Mad #193 September 1977

• Cover Artist: Jack Rickard

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• Ad for Subscriptions - Why Kill Yourself?
  (last day of school trampling - Angelo Torres art) (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• "Summer is the time of year when there's not much on TV… or on the girls at the beach!" -- Alfred E. Neuman
• Letters (Bob Clarke draws
  himself held hostage at Mad) (2-3)
• Ads for A. E. Neuman portraits, A Mad Scramble Paperback
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• A Star's a Bomb (movie satire)
  (written by Larry Siegel / Mort Drucker art) (4-10)
• One Monday Afternoon in a Downtown Jewelry Store
  (Don Martin) (11)
• Mad Products With Paired Names
  That Tell What It's Supposed to Do
  (written by Al Jaffee / Bob Clarke art) (12-13)
• Welcome to Mad Magazine's Reality World (amusement park) (written by Larry Siegel / Al Jaffee art) (14-19)
  (idea by Marc Bilgrey)
• A Mad Look at Movie Making (Sergio Aragones) (20-23)
• Famous People's Telephone Answering Machine Messages
  (written by Dick DeBartolo) (24-25)
• One Wednesday Evening in a Restaurant Men's Room
  (Don Martin) (26)
• More American Jokes They're Telling in Poland
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (27-29)
• The Mad Travel Agency's Specialized
  Tours for You and Your Neurosis -
  The Hypochondriac's Seven Day Tour of Europe
  (written by Stan Hart / Harry North, Esq. art) (30-31)
• The Lighter Side of Afternoons (Dave Berg) (32-36)
• When Members of Our Armed Forces Join a Union (37-38)
  (written by Lou Silverstone / George Woodbridge art)
• Casey at the Talks
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Jack Davis art)
  (based on the Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem) (39-41)
• Spy vs. Spy - spy inside tree (Antonio Prohias) (42)
• Churlie's Angles (TV satire)
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Angelo Torres art) (43-47)
• Late One Friday Night on an Uptown Street Corner
  (Don Martin) (48)
• Fold-In -- Where are some of the world's
  greatest oil deposits? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover --
  More Scenes We'd Like to See - The Frog Prince
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art)