MAD #225 — September 1981

Contents

• Ad for MAD Super Special — Winter 1981

  featuring Sergio Aragones' MAD Map of the USA
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• Contents Page
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• "Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, you'll be right!" — Alfred E. Neuman
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• Flopeye (movie satire)

  Strip-Wrecked Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #52 — Fall 1985
  • Mort Drucker's MAD Show-Stoppers — 1985
  • MAD Jackpot — 1989 (Paperback #80)
  • MAD Special #101 — January 1995
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Mort Drucker — 2012
  2–8
• One Blazing Hot Day on the Desert

  Don Martin Dept. Part I

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #54 — Spring 1986
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely Mad Don Martin — 2007
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• A MAD Look at Some Celebrities Diapers

  Inside Poop Dept.

  Written by Paul Peter Porges / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #55 — Summer 1986
  • MAD Jackpot — 1989 (Paperback #80)
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Number Two — 2001
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  10–11
• If They Can Put a Man on the Moon, Then Why Can't They...

  Luna-Ticked Off Dept.

  Written by John Ficarra / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #54 — Spring 1986
  • MAD Jackpot — 1989 (Paperback #80)
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Number Two — 2001
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  12–14 sample
• MAD's Airline President of the Year

  Plane Nonsense Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #55 — Summer 1986
  15–18
• MAD's Really Relevant Book of Lists

  Compiling It On Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Zaps the Human Race! — Frank Jacobs — 1984 Big Book
  • MAD Special #54 — Spring 1986
  • The Mad Cooler — 1988 (Paperback #78)
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Number Two — 2001
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  19–21
• Publically Prohibited Bad Habits of the Future

  Pest-Aside Dept.

  Written by Dennis Snee / Art by Jack Rickard

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #56 — Fall 1986
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Number Two — 2001
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  22–23
• Letters Dept.

  Notes

  • Subscriptions (industrial sewage drinker — Paul Coker, Jr. art), photo of the Dick Clark reading MAD, Ads for Alfred E. Neuman portraits, photo of Anthony Perkins stabbing MAD — sample
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• Letters Dept.

  Notes

  • photo of Cathy Gaines and Steve Mifsud wedding picture, Ad for MAD Horses Around Paperback
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• One Blazing Hot Day on Main Street

  Don Martin Dept. Part II

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #54 — Spring 1986
  • MAD Jackpot — 1989 (Paperback #80)
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely Mad Don Martin — 2007
  • This Is Your Brain On MAD — Special Collector's Edition 2015
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• MAD's Career-Oriented Mother Goose

  Re: Verse Psychology Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 7 collections

  • MAD Special #56 — Fall 1986
  • MAD Blasts — 1988 (Paperback #79)
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Number Two — 2001
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • Inside MAD — 2013
  • MAD Choice Cuts — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  20–22
• Spy vs. Spy — slingshot in hat

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Antonio Prohias

  Reprinted in 7 collections

  • MAD Special #52 — Fall 1985
  • MAD Blasts — 1988 (Paperback #79)
  • MAD About the Eighties — 1999
  • Spy Vs. Spy — The Complete Casebook — Antonio Prohias — 2001
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • Spy Vs. Spy — Omnibus — Antonio Prohias — 2011
  • Extremely Moronic MAD — 2012
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• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #54 — Spring 1986
  14-18
• William Shakespeare...Social Critic

  Something is Rotten Dept.

  Written by Henry Clark / UPI photos

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #56 — Fall 1986
  12–13
• One Blazing Hot Day on the Beach

  Don Martin Dept. Part I

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #54 — Spring 1986
  • MAD Jackpot — 1989 (Paperback #80)
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely Mad Don Martin — 2007
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• Real Life Madness

  The Other Side of the Con Dept.

  Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by Harry North, Esq.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Blasts — 1988 (Paperback #79)
  8–10 sample
• Assaulted State (movie satire)

  From "Soup" to "Nuts" Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #55 — Summer 1986
  • MAD About the Movies — 1998
  • MAD About the Movies — Director's Cut — 2008
  2–7 sample
• "With most movies today, the only thing left to the imagination is the plot!" — Alfred E. Neuman
• Contents Page
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• Fold-In — What ancient slow-moving creature is threatened with extinction?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #55 — Summer 1986
  • MAD Fold This Book — 1997
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Altered States

  Art by Jack Rickard
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