Mad #388 December 1999

• Cover Artist: Scott Bricher
• Cover Writer: Peter Kuper

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• Ad for Subscriptions (Kelly Freas art from #52) (C2)
• Vey To Go - "Me? I thought you knew him." (P. C. Vey)
• Contents Page (1-3)
• Ads for Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad #8 - Winter 1999
  contains reprints of comics #22 and #23,
  promos of next issue #389 and Mad XL #1
• Letters (4-5)
  • James L. Davis - Sunnyvale, CA
  • The New York Times borrows fold-in concept
  • Jesse S. Sommer - Voorheesville, NY
  • Vane Becidyan - Paramus, NJ
  • Peter Oliveri - Hightstown, NJ
  • Andrew Nelson - Nelson@ini.net
  • Fake Celebrity Snap with #384 - (with Michael Jordan)
    Duke Berowitz - Grand Rapids, ND
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Mad Looks at What's on the Back of Your Ticket (6-9)
  (written by Desmond Devlin & Butch D'Ambrosio)
  (Ray Alma art)
• A Mad Look at Funerals (Sergio Aragones) (10-13)
• Monroe &... The Candy
  (written by Anthony Barbieri / Bill Wray art) (14-16)
• SlimeDish Digital Television (ad parody)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo) (17)
• Spy vs. Spy - fan blows back aerosol acid
  (written by Michael Gallagher / Peter Kuper art) (18-19)
• End-of-the-Millennium War Awards
  (Rick Geary) (20)
• The Positive Side of the Y2K Problem
  (written by Barry Liebmann / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (21-23)
• Absentee Excuse Notes Through History
  (written by Charlie Richards / Mort Drucker art) (24-25)
• Clues Your High School's Football Team Really Sucks
  (John Caldwell) (26-27)
• They Shoot Horses' Asses, Don't They?
  (Don (Duck) Edwing) (28)
• The Spending Annex Adult Education Center
  (written by Scott Maiko / Irving Schild photos) (29-32)
• Scenes of Americana Yesterday & Today
  (written by Mike Snider / George Woodbridge art) (33-35)
• Sean "Puffy" Combs' Day Planner
  (written by Mike Snider / Andre Leroy Davis art) (36-37)
• Other Y2K Problems
  Guaranteed to Make Your Life Miserable
  (written by Mike Snider / Monte Wolverton art) (38)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (39-42)
• Moronica's Closet (TV satire)
  (written by Josh Gordon / Angelo Torres art) (43-47)
• Mad's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds:
  Ricky Martin
  (written by Mike Snider / Hermann Mejia art) (48)
• Fold-In -- What frightening project has
  inexplicably raked in millions? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- Artist At Work
  (written by Michael Gallagher / Tom Bunk art)