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Mad Special #27 Summer 1979
Cover Artist:
Norman Mingo
A Mind-Blowing Incident
(
Sergio Aragones
)
Contents Page
Sergio Aragones
Drawn-Out Dramas
**various places around the magazine
The Mad Plan For Foiling Obnoxious Sales and Business People
(written by
Larry Siegel
/
Angelo Torres
art)
Labor Pains
(
Arnoldo Franchioni
)
Citizen's Arrests
(written by
Stan Hart
/
Jack Rickard
art)
Public Service Announcements We Really Need
(written by
Tom Koch
/
Harry North, Esq.
art)
Civil Service Exams
(written by
Stan Hart
/
Jack Rickard
art)
8 "James Bomb" Bomb Movies
(movie satires)
(written by
Arnie Kogen
/
Mort Drucker
art)
The Mad Crisis Primer
(written by
Stan Hart
/
Paul Coker, Jr.
art)
One Day on a Tennis Court
(
Don Martin
)
Mad Shock-Sticks
(bonus insert)
(introduction page
Norman Mingo
art)
Mad's "Singles Only" Resort Owner of the Year
(written by
Lou Silverstone
/
George Woodbridge
art)
Spy vs. Spy
- prison window
file bar spring (
Antonio Prohias
)
Unavoidable Exercises for the Urban Dweller
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Al Jaffee
art)
The Lighter Side of Cold Weather
(
Dave Berg
)
At "The National Association of Professional
Glass-Eaters" Banquet
(
Don Martin
)
A Downer is...
(written by
Lou Silverstone
/
Paul Coker, Jr.
art)
Mad's Cheap Revolutionary Way to Eat Out and Lose Weight!
(written by
Larry Gore
/
Al Jaffee
art)
The Six Million Dollars, Man!
(TV satire)
(written by
Lou Silverstone
/
Angelo Torres
art)
Mad Solutions to Big City Doggie-Do Problems
(
Al Jaffee
)
One Day in a Run-Down Shack
(
Don Martin
)
The Lighter Side of The High Cost of Living
(
Dave Berg
)
Ghoulish Medical Corp. 1974 Hospital Supply Catalogue
(written by
Tom Koch
/
Bob Clarke
art)
Bluff that Mugger!
(written by
E. Nelson Bridwell
/
Bruce Day
art)
The Zing
(movie satire)
(written by
Arnie Kogen
/
Mort Drucker
art)
One Day in the Patent Office
(
Don Martin
)
Fold-In --
What is the only thing that
completely ignores the law of gravity?
(
Al Jaffee
)
Back Cover --
Yes, Virginia - Due to the high cost of living, there is no Santa Claus this year!
(
Jack Rickard
art)
Red = First Appearance of Original Material
/
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