Mad #283 December 1988

• Cover Artist: James Warhola

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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)
• "In the past, stocks split.
  Today, they just fall apart!" -- Alfred E. Neuman
• Ad for Mad Blasts Paperback
• Letters (Mad Skateboard plug)
  (reactions to repeat of 60 Minutes Mad interview)
  (William M. Gaines receives VEEKO award) (2-3)
• Ad for Mad Wrist Watches
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Crock O'dull Dummee, Too (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art) (4-8)
• The Free-Style Firing-Squad Fiasco
  (Don (Duck) Edwing) (9)
• Same Words...Different Circumstances!
  (Paul Coker, Jr. art / idea by Christopher Allen)
  (written by John Prete) (10-11)
• More Famous Stories as Told by Famous People
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Bob Clarke art) (12-13)
• A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a Comedy Club (14-15)
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Sam Viviano art)
• Spy vs. Spy - cymbal crash of springy manhole covers
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art) (16)
• Politically Inspired Olympic Events
  (written by Mike Snider / Bob Jones art) (17-19)
• What is a Supernerd? (Paul Peter Porges) (20-21)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (22-26)
• The Pesky Pecker Puzzler (Don (Duck) Edwing) (27)
• The Saga of AT&T (thanks to Edgar Allen Poe's Annabel Lee) (written by Frank Jacobs / Jack Davis art) (28-29)
• A Mad Look at Fat (Sergio Aragones) (30-32)
• Rewriting the Constitution for Political Extremists
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Gerry Gersten art) (33-35)
• Advertising Claims That Somehow Didn't Thrill Us
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Bob Clarke art) (36-37)
• Twelve Reasons Why Being in Congress is Worth the Price
  (written by Tom Koch / George Woodbridge art) (38-39)
• Rambull III (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Angelo Torres art) (40-44)
• The Exquisite Execution Experiment
  (Don (Duck) Edwing) (45)
• The Mad Flower Garden - A Spotter's Guide
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (46-47)
• Other McD.L.T. Type Ideas We'd Like to See From McDonalds (written by Mike Snider / Al Jaffee art) (48)
• Fold-In -- What advancement is being hailed as
  a breakthrough in air pollution control? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- The Modern "Catch of the Day"
  (Maple Communications, Inc photo)