Mad #291 December 1989

• Cover Artist: Sam Viviano

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• Ad for Subscriptions featuring Mad Buttons Bonus (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• Letters (2-3)
  (photos of Jack Nicholson and Yakov Smirnoff with #289)
• Ad for Mad's All New "Snappy Answers
  to Stupid Questions" by Al Jaffee Paperback
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The Blunder Years (TV satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Sam Viviano art) (4-8)
• The Lusty Ledge Legend (Don (Duck) Edwing) (9)
• Compu-Doc Self-Service Medical Terminal
  (Paul Coker, Jr. art)
  (written by Paul Coker, Jr. and Floyd Kemske) (10-11)
• More Items from Mad's Celebrity Supermarket (12-14)
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Bob Clarke art)
• Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy - nitroglycerin martini glass clink (15)
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art)
• Why You Are Sure to Win the Next
  Magazine Publishers' Sweepstakes
  (written by Tom Koch / John Caldwell art) (16-18)
• Mad's Political Image Maker of the Year
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Angelo Torres art) (19-22)
• The Feathered Feeding Frenzy (Don (Duck) Edwing) (23)
• Baseball at the Bat
  (based on the Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / James Warhola art) (24-25)
• Fleeting "Stars" of the Six O'Clock Local News
  (Paul Peter Porges) (26-27)
• No Hoax Barred (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Jack Davis art) (28-32)
• The Jarring Jungle Joyride (Don (Duck) Edwing) (33)
• Mad's Big Ego Busters
  (written by Stan Hart / Al Jaffee art) (34-35)
• How Newspapers Write Misleading
  Headlines to Jazz Up Otherwise Dull Stories
  (written by Paul Laikin) (36-37)
• A Mad Look at Ghosts (Sergio Aragones) (38-39)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (40-44)
• Inbanana Jones and His Last Crude Days (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art) (45-48)
• Fold-In -- When it comes to protecting us, where is
  our government's weakest link? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- Lesser-Known Ninja Turtles
  (written by Mike Snider / Greg Theakston art)