Mad #280 July 1988

• Cover Artist: Mort Drucker

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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)
• Letters (2-3)
• Ad for Mad's Sheer Torture by Don (Duck) Edwing Paperback
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• New Cigarette Warning Labels You May Have Missed
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola)
  (idea by Annie Gaines / Irving Schild photo) (4-5)
• A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a High School Prom
  (written by Charlie Kadau & Joe Raiola)
  (Sergio Aragones art) (6-7)
• Drama on Page 8 -
  overly engineered rimshot (John Caldwell) (8)
• Three Morons and a Baby (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Angelo Torres art) (9-12)
• Broadcast Snooze (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Angelo Torres art) (12-15)
• Spy vs. Spy - flying carpet bed of nails balloon popper
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art) (16)
• Don (Duck) Edwing Rushes
  into the Emergency Room (17-19)
• Tricks of the Trade in Local TV News
  (written by Tom Koch / George Woodbridge art) (20-21)
• Mad's Post-Nuclear Publications
  (written by Barry Liebmann / Bob Clarke art) (22-23)
• Gary Hart Land (24-25)
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Al Jaffee art)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (26-30)
• Mad's Comprehensive Modern-Day
  Disaster, Hazard & Problem Insurance
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (31-33)
• Schwarzenegger
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Mort Drucker art) (34)
  (based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's
  The Song of Hiawatha)
• When Other Comic Strips
  Start Using the "Far Side" Formula
  (written by Charlie Kadau / Bob Clarke art) (35-37)
• Mad's Plan For Improving Movie Theatres
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Harry North, Esq. art) (38-39)
• Talk About Cheap! (Paul Peter Porges) (40-41)
• Drama on Page 42 -
  defendant's twin brother
  shares arm (John Caldwell) (42)
• Beauty is the Beast (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Jack Davis art) (43-47)
• "A Mad Good Luck Chain Letter"
  (written by Frank Jacobs) (48)
• Fold-In -- What loathsome form of useless
  vegetation is cropping up all over the land? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover --
  Alfred E. Neuman For President - Vote Mad in '88
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola)
  (Norman Mingo art from #153)