MAD #270 — April 1987

"Why is it that things always look greener in the other guy's wallet?" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Cast of The Golden Girls — Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, Betty White — hold MAD #263. Ads for MAD's Spy vs. Spy Board Game, The Wet and Wisdom of MAD Paperback
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• Intro page for movie satires

  Art by Mort Drucker
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• Jumbled Joke Flash (movie satire)

  Raking Whoopi Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #87 — May 1993
  • MAD Special #133 — December 1998
  5–7
• The Color of Monotony (movie satire)

  Cruising For a New-man Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #87 — May 1993
  8–9
• Peggy Got Stewed and Married (movie satire)

  Turner Back the Hands of Time Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #87 — May 1993
  10–12
• One Fine Morning on East 69th Street

  Don Martin Dept. Part I

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Don Martin

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Don Martin — 2014
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• MAD's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Rock Concert Newspaper Story

  Reported in Front of a Live Audience Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  14–15
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #87 — May 1993
  16–20
• More Badly-Needed Warning Labels for Rock Albums

  Disc-claimers Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #112 — April 1996
  21–23
• A MAD Look at People Even Lonelier Than The Maytag Repairman

  Fickle Single of Fate Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #89 — September 1993
  24–25
• MAD's Record Book For Televised Sports — Vol. I

  Stat's Entertainment Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #87 — May 1993
  26–27
• Other Dangers of Smoking

  Pains in the Ash Dept.

  Paul Peter Porges

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #87 — May 1993
  • MAD XL #34 — July 2005
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  28–29
• Spy vs. Spy — car becomes tank, bike becomes cannon

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #89 — September 1993
  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
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• Banana Republic Dictator of the Year

  Military Coup-Coos Dept.

  Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder art / Written by Lou Silverstone

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #86 — March 1993
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  31–34
• One Fine Morning in the Maternity Ward

  Don Martin Dept. Part II

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #115 — September 1996
  • MAD About Dad — 2004
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
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• State of the Art is...

  Tech-no-logic Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  • MAD Color Classics #9 — April 2004
  36–37
• A MAD Look at Moving

  Sergio Aragones Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #84 — November 1992
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Gushing Fourth Edition — 2004
  38–39
• Perfectly Strange (TV satire)

  Immigrating on Our Nerves Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #89 — September 1993
  40–44
• Future Phone Gimmicks We Expect to See

  The Shape of Rings to Come Dept.

  Art by Al Jaffee / Written by Dick DeBartolo and Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  45–47
• Living on the Edge

  Up, Up and Oy Vey Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Don (Duck) Edwing and Harry North, Esq.

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #89 — September 1993
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
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• MAD's Realistic State Lottery Scratch-Off Games

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Bob Clarke
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• Back Cover — Fold-In — What's the hottest number in merchandising today?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD About the Eighties — 1999
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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