MAD #99 — December 1965

"When it comes to absorbing information, some people are like blotters: they soak it all in, but they get it all backwards!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for It's a World, World, World, World Mad paperback
  C2
• Contents Page
  1
• Letters Dept.

  Notes

  • Ads for Subscriptions — "Are you bugged by the little monsters who clip every copy from the newsstands?" (sculpture by Giuseppe Baggi), Aurora A.E. Neuman Model Kit, Alfred E. Neuman portraits, Christmas Grab Bag with MAD Follies #3, paperbacks
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• When Politicians Do TV Commercials

  Paid Politico Announcements Dept.

  Written by Ronald Axe and Sol Weinstein / Art by Jack Rickard

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Follies #5 — 1967 Annual
  4–7 sample
• Don Martin Proudly Presents Three Hairy Stories —
  At the Barbershop / In a Home / In Another Home

  Don Martin Dept.

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Follies #5 — 1967 Annual
  • The Completely MAD Don Martin — 1974 Big Book
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  8–9 sample
• MAD's Snappy Answers to Those Old Clichés

  Put Your Funny Where Your Mouth Is Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Follies #5 — 1967 Annual
  • MAD XL #15 — June 2002
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  10–12
• The Virginiaham (TV satire)

  How the Western Was Lost Dept.

  Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by Mort Drucker
  13–17
• Boxing Foto-Plays

  Punch Lines Dept.

  Written by Arnie Kogen / UPI and World Wide photos
  18–20
• MAD Interviews the Greeting Card Manufacturer of the Year

  Card Shark Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Joe Orlando

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Follies #5 — 1967 Annual
  • Polyunsaturated MAD — 1971 (Paperback #31)
  21–24
• Spy vs. Spy — tunnel feet frogs / guard dogs

  Joke & Dagger Dept. Part I

  Antonio Prohias

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Follies #5 — 1967 Annual
  • MAD's Big Book of Spy vs. Spy Capers and Other Surprises — 1978
  • MAD Special #108 — November 1995
  • Spy Vs. Spy — The Complete Casebook — Antonio Prohias — 2001
  • Spy Vs. Spy — Omnibus — Antonio Prohias — 2011
  25
• Let's Humanize Those Automated Machines

  Sweet Torque Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD #41 — February 2025
  26–27
• The Lighter Side of Moving

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Completely MAD — 1991 (excerpt)
  28–31
• A Celebrity's Wallet — Soupy Sales

  Soup's On! Dept.

  Written by Arnie Kogen / Art by Bob Clarke
  32–33
• Spy vs. Spy — cake crash / rodeo rhinos

  Joke & Dagger Dept. Part II

  Antonio Prohias

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Follies #5 — 1967 Annual
  • MAD's Big Book of Spy vs. Spy Capers and Other Surprises — 1978
  • MAD Special #108 — November 1995
  • Spy Vs. Spy — The Complete Casebook — Antonio Prohias — 2001
  • Spy Vs. Spy — Omnibus — Antonio Prohias — 2011
  34
• A MAD Guide to the Wildlife of Our American Highways

  Asphalt Jungle-Animals Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • More Trash From MAD #10 — 1967 Annual
  35–37
• Horror Movie Scenes We'd Like to See

  Our Creature Presentation Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 11 collections

  • MAD Follies #5 — 1967 Annual
  • MAD Special #43 — Summer 1983
  • MAD Trick-or-Treat Reading — 1987 (excerpt)
  • MAD About the Sixties — 1995
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • Horrifyingly MAD — 2011
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • MAD #542 — December 2016 (MAD Vault)
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  • MAD #16 — December 2020
  38–39 sample
• Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy — swinging spies / amusement ride

  Joke & Dagger Dept. Part III

  Antonio Prohias

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD's Big Book of Spy vs. Spy Capers and Other Surprises — 1978
  • Spy Vs. Spy — The Complete Casebook — Antonio Prohias — 2001
  • Spy Vs. Spy — Omnibus — Antonio Prohias — 2011
  • MAD #36 — April 2024
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 8 — Mar/Apr 2024
  40
• The Rime of the Modern Surfer

  Foam Poem Dept.

  (with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Don Martin

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • More Trash From MAD #10 — 1967 Annual
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  41–44
• Football "In Depth" (TV satire)

  The Play By-Play's the Thing Dept.

  Written by Ronald Axe and Sol Weinstein / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Follies #5 — 1967 Annual
  • Polyunsaturated MAD — 1971 (Paperback #31)
  • MAD Special #34 — Spring 1981
  45–48
• Fold-In — What Wild Frenzy Will Future College Students Face?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
  C3
• Back Cover — The Day They Forgot to Put the Top Down for the Hertz Commercial

  Photo by Irving Schild

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • More Trash From MAD #11 — 1968 Annual
  • The Ridiculously Expensive MAD — 1969
  • MAD About the Sixties — 1995
  • MAD Special #127 — March 1998
  • MADvertising — 2005
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