MAD #295 — June 1990

"A gossip columnist is someone who uses dirt to make a mountain out of a molehill!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Super Special #72 — Fall 1990 — Our Creature Presentation
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Ad for Don (Duck) Edwing's MADventures of Almost Superheroes Paperback, 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
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Bleak For the Future Part II (movie satire)

  21st Century Fox Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #87 — May 1993 (excerpt)
  • MAD Special #111 — March 1996
  • MAD #19 — June 2021
  4–9 sample
• When “Doublespeak” Takes Over Completely

  A Word to the Guise Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #109 — December 1995
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Turd in a Series — 2003
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Sergio Aragonés — 2010
  • MAD's Greatest Writers — Frank Jacobs — 2015
  10–11
• “When I Was Your Age...” Stories Today's Kids Will Be Telling Their Grandchildren

  Recall Waiting Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #111 — March 1996
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  12–13 sample
• Sports Disasters of the 1980's

  Let the Maims Begin Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #118 — February 1997
  14–16
• The Meaty Mermaid Menace

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Idiotic Fruity Candy — Special Collectors' Series — 1993
  • MAD Color Classics #7 — April 2003
  • MAD Kids #5 — December 2006
  • Amazingly Stupid MAD — 2012
  • Amazingly Stupid MAD — Expanded Edition — 2013
  17
• America's 9 Most Wanted Jerks

  Bland on the Run Dept.

  Paul Peter Porges

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #113 — June 1996
  18–19
• Some Truly Joyous Things You Could Do if You Won the Lottery

  Splurge in General Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #118 — February 1997
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  20–21
• Future Sitcoms That Break Fresh Ground

  Off the Beaten Laugh Track Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Sam Viviano

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #113 — June 1996
  22–24
• Spy vs. Spy — tank turret copter

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

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

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Idiotic Fruity Candy — Special Collectors' Series — 1993
  • MAD Special #109 — December 1995
  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  25
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Idiotic Fruity Candy — Special Collectors' Series — 1993 (excerpt)
  • MAD Special #118 — February 1997
  26–30
• MAD's Really Relevant Collection of Lists

  Compiling It On Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #116 — October 1996
  31–33
• TV and Movie Credits You Probably Missed

  Crawl of the Wild Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #111 — March 1996
  34–35
• More MAD Switcheroos

  From Bad to Reverse Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #102 — March 1995
  • MAD XL #10 — July 2001
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  • MAD's Greatest Writers — Frank Jacobs — 2015
  36–37
• A Modern Day Fairy Tale — The Turtle and the Hare

  Turtle Whacks Dept.

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

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Idiotic Fruity Candy — Special Collectors' Series — 1993
  • MAD Special #116 — October 1996
  • MAD About Super Heroes — 2002
  38
• Look Who's Squawking (movie satire)

  Child A-bruce Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Angelo Torres
  39–42
• The Longwinded Laboratory Liquidation

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Idiotic Fruity Candy — Special Collectors' Series — 1993
  • MAD Special #118 — February 1997
  • MAD XL #20 — March 2003
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  43
• If Famous Movies Were Made Into Comic Strips

  Media-morphosis Dept.

  Russ Cooper

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #101 — January 1995
  • MAD About Comic Strips — 2003
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Turd in a Series — 2003
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  44–47
• MAD's Ultimate TV Remote Control

  Zaps All, Folks! Dept.

  Written by Mark Dressler / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #116 — October 1996
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• Fold-In — A “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions” Smoking Confrontation

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #102 — March 1995
  • MAD Fold This Book — 1997
  • MAD Art — 2002
  • MAD Color Classics #11 — April 2005
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Night Deposit

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD #28 — December 2022
  • 70th Anniversary Issue — Vol. 3 — December 2022 — B&N Edition
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