Mad #239 June 1983

• Cover Artist: Jack Rickard
• Cover Writer: Sergio Aragones

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• Ad for Mad Super Special Fall 1983 featuring
  Sex, Love, and other things your parents are against (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• Letters (2-3)
• Ad for Sergio Aragones' Mad Menagerie Paperback,
  Alfred E. Neuman portraits,
  Subscriptions - Why Kill Yourself? -
  barrel-jump neck-chopper (Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• Simple & Simple (TV satire) (Mort Drucker art)
  (written by Lou Silverstone and Dick DeBartolo) (4-10)
• One Prehistoric Morning While Inventing (Don Martin) (11)
• Places to Hide the M-X Missiles
  Where They Will Never Be Found
  (written by Paul Laikin / George Woodbridge art) (12-13)
• Pages from Celebrities Calendars
  (written by Larry Siegel) (14-15)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (16-20)
• This is a Test! - of the Emergency Publishing System (21)
  (written by John Ficarra) (interrupts Don Martin's One Fine Afternoon at the Dentist - was actually reprinted from #230)
• A Mad Look at Big-Time TV (Paul Peter Porges) (22-24)
• Mad's "Defense Contractor" of the Year
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Al Jaffee art) (25-28)
• Long Distance Runs of the Future
  (written by Dennis Snee / Jack Rickard art) (29-31)
• One Medieval Afternoon While Falconing
  (Don Martin) (32)
• More Parental Non-Sequiturs
  (written by Stan Hart / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (33-35)
• Personalized License Plates For
  Fictional and Historical Characters
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Bob Clarke art) (36-37)
• Little-Known and Rarely Diagnosed Mad Ailments
  Contracted at Supermarkets (Don (Duck) Edwing) (38-39)
• Spy vs. Spy - fan kite bomb (logo) /
  cannon magnet helmet lifter (Antonio Prohias) (40)
• The Verdiccch (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Angelo Torres art) (41-47)
• One Scary Night While
  Chasing a Monster (Don Martin) (48)
• Fold-In -- Where are public executions sometimes
  performed to entertain an audience? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- You Found Out! (the truth)
  (written by Billy Doherty / Irving Schild photo)