Mad #97 September 1965

• Cover Artist: Norman Mingo
• Cover Writer: Sergio Aragones
• Mad Logo: Don Martin

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• Ad for Mad's Don Martin Drops 13 Stories! paperback (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• Letters (photos of university 43-Man Squamish teams) (2-3)
• Ads for Subscriptions - "Are you bugged by the little monsters who short out the supply of Mad at the newsstands?" (sculpture by Giuseppe Baggi), Alfred E. Neuman portraits
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• Being Rich is Better than a Warm Puppy (book parody)
  (Al Jaffee) (4-7)
• A Frightful Incident (Don Martin) (8)
• Cheyenne Awful (movie satire)
  (written by Larry Siegel / Mort Drucker art) (9-13)
• A Mad Look at Garbagemen (Sergio Aragones) (14-17)
• Spy Vs. Spy - concrete cliff drive /
  palm tree trap (Antonio Prohias) (18)
• The Walt Cronkite Show
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Jack Rickard art) (19-21)
• In the Desert (Don Martin) (22)
• Load & Crash - The High Insurance Risk's Magazine
  (written by Tom Koch / George Woodbridge art) (23-28)
• What They Say and What it Really Means
  (written by Ronald Axe and Sol Weinstein)
  (Paul Coker, Jr. art) (29-31)
• Spy Vs. Spy - power lines cross bed /
  safe back ejection (Antonio Prohias) (32)
• Mad Interviews a "John Birch Society" Policeman (33-36)
  (written by Ronald Axe and Sol Weinstein / Joe Orlando art)
• Mad's Modern Believe It or Nuts!
  (written by Arnie Kogen / Bob Clarke art) (37)
• The Lighter Side of Employees (Dave Berg) (38-41)
• Spy Vs. Spy Vs. Spy - oppositional bowling / castle
  rammers meet airplane propeller (Antonio Prohias) (42)
• The Rooks (TV satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Mort Drucker art) (43-47)
• In an Alley (Don Martin) (48)
• Fold-In -- What Comes After Pop Art and Op Art?
  (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- The Day they Shot the
  "Ten-Foot-Tall Washing Machine" Commercial
  in an 8-Foot High Basement (Irving Schild photo)