Mad Special #9 Summer 1973

• Cover Artists: Norman Mingo and Harvey Kurtzman

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• Introduction Page for The Nostalgic Mad #1 -
  "An Assortment of Collectors' Items From
  These Valuable Issues of the '50's" -
  Shows covers from #1, #4, #5, #6, #11, #19, and #21.
• The Nostalgic Mad #1 (bonus insert)
  • Cover - #1
    (Bob Clarke recreates Harvey Kurtzman's cover)
  • Inside Front Cover - #21
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman)
  • Superduperman!
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Wally Wood art)
  • Melvin of the Apes!
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman / John Severin art)
  • Beware of Imitations! - Ad For Mad (Jack Davis art)
  • Outer Sanctum!
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
  • Inside Back Cover - #19
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman)
  • Back Cover - #11
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Basil Wolverton art)
• Contents Page
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Don Martin Tries 8 New Ways to Fly
• Mad's Chemical Banquet
  (written by Sy Reit / Irving Schild photo)
• A Mad Peek Into Some Legendary Medicine Cabinets
  (written by Paul Peter Porges / Bob Clarke art)
• When the "No Opinion" People Become the Majority
  (written by Frank Jacobs / idea by Elaine Dunn)
  (Jack Rickard art)
• Criticisms For the Common Man
  (written by Alphonse Normandia)
• Can A Lot (movie satire)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Mort Drucker art)
• The Mad Plan to Beautify America With Integrated
  Highway Signs (written by Dick DeBartolo / Bob Clarke art)
• The Lighter Side of American Tourists (Dave Berg)
• The Mad Ice Hockey Primer
  (written by Larry Siegel / Jack Davis art)
• "Me and My Big Mouth!"
  (written by Dean Norman / Al Jaffee art)
• If Comic Strips Covered the Burning Issues of the Day (written by Frank Ridgeway / Bob Clarke art)
• The Hunters (Don Martin)
• The Mad Poetry Round Robin
  (written by Frank Jacobs / George Woodbridge art)
• A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at an Airport
  (written by Larry Siegel / Jack Rickard art)
• Christmas Is... (written by Gilbert Barnhill / Al Jaffee art)
• Spy Vs. Spy - expanding fuselage drop / roll-up bridge (Antonio Prohias)
• Horrifying Cliches (Paul Coker, Jr. art)
  (written by May Sakami and E. Nelson Bridwell)
• A Mad Look at Realistic Dolls
  (written by Harold Morrison / Irving Schild photos)
• The Lighter Side of The Generation Gap (Dave Berg)
• In a Fancy Restaurant (Don Martin)
• If Polls and Surveys Had Been Used Through History (written by Sy Reit / George Woodbridge art)
• A Mad Look at Frustration
  (written by Jack Kent / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Odd Squad (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art)
• Spy Vs. Spy - plunger on window wacker (Antonio Prohias)
• Signs of Status (written by Al Jaffee / Bob Clarke art)
• In an Italian Restaurant (Don Martin)
• Fold-In -- What gift will many holiday
  party revelers pick up on the drive home? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- The Tomb of the Unknown Smoker
  (Max Brandel / Irving Schild photo)