Mad #197 March 1978

• Cover Artist: Jack Rickard

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• Ad for Mad Special Number 24 featuring the sixth The Nostalgic Mad reprint of assorted Mad comic articles (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• Letters (2-3)
• Ads for Mad Stew Paperback, Alfred E. Neuman portraits,
  Subscriptions (dressed as a banana in an ape cage -
  written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The White House Follies of 1977
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Mort Drucker art) (4-10)
• One Morning in an Old English Forest (Don Martin) (11)
• Mad's "Do-It-Yourself" Job Application Letter
  (written by Tom Koch) (12-13)
• A Mad Look at "Star Wars"
  (Sergio Aragones) (14-16)
• Some Minor Medical Research Foundations' Collection Drives (written by Dennis Snee / Bob Clarke art) (17-19)
• Mad Close-Ups (20-21)
  (written by Paul Peter Porges / Harry North, Esq. art)
• The Lighter Side of Air (Dave Berg) (22-26)
• One Afternoon in a New American Home (Don Martin) (27)
• Instructions for Things that Need Instructions
  (written by Tom Koch / Bob Clarke art) (28-30)
• Mad Goes to a Preview of an "In Search of..." Movie (31-36)
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Jack Davis art)
• One Evening in a Hollywood TV Studio (Don Martin) (37)
• Staying In Shape (Dean Norman) (38-39)
• Mad's "Romance-Love-Relationship" Book
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (40-42)
• Little House Oh, So Dreary (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art) (43-48)
• Fold-In --
  What infectious foreign invasion is spreading in epidemic proportions among Americans lately? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- Still More Scenes We'd Like to See - Rapunzel
  (Don Martin)