Mad #294 April 1990

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams

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• Ad for Subscriptions featuring A Pretentious Compendium of Mad's Very Best Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions by Al Jaffee and Mad Zaps the Human Race! by Frank Jacobs
  Big Book Bonuses (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• Ad for The Weather Mad Paperback
• Letters (photos of Candice Bergen ripping up Mad #289,
  Tales from the Crypt Cryptkeeper reading #292,
  Dave Berg with some Soviet humor magazine guys) (2-3)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Empty Mess (TV satire)
  (written by Josh Gordon / Mort Drucker art) (4-8)
• The Double Dutch Deathtrap (Don (Duck) Edwing) (9)
• Do You Really Need to Know... (idea by Mary Pat Lindl)
  (written by John Prete / Al Jaffee art) (10-11)
• The Mad Career Mart (12-13)
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Bob Clarke art)
• The Mad TV Coroner's Report - Volume II
  (written by Frank Jacobs) (14-16)
• Spy vs. Spy - horseshoe magnet
  rings submarine (Bob Clarke) (17)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (18-22)
• The Cannibal Coffee-Shop Conundrum
  (Don (Duck) Edwing) (23)
• Old MacDonald (song update) (Dan Lozer idea)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Gerry Gersten art) (24-25)
• The Mad "Don't" Book - (Chapters 2-5)
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola)
  (Paul Coker, Jr. art) (26-27)
• Mad's Rock Quiz
  (written by Desmond Devlin / Rick Tulka art) (28-29)
• Eavesdropper Shockers
  (written by Mike Snider / Bob Jones art) (30-31)
• Drama on Page 32 -
  Stella's House of Velcro (John Caldwell) (32)
• The Art of Breaking Bad News Gently
  (written by Tom Koch) (33-35)
• The Real Reasons Why You Can't Bring Your Friends Home! (Paul Peter Porges) (36-37)
• Dorky Housecall, M.D. (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art) (38-42)
• The Titillating Tennis Tumult (Don (Duck) Edwing) (43)
• Political Half-Truths
  (written by Chris Hart / George Woodbridge art) (44-45)
• Get a Life!!!!!!!!
  (written by Charlie Kadau / Jack Davis art) (46-47)
• Mad's Updated Book Titles for the 90's
  (written by William Garvin / Bob Clarke art) (48)
• Fold-In -- What creature recently
  became extinct in Alaska? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- An Ad They'll Never Show -
  You've Got Cancer of the Hump!
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / John Pound art)