Mad #227 December 1981

• Cover Artist: Jack Rickard

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• Ad for Mad Super Special Spring 1982
  with a focus on sports (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• "Silence isn't always golden!
  Sometimes it's just plain yellow!" -- Alfred E. Neuman
• Letters (2-3)
• Ads for Mad Clobbers the Classics and The Eggs-Rated Mad Paperbacks, Alfred E. Neuman portraits,
  Subscriptions (dressed as a tree, waiting for logger -
  written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• Arbor Day (typical horror movie satire)
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Jack Davis art) (4-10)
• The Mad TV Coroner's Report
  (written by Stan Hart) (11-13)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (14-18)
• Your Mad Horoscope (written by John Ficarra) (19)
• Mad Careers for the Slow and Lazy
  (Paul Peter Porges) (20-21)
• How Many Mistakes Can You
  Find in This Picture? (Disco Club)
  (written by Chris Hart / George Woodbridge art) (22-23)
• Don Martin's Version of a Movie of Ecchcaliber
  (written by Larry Siegel) (24-28)
• The Mad Questionnaire For
  Uncovering America's "Truly Needy"
  (written by John Ficarra / Bob Clarke art) (29-30)
• A Mad Look at Teachers
  (written by Stan Hart / Bob Clarke art) (31-33)
• More Sub-Divisions for Public Places
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art) (34-35)
• You Can't Win!
  (written by Larry Siegel / Harry North, Esq. art) (36-39)
• Good Sounds / Bad Sounds
  (written by Stan Hart / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (40-41)
• Spy vs. Spy - boat ramp diverts
  bomb back to plane (Antonio Prohias) (42)
• Magnumb, P.U. (TV satire)
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Mort Drucker art) (43-48)
• Fold-In -- What new sex object has
  brought out our animal instincts? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- Dog Plays Dead at Dinner Table
  (Sergio Aragones)