MAD #11 — May 1954

Contents

• Beware of Imitations! — Ad for MAD

  Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • The MAD Reader — 1954 (Paperback #1)
  • MAD Special #9 — Summer 1973 — The Nostalgic MAD #1
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 2 — 2007
  C2 sample
• Flesh Garden!

  Science-Fiction Dept.

  Art by Wally Wood

  Reprinted in 8 collections

  • The MAD Reader — 1954 (Paperback #1)
  • MAD Special #24 — Summer 1978 — The Nostalgic MAD #6
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #4 — Summer 1998
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 2 — 2007
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • MAD's Original Idiots — Wally Wood — 2015
  1–8
• Mad Reader!

  Special Feature Dept.

  Art by Basil Wolverton

  Reprinted in 14 collections

  • MAD Special #12 — Summer 1974 — The Nostalgic MAD #2
  • MAD Special #72 — Fall 1990 (excerpt for cover)
  • MAD Special #113 — June 1996 (excerpt for cover)
  • MAD Special #118 — February 1997 (excerpt for cover)
  • MAD Special #130 — August 1998 (excerpt for cover)
  • (many regular issue house ads used colorized excerpts of the Wolverton art)
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #4 — Summer 1998
  • MAD XL #6 — November 2000 (excerpt)
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD XL #29 — August 2004
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 2 — 2007
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • MAD #28 — December 2022
  • 70th Anniversary Issue — Vol. 3 — December 2022 — B&N Edition
  • MAD #42 — April 2025
  9–14 sample
• Ad for Panic

  Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Archives — Volume 2 — 2007
  15
• Operation Under The Ground (chapter 87)

  Cloak and Dagger Dept.

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #4 — Summer 1998
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 2 — 2007
  16
• Murder the Husband! / Murder the Story!

  Quickie Comic Dept.

  Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • Completely MAD — 1991 (excerpt)
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #4 — Summer 1998
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 2 — 2007
  • MAD's Original Idiots — Jack Davis — 2015
  17–22
• Beware of Imitations! — Ad for MAD

  Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • The MAD Reader — 1954 (Paperback #1)
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 2 — 2007
  23
• Mad Mumblings

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Archives — Volume 2 — 2007
  24
• Dragged Net!

  Crime Dept.

  Art by Will Elder

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • The MAD Reader — 1954 (Paperback #1)
  • Completely MAD — 1991 (excerpt)
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #4 — Summer 1998
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 2 — 2007
  • MAD's Original Idiots — Will Elder — 2015
  25–31
• Real ads
  32, C3, C4

Credits

• Entire issue written by Harvey Kurtzman / except Murder the Husband! written by Al Feldstein
• Color by Marie Severin
• Article lettering by Ben Oda