MAD #136 — July 1970

"Marriage is like drugs to some people: they keep taking one dope after another!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for MAD Special #1 — featuring the MAD Voodoo Doll
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters Dept.

  Notes

  • Picture of Jon Voight reading MAD #134 / Ads for Subscriptions (lady in trailer — Paul Coker, Jr. art) / Paperbacks / Alfred E. Neuman portraits
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid (movie satire)

  Shooting From the "Hip" Dept.

  Written by Arnie Kogen / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #15 — Summer 1975
  • The Medicine MAD — 1977 (Paperback #44)
  • MAD Special #30 — Spring 1980
  • MAD Special #119 — March 1997
  • MAD Spoofs Movie Classics — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  4–10 sample
• If There Were Only Two Survivors of WWIII Left on Earth

  On That Ol' Doo-Dah Day Dept.

  Written by Lou Silverstone / Photos by Irving Schild
  11–12
• One Day in a Tenement

  Don Martin Dept. Part I

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #13 — Fall 1974
  • Hooked On MAD — 1976 (Paperback #42)
  • MAD Special #121 — June 1997
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely Mad Don Martin — 2007
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• MAD Condolence Cards for Life's Other Tragedies

  Postal Mortems Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #13 — Fall 1974
  • The Medicine MAD — 1977 (Paperback #44)
  14–15
• The Lighter Side of Sex

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #15 — Summer 1975
  • The Cuckoo MAD — 1976 (Paperback #43)
  • MAD Special #44 — Fall 1983
  • MAD Special #126 — January 1998
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Dave Berg — 2013
  16–20
• Spy vs. Spy — sliding door trap

  Joke and Dagger Dept. Part I

  Antonio Prohias

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #13 — Fall 1974
  • MAD Special #114 — July 1996
  • Spy Vs. Spy — The Complete Casebook — Antonio Prohias — 2001
  • Spy Vs. Spy — Omnibus — Antonio Prohias — 2011
  • MAD Presents Spy Vs. Spy — An Explosive Celebration — 2015
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• Feature By Feature Advertising

  Ad Infinite Items Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Photos by Irving Schild

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #14 — Winter 1974
  • The Medicine MAD — 1977 (Paperback #44)
  • MAD Special #40 — Fall 1982
  • MAD's Maddest Writer Dick DeBartolo presents Here's MAD in Your Eye — 1984 Big Book
  22–23
• A MAD Look at College

  Universi-Tease Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #15 — Summer 1975
  24–26
• The Problem

  Matter Over Mind Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 7 collections

  • MAD Special #15 — Summer 1975
  • The Cuckoo MAD — 1976 (Paperback #43)
  • MAD's Sergio Aragones On Parade — 1979 Big Book
  • MAD Special #68 — Fall 1989
  • MAD About the Seventies — 1996
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonés — 2010
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• Obituaries for Traditions, Pastimes and Other Dying-Out Landmarks of the American Way of Life

  Of Grave Concern Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Norman Mingo

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #14 — Winter 1974
  • Hooked On MAD — 1976 (Paperback #42)
  • MAD Special #104 — June 1995
  28–30
• MAD's Vice-President of the Year

  The Agnew and the Ecchstasy Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by John Cullen Murphy
  31–35
• More "So How Come...?"

  Double-Standard Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #15 — Summer 1975
  • Hooked On MAD — 1976 (Paperback #42)
  36–38
• The MAD Sex Education Primer

  Show and Tell Dept.

  Written by Sy Reit / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #14 — Winter 1974
  • The Medicine MAD — 1977 (Paperback #44)
  • MAD Special #44 — Fall 1983
  • MAD About the Seventies — 1996
  39–41
• Spy vs. Spy — prison break fake

  Joke and Dagger Dept. Part II

  Antonio Prohias

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • MAD's Big Book of Spy vs. Spy Capers and Other Surprises — 1978
  • MAD Special #66 — Spring 1989
  • MAD Special #73 — Winter 1990
  • Spy Vs. Spy — The Complete Casebook — Antonio Prohias — 2001
  • Spy Vs. Spy — Omnibus — Antonio Prohias — 2011
  • MAD Presents Spy Vs. Spy — An Explosive Celebration — 2015
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• Room 222ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz (TV satire)

  There's No School Like a Soul School Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Hooked On MAD — 1976 (Paperback #42)
  • MAD Special #127 — March 1998
  43–47 sample
• One Day in a Garage

  Don Martin Dept. Part II

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • MAD Special #15 — Summer 1975
  • MAD Special #100 — Late Fall 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Turd in a Series — 2003
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely Mad Don Martin — 2007
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Don Martin — 2014
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• Fold-In — What form of inflation are most Americans constantly fighting?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #13 — Fall 1974
  • MAD Fold This Book — 1997
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Scenes We'd Like to See — The Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Jack Rickard

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD's Greatest Writers — Frank Jacobs — 2015
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