Mad #289 September 1989

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams

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• Ad for Super Special Winter 1989 - Mad Mania 2 -
  featuring a 50-page portfolio of Al Jaffee's classic junk (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• "Good hospitality is making your guests feel at home,
  even when you wish they were!" -- Alfred E. Neuman
• Ad for Subscriptions featuring Mad Buttons Bonus
• Letters (Dave Berg draws a Lighter Side of Malpractice panel) (Reader Todd Fronauer submits one last entry to go with #287's Specialized Nautilus Machines for Practical Everyday Activities) (2-3)
• Ad for Mad in the Box Paperback
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• Battyman (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Mort Drucker art) (4-10)
• The Haunting Hunting Hullabaloo (11)
  (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• A Mad Guide to Social Behavior -
  How Not to Go from Bad to Worse!
  (written by Chris Hart / Bob Jones art) (12-14)
• The Rookstone Catalog of Really Useful Tools, Nifty Gadgets, Hi-Tech Thingamajigs and Crafty Geegaws
  (Al Jaffee) (15-18)
• Spy vs. Spy - submarine with island top
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art) (19)
• More New Laws that Congress Should Pass Right Now!
  (written by Tom Koch / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (20-21)
• When Rap Music Spreads Into Everyday Life
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Jack Davis art) (22-24)
• The Excruciating Escape Extravaganza
  (Don (Duck) Edwing) (25)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (26-30)
• Video Reviews (31-33)
  (written by Stan Hart / Sam Viviano art)
• Selected Highlights from the Bottom-of-the-Barrel
  Sports Cable Network (Paul Peter Porges) (34-35)
• Murky Brown (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art) (36-40)
• A Mad Look at Driver's Ed (Sergio Aragones) (41-43)
• If Different Comedians Told the Same Joke
  (There's a fly in my soup...) (44-46)
  (written by Russ Cooper / Mort Drucker art)
• The Silly Solitary Scenario (Don (Duck) Edwing) (47)
• Mad Charts (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola) (48)
• Fold-In -- What's the latest in
  exciting summer water sports? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- The FBI's 6 Most Wanted Renegade Clowns
  (written by Dan Birtcher / Greg Theakston art)