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Mad Special #36 Fall 1981
(The Comics)
Cover Artist
:
Bob Clarke
One Day in the Comics Suburbs
(written by
Arnoldo Franchioni
/
Jack Rickard
art)
Contents Page
Sergio Aragones
Drawn-Out Dramas
**various places around the magazine
Comic Strips They'd Really Like to Do
Contributions from
Charles M. Schulz
- "Peanuts"
Walt Kelly
- "Pogo"
Ken Ernst
&
Allen Saunders
- "Mary Worth"
Mort Walker
- "Beetle Bailey"
Mell Lazarus
- "Miss Peach"
If Comic Strip Characters Answered Those Little Ads
(written by
Paul Krassner
/
Wally Wood
art)
The Mad "Comic" Opera
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Wally Wood
art)
More Powerful than a Locomotive...
(
Sergio Aragones
)
Adult TV Cartoons
(written by
Al Jaffee
/
Wally Wood
art)
Will Success Spoil Charlie Brown?
(written by
Larry Siegel
/
Jack Rickard
art)
Don Martin
Looks at Spiderman
Comicland
(magazine parody) (
Wally Wood
art)
(written by
Frank Jacobs
and
E. Nelson Bridwell
)
If Comic Characters Were Psychoanalyzed
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Bob Clarke
art)
A Mad Look at Super Heroes
(
Sergio Aragones
)
Nansy
- (
Wally Wood
art)
How other artists would interpret Ernie Brushfiller's comic
Misery is a Cold Hot Dog
(book parody)
(written by
Larry Siegel
/
Bob Clarke
art)
If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Ordinary People
(written by
Al Jaffee
/
Wally Wood
art)
If Famous Authors Wrote the Comics
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Wally Wood
art)
If the World's Great Painters Drew the Comics
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Jack Rickard
art)
A Mad Portfolio of Appropriate Comic Strip Sound Effects
(written by
Earle Doud
/
Bob Clarke
art)
Future Educational Comic Pamphlets
(written by
Larry Siegel
/
Wally Wood
art)
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A Mad Look at Superman
(written by
Don (Duck) Edwing
/
Don Martin
art)
If "Peanuts" Were a Weekly TV Series
(written by
Lou Silverstone
/
Jack Rickard
art)
The Comic Strip Characters' Christmas Party
(written by
Gary Belkin
/
Wally Wood
art)
Comics for Publications That Don't Have Comics
(written by
Frank Jacobs
,
Stan Hart
and
Larry Siegel
/
Bob Clarke
art)
If Comic Strip Artists Drew Editorial Cartoons
(written by
Gary Belkin
/
Wally Wood
art)
Tell-Tale Comic Strip Balloons
(written by
Don (Duck) Edwing
/
Bob Clarke
art)
A Super Opportunity
(
Sergio Aragones
)
If Comic Strip Characters Were as Old as Their Strips
(written by
Earle Doud
/
Wally Wood
art)
A Mad Look at Batman
(
Sergio Aragones
)
The End of Comics
(written by
Tom Koch
/
Wally Wood
art)
Obituaries For Comic Strip Characters
(written by
Frank Jacobs
)
Fold-In --
Which modern artist is most successfully communicating with his audience?
(
Al Jaffee
)
Back Cover -
Superman's Super Hernia
(written by
Don (Duck) Edwing
/
Don Martin
art)
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