MAD #424 — December 2002

"Just because you put your foot down doesn't mean it won't end up in your mouth!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• MAD's Politically Incorrect “Gulf Wars: Clone of the Attack” Poster

  Written by Arie Kaplan and Scott Sonneborn / Art by Scott Bricher / AP & Wide World photos

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • The MAD War on Bush — 2007
  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007
  • Inside MAD — 2013
  • MAD Picks — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  C2+
• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Readers recall first exposure to MAD, Idiot-Finding Schematic for MAD #423's The Usual Gang of Idiots 1952–2002 Pull-Out Poster (page 4)
  4, 6, 8
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Harry Plodder and the Lamest of Sequels (movie satire)

  They're Off To Be the Wizards Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD About the Movies — Director's Cut — 2008
  • MAD Presents Harry Potter — September 2011
  10–18
• MAD's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Corporate Scandal Newspaper Story

  Laughing All the Way to the Blank Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Rick Tulka

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #17 — September 2007
  20–21
• If Martha's Calendar Really Reported What Martha is Doing

  A Page from Her Crook Book Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau / Art by Tom Nick Cocotos
  24–25
• Monroe and... Identity Theft

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #25 — May 2009
  26–28
• The Bunion — America's Phoniest News Source (website satire)

  Slim Clickin's Dept.

  Written by Scott Maiko / Art by Scott Bricher / AP & Wide World photos

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Classics #20 — January 2008
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Best of the Worst! — Special Collector's Edition 2012
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  30–31
• One Fine Day in the Hospital

  Flee Circus Dept.

  Written by Michael Gallagher / Art by Hilary Barta

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #22 — July 2008
  32 sample
• How the Economic Recession is Affecting Certain Fringe Businesses

  Red Inc. Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #24 — January 2009
  33–35
• Scenes So Bad They Didn't Even Make the DVD — Spider-Man

  Web-Stinger Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Kids #7 — May 2007 (excerpt)
  36
• Another MAD Look at Plastic Surgery

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  38–41
• Designs (movie satire)

  Crop Circle Jerks Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Horrifyingly MAD — 2011
  42–46
• Spy vs. Spy — collapsing ladder slicer

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  • Spy vs. Spy — The Top Secret Files — 2011
  50–51
• Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions — Special Sports Edition!

  All Jaffee Dept.

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • MAD Classics #21 — April 2008
  • Insanely Awesome MAD — 2011
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Golden Treasury of Trash — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • Insanely Awesome MAD — Deluxe Edition — 2014
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  54–55
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Jackie Chan

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #17 — September 2007
  56
• Fold-In — How should the most corrupt business executives be punished?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The MAD War on Bush — 2007
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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