 — Summer 1997
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  • MAD's Original Idiots — Will Elder — 2015
  1–8
• Sheik of Araby!

  French Foreign Legion Dept.

  Art by John Severin

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #1 — Summer 1997
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  9–15
• Rookie Gladiator — ads for other E.C. titles interspersed

  Art by Harvey Kurtzman

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #6 — Spring 1999 Special
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  16–17
• The Dandelion Caper

  Art by Harvey Kurtzman

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #5 — Fall 1998 Special
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  18
• V-Vampires!

  Horror Dept.

  Art by Wally Wood

  Reprinted in 7 collections

  • MAD Special #32 — Fall 1980
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #1 — Summer 1997
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  • Horrifyingly MAD — 2011
  • Inside MAD — 2013 (excerpt)
  • MAD Picks — Special Collector's Edition 2013 (excerpt)
  • MAD's Original Idiots — Wally Wood — 2015
  19–24
• Lone Stranger!

  Western Dept.

  Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 7 collections

  • The MAD Reader — 1954 (Paperback #1)
  • MAD Special #18 — Summer 1976 — The Nostalgic MAD #4
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #1 — Summer 1997
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • MAD's Original Idiots — Jack Davis — 2015 (excerpt)
  25–31 sample
• Real ads
  32, C3, C4

Credits

• Entire issue written by Harvey Kurtzman / except Rookie Gladiator and The Dandelion Caper written by Jerry DeFuccio
• Color by Marie Severin
• Article lettering by Ben Oda