MAD #283 — December 1988

"In the past, stocks split. Today, they just fall apart!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• 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
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes

  Notes

  • MAD Skateboard plug, reactions to repeat of 60 Minutes MAD interview, William M. Gaines receives VEEKO award, Ad for MAD Wrist Watches, and Ad for MAD Blasts Paperback
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Crock O'dull Dummee, Too (movie satire)

  Get Along Little Aussie Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  4–8
• The Free-Style Firing-Squad Fiasco

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  • MAD XL #26 — March 2004
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  9
• Same Words...Different Circumstances!

  Just a Phrase We're Going Through Dept.

  Idea by Christopher Allen / Written by John Prete / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #98 — Mid Summer 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  10–11
• More Famous Stories as Told by Famous People

  Like a Version Dept.

  Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  12–13
• A MAD Peek Behind the Scenes at a Comedy Club

  Performing Laugh Rites Dept.

  Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by Sam Viviano

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #102 — March 1995
  • MAD Art — 2002
  • MAD XL #24 — November 2003
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  14–15
• Spy vs. Spy — cymbal crash of springy manhole covers

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

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

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  16
• Politically Inspired Olympic Events

  Gold Meddling Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Bob Jones

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  • MAD Special #115 — September 1996
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  17–19
• What is a Supernerd?

  A Bad Case of the Twerpies Dept.

  Paul Peter Porges

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  20–21
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #109 — December 1995
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  22–26
• The Pesky Pecker Puzzler

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  27
• The Saga of AT&T

  Frank on a Roll Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Jack Davis / Thanks to Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  28–29
• A MAD Look at Fat

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonés — 2010
  30–32
• Rewriting the Constitution for Political Extremists

  Preamble-Dextrous Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Gerry Gersten

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #90 — November 1993
  33–35 sample
• Advertising Claims That Somehow Didn't Thrill Us

  An Embarrassment of Richard's Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #90 — November 1993
  36–37
• Twelve Reasons Why Being in Congress is Worth the Price

  Men at Perk Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  • MAD Special #115 — September 1996
  38–39
• Rambull III (movie satire)

  Afghanistan Hart Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  • MAD Classics #21 — April 2008
  40–44 sample
• The Exquisite Execution Experiment

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  45
• The MAD Flower Garden — A Spotter's Guide

  The Florist's Prime Evil Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.
  46–47
• Other McD.L.T. Type Ideas We'd Like to See From McDonalds

  Fast Food for Thought Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
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• Fold-In — What advancement is being hailed as a breakthrough in air pollution control?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — The Modern “Catch of the Day”

  Maple Communications, Inc photo

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD About the Eighties — 1999
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