Mad #272 July 1987

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams

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• Ad for Subscriptions featuring
  The Completely Mad Don Martin Bonus (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• "It's astonishing how politicians never say anything, yet always insist they're being misquoted!" -- Alfred E. Neuman
• Letters (photos of Don Johnson with a Mad) (2)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Best of the Millenium (1000 A.D. - 2000 A.D.) Reader's Poll
  (written by Mike Snider) (3)
• ARFul (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art) (4-9)
• A Mad Look at Fast Food (Sergio Aragones) (10-11)
• Mad's Alibis for All Occasions
  (written by Tom Koch / Jack Davis art) (12-13)
• One Fine Day in North Calamari
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art) (14)
• The Flim Flam Film Man -
  Magazine for Videocassette Rental Store Owners
  (written by Stan Hart / George Woodbridge art) (15-18)
• Spy vs. Spy - tennis net bombs
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art) (19)
• More Celebrity Silhouettes
  (written by Rurik Tyler / Bob Clarke art) (20-21)
• Forget Smart (TV rerun satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art) (22-23)
• Bush (with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Gerry Gersten art) (24-25)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (26-30)
• When American TV Programs are Shown in Russia
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Angelo Torres art) (31-33)
• A Mad Guide to Show-Biz Success
  (written by Mike Snider / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (34-35)
• Rock Groups on the Way Up
  (written by Christopher Allen) (36-37)
• Sports Activities for the Hyperactive
  (Paul Peter Porges) (38-39)
• Why the U.S. Government Really Spends So Much
  (written by Tom Koch / George Woodbridge art) (40-42)
• One Fine Day in the South Bronx
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art) (43)
• Mad Visits an Organ Transplant Hospital
  (Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder art)
  (written by Lou Silverstone) (44-47)
• It's a Crummy Job... "But Somebody's Gotta Do It!"
  (written by John Ellis Sech / Al Jaffee art) (48)
• Fold-In -- Who conducted the most exhaustive
  Washington probe recently? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover --
  Witless Windbag Wrestler's Federation Magazine
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola)
  (Irving Schild photo)