MAD #200 — July 1978
"Living it up is like taking out insurance…the older you get, the more it costs you!" — Alfred E. Neuman
Contents
-
Ad for MAD Super Special Number 25Don Martin "Rock Music" PostersC2
-
Contents Page1
-
Letters Dept.
Notes
- Alfred E. Neuman portraits / A MAD Look at The Future Paperback / Subscriptions (church bell rope noose — written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
2–3 -
(various places around the magazine) summary
-
Clod Encounters of the Absurd Kind (movie satire)Boffo UFO Dept.Written by Stan Hart / Art by Mort Drucker4–10 sample
-
The Rime of the Modern SkateboarderFrom Fad to Verse Dept.(with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)Written by Tom Koch / Art by Don Martin11–14 sample
-
You Can Never Escape From StressThat Old Familiar Strain Dept.Written by Tom Koch / Art by Jack Davis
Reprinted in 1 collection
15–17 -
The Lighter Side of FadsBerg's-Eye View Dept.
Reprinted in 2 collections
18–22 -
Graduation Class Pictures as Staged by Some of the World's Best-Known Picture-MakersAwful Assembly Dept.Written by Paul Peter Porges / Art by Harry North, Esq.
Reprinted in 2 collections
23–25 sample -
When Those "Old Line" Comic Strips Follow the New Wave, Cerebral "Doonesbury" TrendTried and Trudeau Dept.Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Jack Rickard
Reprinted in 2 collections
26–28 -
MAD's College Concert Comic of the YearThe Dirty End of the Schtick Dept.Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by George Woodbridge
Reprinted in 2 collections
29–32 -
Spy vs. Spy — elevating torpedoJoke and Dagger Dept.33
-
The MAD Book of OddsYou Bet Your Life Dept.Written by Stan Hart / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.
Reprinted in 3 collections
34–35 -
36–39
-
A MAD Look at the Moment Before the DisasterZings to Come Dept.
Reprinted in 9 collections
40–42 sample -
The Dummy & Mareek Show (TV satire)Sweetness Counts Dept.Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Angelo Torres43–47
-
Before the Rock ConcertSocket to 'Em Dept.
Reprinted in 4 collections
48 sample -
Fold-In — What volatile ingredients now being formulated are sure to cause future catastrophes?
Reprinted in 3 collections
C3 -
Back Cover — More Scenes We'd Like to See — The Frog PrinceWritten by Al Jaffee / Art by Don Martin
Reprinted in 2 collections
C4