MAD #304 — July 1991

"An employer is someone who's late when you're early and early when you're late!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions

  featuring MAD Buttons Bonus / Big Books
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Photo of Tim Curry with the cast of It — with #297
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• The Oddfather Part III (movie satire)

  Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Pacino Evil Dept.

  Written by Arnie Kogen / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #122 — August 1997
  • MAD About The Mob — 2002
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  4–8
• Drama on Page 9 — “Turmoil Among the Timber”

  Chop Schtick Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #132 — November 1998
  9
• America — Land of Opportunity

  Scars and Gripes Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #122 — August 1997
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD Spoofs America — Special Collector's Edition 2026
  10–11 sample
• Modern Day Clue Game Cards Ripped From Today's Headlines

  Sleuth Decay Dept.

  Written by Mary Pat Lindl / Art by Greg Theakston

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #105 — July 1995
  12–13
• The Pitiful Postal Peril

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #122 — August 1997
  • MAD XL #15 — June 2002
  14
• New and Improved Store Kiddie Rides

  Feeble Attractions Dept.

  Written by Dan Birtcher / Art by Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #132 — November 1998
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  15–17
• More Same Words…Different Circumstances!

  Just a Phrase We're Going Through Dept.

  Written by John Prete / Art by Rick Tulka

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #102 — March 1995
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD Kids #3 — May 2006 (excerpt)
  • Insanely Awesome MAD — Deluxe Edition — 2014
  18–19 sample
• The Masterful Mess-Hall Melee

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing
  20
• Unsolved Miseries (TV satire)

  Re-Enacts to Grind Dept.

  Written by Andrew J. Schwartzberg / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #117 — December 1996
  21–23 sample
• A MAD Peek Behind the Scenes at a Madonna Video

  Unlike a Virgin Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #112 — April 1996
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Gushing Fourth Edition — 2004
  24–25
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #130 — August 1998
  • MAD #28 — December 2022 (excerpt)
  • 70th Anniversary Issue — Vol. 3 — December 2022 — B&N Edition (excerpt)
  26–30
• Rotten Places Where Waldo Really Would Have to Hide

  Unseen We'd Like to See Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #122 — August 1997
  31–33
• The Dorky Downhill Distortion

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #120 — April 1997
  • MAD XL #30 — November 2004
  34
• MAD's Video Reviews

  Hart Burn Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Sam Viviano

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #120 — April 1997
  35–37 sample
• Daily Aerobic Routines Without Costly Video Tapes

  Your Days Are Limbered Dept.

  Paul Peter Porges

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #130 — August 1998
  38–39
• Spy vs. Spy — boulder chain reaction effect on wrecking balls

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

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

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #116 — October 1996
  • Spy Vs. Spy — The Complete Casebook — Antonio Prohias — 2001
  • Spy Vs. Spy — Omnibus — Antonio Prohias — 2011
  40
• Modern Day Dinosaurs We Wish Were Extinct

  Frank on a Roll Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #129 — July 1998
  • MAD XL #21 — June 2003 (excerpt)
  • MAD Hodgepodge of Humor — Vol. 2 — Aug/Sep 2025
  41–43 sample
• Deadwood Scissorsham (movie satire)

  A Trip to Sever-Sever Land Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #140 — September 1999
  • MAD Classics #15 — June 2007
  • MAD Spoofs Movie Classics — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  44–48 sample
• Fold-In — What new health hazard are scientists now carefully monitoring?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions at a Wrestling Match

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #129 — July 1998
  • MAD Art — 2002
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
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