Mad #278 April 1988

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams
• Cover Writer: Frank Jacobs
• Cover Idea: Billy Doherty

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• Ad for Subscriptions featuring Mort Drucker's Mad Show-Stoppers and Mad's Maddest Writer Dick DeBartolo Presents Here's Mad in Your Eye Big Book Bonuses (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• Ad for The Spare Mad Paperback
• Letters (photo of Robert DeNiro and son Raphael visiting
  Nick Meglin, John Ficarra, Leonard Brenner, Sara Fowler, Charlie Kadau) (photo of cast of Head of the Class with ten Mad #275s) (60 Minutes interview reactions) (2-3)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• Dorky Dancing (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Mort Drucker art) (4-8)
• The Terrifying Terminal Tragedy (Don (Duck) Edwing) (9)
• Still More Celebrity Silhouettes
  (written by Rurik Tyler / Bob Clarke art) (10-11)
• Quick Recoveries for
  Embarrassing Situations (Al Jaffee) (12-13)
• A Mad Look at School (Sergio Aragones) (14-15)
• The Stupefying Suicide Situation (Don (Duck) Edwing) (16)
• The Mad Nasty File - (Vol Two)
  (written by Tom Koch / Gerry Gersten art) (17-19)
• Dangerous Sports For the Very Daring and the Super Stupid
  (Paul Peter Porges) (20-21)
• Secret Supermarket Rules
  (written by Charlie Kadau / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (22-23)
• The Official Mad Pardon of Ronald Reagan
  (written by Al Jaffee / Jack Davis art) (24-25)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (26-30)
• The Disastrous Desert Drama (Don (Duck) Edwing) (31)
• Celebrity Reading Lists
  (written by Tom Koch / Sam Viviano art) (32-33)
• Mad's Instant Guide to Zodiac Types
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Harry North, Esq. art) (34-37)
• Spy vs. Spy - fishing line releases shark
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art) (38)
• Stinkout (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art) (39-44)
• Disclaimers for TV Commercials
  That Don't Have Disclaimers
  (written by Frank Jacobs / George Woodbridge art) (45-47)
• The Macabre Morticians' Melodrama
  (Don (Duck) Edwing) (48)
• Fold-In -- What is fast becoming the number one
  cause of drinking among today's youth? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- Sports Titillated Magazine
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola)
  (Irving Schild photo)