Mad #237 March 1983

• Cover Writer: Dick DeBartolo

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• Ad for Mad Super Special Summer 1983
  featuring horror, sci-fi, and other weird things (C2)
• Contents Page - Extremely Important Message from the Editors - Instructions on How to Read This Issue (1)
• Letters (newspaper clippings sent in by readers) (2-3)
• Ad for The Mad Jock Book Paperback,
  Alfred E. Neuman portraits,
  Subscriptions (church bell rope noose -
  written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Paltry Guise (movie satire)
  (written by Arnie Kogen / Jack Davis art) (4-10)
• One Fine Day in Fairbanks Alaska
  (written by Sergio Aragones / Don Martin art) (11)
• If Famous Poets Had to Make a Living Today
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Jack Rickard art) (12-15)
• Further Additions to Table of Mad's Little-Known
  and Very Useless Weights, Measures & Distances
  (written by John Ficarra / Bob Clarke art) (16-17)
• The 1982 Mad Yearbook
  (written by Lou Silverstone / UPI photos) (18-20)
• How to Read an Airline Menu
  (written by Dick DeBartolo) (21)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (22-26)
• One Fine Day in Chicago Illinois
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art) (27)
• If They Passed Other "Truth in...Laws"
  (written by Stan Hart / Harry North, Esq. art) (28-31)
• Little Known and Rarely Diagnosed
  Mad Ailments Contracted at Airports
  (Don (Duck) Edwing) (32-33)
• Spy vs. Spy -
  spy sculpture becomes toilet (Antonio Prohias) (34)
• Mad's School Teacher of the Year
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (35-38)
• One Fine Day in Rochester New York (Don Martin) (39)
• Some Simple Laws That Make Sense Out of Soap Operas
  (written by Mark Dressler / Angelo Torres art) (40-42)
• A Foreigner's Travel Guide to the United States
  (written by Larry Siegel / George Woodbridge art) (43-48)
• Fold-In -- How will our current military
  budget result in bloodshed? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- Fortune Hunters Find Atomic Waste
  (written by Sergio Aragones / Jack Davis art)