MAD #177 — September 1975

"People who borrow will take anything — but a hint!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• More Scenes We'd Like to See — The Frog Prince

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Don Martin

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #29 — Winter 1979
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Don Martin — 2014
  • MAD Special #44 — Fall 1983
  • MAD #46 — December 2025
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters Dept.

  Notes

  • Jack Davis art — Coach Hades heads to Midwestern U., Ads for Alfred E. Neuman portraits; Subscriptions (moneybags walks through Central Park — written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.); MAD's Don Martin Steps Further Out and Steaming MAD Paperbacks
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• The Towering Sterno (movie satire)

  Plot-Boiler Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • MAD Special #28 — Fall 1979
  • MAD's Maddest Writer Dick DeBartolo presents Here's MAD in Your Eye — 1984 Big Book
  • MAD Special #46 — Spring 1984
  • MAD About the Movies — 1998
  • MAD XL #4 — July 2000
  • MAD About the Movies — Director's Cut — 2008
  4–11
• A Collection of MAD X-RAYvings

  X-posed Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #29 — Winter 1979
  • The Eggs-Rated MAD — 1981 (Paperback #58)
  • MAD XL #20 — March 2003
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  12–13 sample
• One Sunday Morning in the Park

  Don Martin Dept. Part I

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #29 — Winter 1979
  • The Eggs-Rated MAD — 1981 (Paperback #58)
  • MAD Kids #5 — December 2006
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Don Martin — 2014
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• Young Sports Illustrated Magazine

  Minor Disaster Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #31 — Summer 1980
  15–19
• A MAD Look at Super Heroes

  Comic Shnooks Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 8 collections

  • MAD Special #28 — Fall 1979
  • MAD Special #36 — Fall 1981
  • A MAD Carnival — 1982 (Paperback #59)
  • Completely MAD — 1991 (excerpt)
  • MAD Special #96 — Early Spring 1994
  • MAD About Super Heroes — 2002
  • MAD Kids #4 — August 2006 (excerpt)
  • Disturbingly Awful MAD — 2013 (excerpt)
  20–23 sample
• How Many Mistakes Can You Find in this Picture?

  Err Apparent Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #31 — Summer 1980
  • MAD Special #103 — April 1995
  24–25
• The Lighter Side of Summer Hazards

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #29 — Winter 1979
  • MAD Horses Around — 1981 (Paperback #57)
  26–30
• One Beautiful Evening Last May

  Don Martin Dept. Part II

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 8 collections

  • MAD Special #31 — Summer 1980
  • A MAD Carnival — 1982 (Paperback #59)
  • MAD Special #44 — Fall 1983
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Gushing Fourth Edition — 2004
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Don Martin — 2014
  • MAD #36 — April 2024
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 8 — Mar/Apr 2024
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• It Ain't Fair When...

  Sour Gripes Dept.

  Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by Jack Rickard

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #31 — Summer 1980
  • MAD Horses Around — 1981 (Paperback #57)
  32–33 sample
• MAD Devices Designed to Solve Our Smoker vs. Non-Smoker Problems

  Where There's Smoke, There's Ire Dept.

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #28 — Fall 1979
  • A MAD Carnival — 1982 (Paperback #59)
  34–39 sample
• Footnotes* to Folklore

  Shoe Biz Dept.

  Written by Paul Peter Porges / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Horses Around — 1981 (Paperback #57)
  40–41
• Spy vs. Spy — bag grabber pulled into wall

  Joke & Dagger Dept.

  Antonio Prohias

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • MAD Special #31 — Summer 1980
  • A MAD Carnival — 1982 (Paperback #59)
  • MAD Special #108 — November 1995
  • 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
  • MAD Hodgepodge of Humor — Vol. 3 — December 2025
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• Cheeko and the Ham (TV satire)

  Impairing the Morale of a Minority Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Angelo Torres
  43–47 sample
• The Great Zucchini

  Don Martin Dept. Part III

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Gushing Fourth Edition — 2004
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
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• Fold-In — What special items do foreign shoppers find easily obtainable in the U.S.?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #47 — Summer 1984
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — The Modern-Day Carpetbaggers

  Idea by Frank Jacobs / Photo by Irving Schild

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #29 — Winter 1979
  • MAD About the Seventies — 1996
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