MAD #355 — March 1997

"Today, if you ask a car dealer to let you see something for 10 grand, he'll show you the door!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions — Help End Civilization As We Know It!
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Mario Cuomo holds up a MAD in TV ad / Ad for Super Special #120 April 1997 — Big Bad MAD #4
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Spit City (TV satire)

  Hold the Mayor Dept.

  Written by Josh Gordon / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #16 — July 2002
  4–8
• If the IRS had to Ask for Voluntary Contributions for Everything in the Federal Budget

  Sticking Yourself With a Dumb-Tax Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #26 — March 2004
  9
• How to Tell You've Bought the Wrong Digital Satellite System

  Dish is the Winner of Our Discontent Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #21 — June 2003
  10–11
• Even Still More Badly Needed Warning Labels for Rock Albums

  Disc-Claimers Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Maple Comm. photos

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #19 — January 2003
  12–14
• MAD in the Year 2038

  Future Schlock Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by:

  • Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions — Al Jaffee
  • The MAD Nasty File, Vol. 53 — Gerry Gersten sample
  • You May Have Been a Test-Tube Baby If… — Don (Duck) Edwing
  • A MAD Look at Alzheimer's — Sergio Aragones sample
  • A MAD Peek Behind the Scenes at Michael Jordan's Funeral — Paul Coker, Jr. (credited to Mort Drucker by mistake)
  • Spy vs. Spy — old-spy home death — Dave Manak
  • The Lighter Side of… — Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD XL #16 — July 2002
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Dave Berg — 2013 (excerpt featuring Berg)
  • MAD #19 — June 2021
  15–19
• A MAD Look at Pregnancy

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD XL #16 — July 2002
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  20–22
• MAD's Breaking News Coverage Checklist

  Bulletin Bored Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Drew Friedman

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #18 — November 2002
  23–25
• The Lighter Side of…

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg
  26–30
• MAD Weighs the Pros & Cons

  Two Snides to Every Story Dept.

  Written by Barry Liebmann / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #24 — November 2003
  31–34 sample
• When the Dilbert Cast Invades Other Comic Strips

  Adams Ribbed Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Steve Smallwood

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD About Comic Strips — 2003
  • MAD Color Classics #7 — April 2003
  35–37
• When Physician-Assisted Suicide Becomes Specialized

  Meeting the Grin Reaper Dept.

  Tom Cheney

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The MAD Gross Book — 2001
  • MAD Classics #25 — May 2009
  38–39
• Spy vs. Spy — Frankenstein bride ba-booms

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Dave Manak

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  • MAD #22 — December 2021
  • MAD #45 — October 2025
  40–41
• The Sinking Guy (TV satire)

  Must Flee TV Dept.

  Written by Josh Gordon / Art by Angelo Torres
  42–47
• The Jerky Jurassic Junket

  Tales From the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Color Classics #3 — April 2001
  48
• Fold-In — Who will come out on top in this year's "March Madness?"

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Color Classics #7 — April 2003
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Psychic Fiends Network

  Written by Dick DeBartolo

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD 50 Years of Stupidity! — 2002
  • MADvertising — 2005
  • The Best of the Worst! — Special Collector's Edition 2012
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