The Mad Reader - 1954

(Paperback #1)

• Cover Artists: 1954 - Jack Davis and Will Elder / 1969 - ? /
  1975 - Robert Grossman / 1978 - Norman Mingo
  
  
• Known printings: Ballantine 27
  

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• Promotional text
• Contents
• A Vital Message - by Roger Price
• Superduperman!
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Wally Wood art)
• Newspapers!
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
• Do People Laugh at You for Reading Comic Books?
  Subscription Ad (Jack Davis art)
• Starchie
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
• Flesh Garden!
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Wally Wood art)
• Beware of Imitations! - Ad For Mad
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
• Dragged Net!
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
• Beware of Imitations! - Ad For Mad (continued)
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
• What's My Shine!
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
  (article did not appear after first printings)
• Armstronger Tire (ad parody) (Will Elder art)
• The Face Upon the Floor! (written by Harvey Kurtzman)
  (Jack Davis and Basil Wolverton art) (H. Antoine d'Arcy)
• Meet Miss Potgold
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
• Gasoline Valley!
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
• Meet Miss Potgold (continued)
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
• Lone Stranger!
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
• The Men Who Make Mad - (bios of Jack Davis,
  Will Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, and Wally Wood)
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman)
  (article did not appear after first printings)