Mad #51 December 1959

• Cover Artist: Kelly Freas
• Mad Logo: Harvey Kurtzman

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• Hames Underwear for Men and Boys (ad parody)
  (written by Larry Siegel / Kelly Freas art) (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• 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)
• New Singers for Old Songs
  **various obscure places around the magazine
• Letters (3)
• Advertising Slogans Will Replace Everyday Conversation
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Wally Wood art) (4-6)
• The Man With the Sprung Neck (Don Martin) (7-8)
• The Price is All Right (TV satire)
  (written by Larry Siegel / Mort Drucker art) (9-12)
• Painting By the Numbers
  (written by Al Jaffee / Bob Clarke art) (13-15)
• The Mad Treasury of Unknown Poetry Volume II
  (written by Tom Koch / Joe Orlando art) (16-17)
• The Great Hotel Fire (Don Martin) (18)
• Testing Civilians for Space Flight
  (written by Al Jaffee / Wally Wood art) (19-22)
• Scenes We'd Like to See - Driving the Golden Spike
  (written by Eugene St. Jean / George Woodbridge art) (23)
• The Mad Guide to Handwriting Analysis
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Bob Clarke art) (24-26)
• TV Ads We'd Like to See - The Schleppe's Commercial
  (Joe Orlando art) (27)
• Mad Looks at Adult Education
  (written by Paul Laikin / George Woodbridge art) (28-31)
• Hide-A-Beds and Other Kinds of "Hide-A-Things"
  (Dave Berg) (32-35)
• Madison Avenue Turns to History and Literature
  (written by Larry Siegel / Bob Clarke art) (36-39)
• Grandstand Football
  (written by Frank Jacobs / George Woodbridge art) (40-42)
• Teenage Magazine
  (written by Larry Siegel / Joe Orlando art) (43-47)
• The Escaped Convict (Don Martin) (48)
• Ad for Son of Mad paperback
  (Wally Wood and Kelly Freas art) (C3)
• Back Cover -- Paying for a Diamond is Forever
  (written by Al Jaffee / Kelly Freas art)