Mad #172 January 1975

• Cover Artist: Norman Mingo
• Cover Writer: Sergio Aragones

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• Yes, Virginia - Due to the high cost of living, there is no Santa Claus this year! (Jack Rickard art) (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• "The average man is a guy who spends his whole life trying to prove to everybody that he isn't!" -- Alfred E. Neuman
• Letters (photo of Dennis Weaver reading Mad)
  (Paul Coker, Jr. illustrates
  Barbara Nell King's Horrifying Cliché) (2)
• Subscription Ad (George Woodbridge art from #116)
  Haunted by The Ghost of Christmas Presents? (3)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The Great Gasbag (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Mort Drucker art) (4-10)
• Alfred's Poor Almanac
  (written by Frank Jacobs / John Putnam art) (11)
• Don Martin's Natural History Movies - Short Subject #14:
  Insect Masters of Camouflage and Illusion (12-13)
• If the World of Yesterday Faced the Conditions of Today
  (written by Frank Jacobs) (14-16)
• More Powerful than a Locomotive...
  (Sergio Aragones) (17-18)
• Picture Road Signs We'd Like to See (19-21)
  (written by Al Jaffee and Frank Jacobs / Bob Clarke art)
• A Downer is...
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (22-23)
• The Lighter Side of Staying Young
  (Dave Berg) (24-28)
• Don Martin's Natural History Movies -
  Short Subject #27: The Goono Aborigines (29)
• Commemoratives to President Nixon
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Bob Clarke art) (30-31)
• Mad Solutions to Big City
  Doggie-Do Problems (Al Jaffee) (32-36)
• Bluff that Mugger!
  (written by E. Nelson Bridwell / Bruce Day art) (37)
• Picture Road Signs for Everyday Situations
  (written by Paul Peter Porges / Jack Rickard art) (38-39)
• Don Martin's Natural History Movies -
  Short Subject #37: The Great Golden Eagle (40)
• The Six Million Dollars, Man! (TV satire)
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Angelo Torres art) (41-47)
• Ad for The Fourth Mad Declassified Papers
  on Spy vs. Spy by Prohias Paperback (48)
• Fold-In -- What simple pastime is fast becoming a luxury
  that many Americans can no longer afford? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- So Why Not Pardon Hitler?
  (Irving Schild photo)