Mad Special #18 Summer 1976

• Cover Artists: Norman Mingo, Will Elder,
  Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman

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• Introduction Page for The Nostalgic Mad #4 -
  "Our Fourth Assortment of Collectors' Items
  From These Valuable Issues of the '50's" -
  Shows covers from #5, #7, #8, #12, #15, #17, #20, and #21.
• The Nostalgic Mad #4 (bonus insert)
  • Cover - #7 (Harvey Kurtzman)
  • Similar "Mad" -type comic book titles
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Wally Wood art)
  • Shermlock Shomes!
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
  • Wild 1 (correction) Wild 1/2
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Wally Wood art)
  • Lone Stranger!
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Jack Davis art)
  • The "Publisher of the Issue"
    William M. Gaines (Alias Melvin)
    (written by Al Feldstein)
  • Starchie
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
  • Comic Book Ads!
    (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Will Elder art)
  • Back Cover - #20 (written by Harvey Kurtzman)
• Contents Page
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Mad Final Episodes of Some Long-Running TV Shows
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Angelo Torres art)
• How Today's "Special Interest" Pressure Groups Would
  Rewrite the Constitution (written by William Garvin)
• A Portfolio of Mad Good News - Bad News Photo Silhouettes (Arnoldo Franchioni / UPI and Wide World photos)
• The Marvelous Mad De-Coding Machine
  (written by Stan Hart / Jack Rickard art)
• Spell It Like It Is (written by Norman Miller)
• Shmoe (movie satire)
  (written by Larry Siegel / Mort Drucker art)
• Recruiting Posters Through History
  (written by Paul Peter Porges / George Woodbridge art)
• The Very First Musical Instrument (Don Martin)
• What They Say and What It Really Means
  (written by George Hart / Bob Clarke art)
• Answers to Children's Letters - From Santa
  (written by Dick DeBartolo and Don Epstein / DPI photo)
• The Lighter Side of Love (Dave Berg)
• Condolence Cards For Business and Professional Tragedies
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• One Hot Summer Morning (Don Martin)
• A Mad Look at Pet Owners
  (written by Stan Hart / Bob Clarke art)
• Meet Sudhir Dar - A Tasty Indian "Nut"
  (John Putnam title art)
• Mad's Reality Street (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Jack Davis art)
• Modern Art (written by Max Brandel / Irving Schild photos)
• The Psychology of Snoring (written by Frank Jacobs)
• One Morning on Main Street (Don Martin)
• Excuses, Excuses! Past and Present
  (written by Dick DeBartolo and Don Epstein)
  (George Woodbridge art)
• A Collection of Mad X-Rayvings
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art)
• The Lighter Side of Living Space (Dave Berg)
• Future Shock (Sergio Aragones)
• The Mad Orthodontia Primer
  (written by Larry Siegel / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Spy vs. Spy - club nailed to floor board (Antonio Prohias)
• The New Army (written by Frank Jacobs / Jack Davis art)
• The Daily Congressional Off-The-Record
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Irving Schild photos)
• A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a Recording Studio (written by Earle Doud / Jack Davis art)
• If the Characters in "Peanuts" Aged Like Ordinary People (written by Frank Jacobs / Bob Clarke art)
• A Mad Look At Waterbeds (Paul Peter Porges)
• An Italian Robin Catching a Worm (Don Martin)
• The Trauma of '42 (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Mort Drucker art)
• Fold-In -- What is fast becoming the only place to
  see rare vanishing animal species? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- The Four Horsemen of the Metropolis
  (idea by Frank Jacobs / Jack Thurston art)