Mad #259 December 1985

• Cover Artists: Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

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• Ad for Subscriptions (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• Letters (TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes
  features animations with art by Sergio Aragones) (2-3)
• Ads for Son of Mad Sucks Paperback, Alfred E. Neuman portraits, Mort Drucker's Mad Show-Stoppers big book
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Dumbo - More Blood Part II (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art) (4-8)
• One Disastrous Day on the Atlantic
  (written by Al Jaffee / Don Martin art) (9)
• Superior Girl (Madonna song parody)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Al Jaffee art) (10-11)
• NASA's Proposed Questionnaire for Civilian
  Space Shuttle Passengers (written by John Ficarra) (12-13)
• A Mad Look at Bugs (Sergio Aragones) (14-16)
• Some Straight Talk About Selling Cigarettes to a Hostile Public - R. J. Riddles (written by Billy Doherty) (17)
• Cabbage Patch Products for People Who Hate Cabbage
  Patch Products (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola)
  (George Woodbridge art) (18-19)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (20-24)
• One Dark Day in Prison
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Don Martin art) (25)
• Gigglin's Island (TV rerun satire)
  (written by Larry Siegel / Sam Viviano art) (26-27)
• How to End a Date Painlessly (Paul Peter Porges) (28-29)
• Bad Habit Enders (Al Jaffee) (30-33)
• TV God Magazine
  (written by Larry Siegel / Mort Drucker art) (34-35)
• 14 Reasons Why You'll Miss Seeing Halley's Comet
  (written by Tom Koch / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (36-38)
• Nut Court (TV satire)
  (written by Larry Siegel / Angelo Torres art) (39-42)
• One Depressing Day in the Dungeon
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art) (43)
• Mad's Snappy Comments on Stupid
  Government Policies and Abuses
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Bob Clarke art) (44-45)
• Mad Double Features (Tom Hachtman) (46-48)
• Fold-In -- What biological force threatens to
  destroy an international institution? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- The Alfred E. Neumaneuver -
  First Aid for the Restaurant Choking Victim
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Bob Clarke art)