Mad #253 March 1985

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams
• Cover Writer: Al Jaffee

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• Ad for More Trash from Mad - Special Summer 1985 (C2)
  - featuring 8 shocking ridiculous full-color Mad mini-posters
• Contents Page (1)
• Letters (William Gaines image from Jack Davis) (2-3)
• Ads for A Mad Look at the 50's Paperback and Subscriptions
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• Roger Ebore and Gene Sissy review three films (4-12)
  (written by Arnie Kogen / Sam Viviano art) (movie satires)
  • Ghost-Dusters (Sam Viviano art)
  • Purple Acid Rain (Harry North, Esq. art)
  • The Karocky Kid (Angelo Torres art)
• The Trend Toward Rottenness in the Comic Strips /
  When All Comic Strip Characters Turn Rotten
  (written by Larry Siegel / Bob Clarke art) (13-15)
• Don (Duck) Edwing Looks at Funerals (16-19)
• The Mad Chain Letter (written by Frank Jacobs) (20)
• An Instant Guide to American Regional Types
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (21-23)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (24-28)
• Mad's Lurid Romantic Textbooks
  (written by Tom Koch / Harry North, Esq. art) (29-31)
• A Mad Look at Pets' Back Talk (Paul Peter Porges) (32-33)
• The Mad 1984 Quiz
  (written by Desmond Devlin / Irving Schild photo) (34-35)
• If You Walk Down a Dark Street
  (written by Frank Jacobs / George Woodbridge art) (36-37)
• Mad's Modern Believe It or Nuts!
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Bob Clarke art) (38)
• Exciting New Uses for Miracle Velcro
  (Al Jaffee / idea by T.J. Glenn) (39-41)
• Supergall (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Jack Davis art) (42-47)
• Spy vs. Spy - pull into gator's pool (logo) /
  shark in torpedo (Antonio Prohias) (48)
• Fold-In -- What new labor development gave this worker
  much more time to spend with his family? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- Upside-down Pyramid Construction
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / George Woodbridge art)