MAD #51 — December 1959

"A fellow will go out with a girl if she's really different from other girls… the difference being she'll go out with him!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Hames Underwear for Men and Boys (ad parody)

  Written by Larry Siegel / Art by Kelly Freas

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • More Trash From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • MADvertising — 2005
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters Dept.

  Notes

  • Ads for Alfred E. Neuman portrait; MAD Forever, MAD For Keeps; MAD T-Shirts and MAD Straight Jackets ("Deck Your Friends in Clothes of Folly!") (bar scene with Jerry DeFuccio, Lenny Brenner — Lester Krauss photo); Subscriptions
  2–3
• New Singers for Old Songs

  Marginal Thinking Dept.
  (various places around the magazine)
• Advertising Slogans Will Replace Everyday Conversation

  Gray Flannel-Mouth Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Wally Wood
  4–6
• The Man With the Sprung Neck

  Don Martin Dept. Part I

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The Worst From MAD #7 — 1964 Annual
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  7–8
• The Price is All Right (TV satire)

  Lights, Camera, Auction Dept.

  Written by Larry Siegel / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The Worst From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  • Greasy MAD Stuff — 1963 (Paperback #15)
  9–12
• Painting By the Numbers

  Digitalent Dept.

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Greasy MAD Stuff — 1963 (Paperback #15)
  13–15
• The MAD Treasury of Unknown Poetry Volume II

  Verse of the People Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Joe Orlando

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • The Worst From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  • Greasy MAD Stuff — 1963 (Paperback #15)
  • The Ridiculously Expensive MAD — 1969
  16–17
• The Great Hotel Fire

  Don Martin Dept. Part II

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • More Trash From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  • Greasy MAD Stuff — 1963 (Paperback #15)
  • The Completely MAD Don Martin — 1974 Big Book
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  18
• Testing Civilians for Space Flight

  Solar Perplexus Dept.

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Wally Wood

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • A Golden Trashery of MAD — 1960
  • Greasy MAD Stuff — 1963 (Paperback #15)
  19–22
• Scenes We'd Like to See — Driving the Golden Spike

  Hollywood Dept.

  Written by Eugene St. Jean / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 10 collections

  • The Worst From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  • Greasy MAD Stuff — 1963 (Paperback #15)
  • The Ridiculously Expensive MAD — 1969
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • MAD About the Movies — 1998
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • MAD About the Movies — Director's Cut — 2008
  • The Best of the Worst! — Special Collector's Edition 2012
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  23 sample
• The MAD Guide to Handwriting Analysis

  Scrawl's Well That Reads Well Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The Worst From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  24–26
• TV Ads We'd Like to See — The Schleppe's Commercial

  Television Dept.

  Art by Joe Orlando

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MADvertising — 2005
  27
• MAD Looks at Adult Education

  Blackboard Bungle Dept.

  Written by Paul Laikin / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • A Golden Trashery of MAD — 1960
  • The Worst From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  28–31
• Hide-A-Beds and Other Kinds of "Hide-A-Things"

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Dave Berg's MAD Trash — 1977 Big Book
  32–35
• Madison Avenue Turns to History and Literature

  Prose for the Cons Dept.

  Written by Larry Siegel / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • More Trash From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  • Greasy MAD Stuff — 1963 (Paperback #15)
  36–39 sample
• Grandstand Football

  Way Off-Side Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • More Trash From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  • Greasy MAD Stuff — 1963 (Paperback #15)
  40–42
• Teenage Magazine

  Pomp-Adore Dept.

  Written by Larry Siegel / Art by Joe Orlando

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • A Golden Trashery of MAD — 1960
  • The Worst From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  • Greasy MAD Stuff — 1963 (Paperback #15)
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  43–47
• The Escaped Convict

  Don Martin Dept. Part III

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • The Worst From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  • The Completely MAD Don Martin — 1974 Big Book
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  48
• Ad for Son of MAD paperback

  Art by Wally Wood and Kelly Freas
  C3
• Back Cover — Paying for a Diamond is Forever

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Kelly Freas

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • A Golden Trashery of MAD — 1960
  • The Worst From MAD #4 — 1961 Annual
  • The Ridiculously Expensive MAD — 1969
  • MAD Special #1 — Fall 1970
  • MADvertising — 2005
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