Mad About the Fifties - 1997

(smaller format with crew cut cover - 2005)

• Crew Cut Cover Artist: Norman Mingo from Special #9
  with background by Jack Davis from the back cover of #30
• Rushmore Cover Artist: Norman Mingo from #31
• Borders: Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
• Compiled and Interior Design: Grant Geissman
  

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• Extremely important message from the editors
• Dedication to Harvey Kurtzman and thanks
• Foreward - Grant Geissman interviews Nick Meglin
• 1952-1955 summary by Grant Geissman
  with cover images: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
  8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22
• This section's comic material written by Harvey Kurtzman
• Mole! (Will Elder art)
• Lone Stranger! (Jack Davis art)
• Superduperman! (Wally Wood art)
• Melvin of the Apes! (John Severin art)
• Ping Pong! (Will Elder art)
• Shermlock Shomes! (Will Elder art)
• Bat Boy and Rubin! (Wally Wood art)
• The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe / Will Elder art)
• Starchie (Will Elder art)
• Beware of Imitations! - Ad For Mad (Mad-like titles)
  (Jack Davis art)
• Mickey Rodent! Presented by Walt Dizzy (Will Elder art)
• Howdy Dooit! (Will Elder art)
• Beware of Imitations! - Ad For Mad (Life) (Jack Davis art)
• Flesh Garden! (Wally Wood art)
• 1955-1959 summary by Grant Geissman
  with cover images: 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34,
  35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50
• Canadian Clubbed (ad parody)
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
• Beer Belongs - Enjoy It
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
• Mad Record Labels
  (written by Al Feldstein / Wally Wood art)
• Reader's Disgust (Joe Orlando)
• Winsten Cigarettes (ad parody) (Larry Maleman photo)
• Barker 61 Capillary Cigar (ad parody) (Kelly Freas art)
  (It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.)
• Sailem Cigarettes (Kelly Freas art)
• Crust Gum Paste (Kelly Freas art)
• Park-David Great Moments in Medicine (Kelly Freas art)