The Mad Cover Site - Quiz Archive
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Kelly Freas' Klotz
Gaines on cover
Aircraft nose art
Elvis stamp connection
Cover wrap to back
Don Martin's Alfred
Spy dots & dashes
Mad Olympic sport
Khrushchev look-a-like
"rare" 'Double-A'
SNL cast Mad writer
No Alfred head
Comic panel format
What is a POIUYT?
Mad aeolipiles
Alfred with all teeth
Alfred's father
The missing president
Tobacco insurance
Latin translation
Empty-headed Alfred
Piano-playing Alfred
Rock star covers
Dave Berg
Worried Alfred
Last minute covers
Mad #44 cover flaw
Kate Jackson covers
Fold-In value
Old Star Wars Alfred
New York skyline
Alfred teeth marks
The Beatles Fold-In
Axolotl
Four or more Alfreds
Miles Davis / Don Martin
Missing CD pages
First Alfred cover
War covers
Valentine's Day
Movie series covers
American-style football
"Real" art
Diagonal Mad logo
Lt. William Calley
Multiple covers
Sergio Aragones
Playing card covers
Sticker parodies
Recursion / Droste effect
Covers with Monkeys
Barf Bags
Comic front / Mag back
Alfred damage
Alfred face bits
Alfred gravity
Bicycling Alfred
Toilet Trouble
Redrawn Sub Ads
Most Used Ads
Kelly Freas' famous Crust Gum Paste ad on the back of issue #43 shows a toothless delinquent holding up his school principal's note to the kid's parents. The principal's name is Herman Klotz. Why did Freas pick that name?
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How many times has
William M. Gaines
made a cover
appearance on
his beloved rag?
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Hello Mr. Gilford,
I found your website when I was doing research about "nose art" on a Korean War B-29 vintage aircraft. The nose art was applied in 1952 or some time later. I read that the "lovely" guy adorning the B-29 was adopted from an early MAD Magazine.
My questions are:
Was that really a MAD figure and if it was, what was its name and in which issue did it appear?
If it is not part of the MAD Magazine world then what are its origins?
Christoph
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What's the direct
connection between
this stamp and
Mad Magazine?
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How many Mad front covers have their artwork
wrap around seamlessly to the back cover?
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Aapo from Finland wants to know:
Has legendary Mad artist, Don Martin,
ever drawn Alfred's face?
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What is that series of dashes and dots
under the title of every
Spy vs. Spy article?
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What Mad sport
should be included
in the Olympics?
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Doug,
I had a publicity client by the name of Oscar Jordan, who was a Nikita Khrushchev look-a-like. Mad did some photo art of my client ripping up a copy of "Mad". My framed picture is pretty faded. I would like to find the issue... It's hard, because I can't remember the exact date.
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Is this rare 'Double-A'
issue of Mad
really worth $3000?!
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Which former Saturday Night Live cast member
has a Mad Magazine writing credit?
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Since Norman Mingo's famous representation of Alfred on issue #30,
how many covers have
not
depicted Alfred's head?
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Mad #80 from July 1963
featured Mad's first use
of a comic strip
panel format for the cover.
How many times
have they done this?
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What is a
POIUYT
?
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I'd walk a mile
for an aeolipile...
What is it and
what does it have
to do with Mad?
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Has Alfred ever appeared on a Mad cover with a full set of teeth?
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What does Alfred's father look like?
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Which of these U.S. Presidents has NOT appeared on the front cover of Mad Magazine?
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I had heard that someone wrote a letter to Mad, pointing out the irony of a tobacco company owning a life insurance company. I'd like to get a copy of the MAD with this letter, but I don't know what issue it is. Can you point me in the right direction?
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Paul W. asks, "Is there a Latin translation of
What, Me Worry?"
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How many times has
the empty outline
of Alfred's head
been featured on
Mad covers?
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TRUE or FALSE?
Alfred played the piano on at least one regular issue cover.
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Which rock star
or group has had
the most
regular cover
appearances?
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How long had Dave Berg
been a Mad staple?
When did he first show his
Lighter Side
?
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Has our mild-mannered Alfred ever been truly worried?
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Was there ever an instance in which Mad altered
a cover it was prepared to publish
due to a national tragedy?
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I recently picked up a MAD Magazine #44 Jan. '59 in decent condition. The cover looks just as it does on your web page (which is a great resource by the way!!! Don't get rid of it ever!!!), but my question has to do with the back cover of this issue. I swear it doesn't look flawed, but it almost appears that maybe there is an impression from another issue on the back cover, almost like the inks from another issue stuck to the backside of this issue from stacking other MAD mags??!??!?? I honestly can't tell for sure. Thank you very much for your time on this mystery of mine.
James
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How many times has actress Kate Jackson
graced the cover of Mad Magazine?
Can you name the issue(s)
or at least describe the cover(s)?
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Does having the Mad Fold-In
folded
reduce the value of the magazine?
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What Star Wars characters
from the first three movies
has Alfred appeared as
on past regular covers?
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How many times has the
New York City skyline
been featured on Mad covers?
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On what food items has Alfred left his distinctive mark?
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Al Jaffee's 3rd Fold-In (for issue #88) was unusual
for what reason besides featuring The Beatles?
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Can you help settle this urgent research question?
Did or did not the word
"axolotl"
appear
from time to time in inexplicable places in Mad??
Thank you from an actual axolotl researcher.
Susan
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How many regular issue covers contain at least four
different
versions of Alfred?
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What's the connection between legendary Mad artist, Don Martin
and legendary jazz artist, Miles Davis?
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Why does the
Totally Mad CD-Rom
set
show wadded-up pages
in place of some of
the earlier Mad articles?
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Issue #30
shows the first
appearance of Alfred
on a Mad cover...
Right?
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What
war-related
covers
has Mad
done over
the years?
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How many
Mad regular issue covers
have featured
Valentine's Day
references?
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Besides Star Wars, what movie series can claim over three cover appearances?
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How many Mad regular issues covers have featured
the sport of American style football?
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How many times has "real" art
been misrepresented
on regular
Mad covers?
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Why and on what issue did
change their logo from
the straight up and down to the slightly diagonal logo? -- Chris
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Trick Question
I don't remember which issue or year, but the issue with Alfred E. dressed in Lt. Calley's uniform with the
"What, My Lai?"
motto is the best.
--Larry
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How many times has Mad used
the cheap gimmick of multiple covers
to sell more issues?
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On how many covers
has Sergio Aragones
employed his
"marginal" talent?
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Five Card Dud:
On how many covers
has Alfred appeared
on or with
playing cards?
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Besides the Wacky Packages
sticker parody of MAD called MUD,
have there been any
other sticker parodies of the magazine?
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How many regular issue Mad covers illustrate an example of recursion and, in particular, the Droste effect?
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How many regular issue covers feature creatures of the simian persuasion?
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A woozy feeling has been known
to overtake Mad readers.
How many times have
Barf Bags been featured
on regular issue Mad covers?
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What Mad Comic Book front cover became a future Mad Magazine back cover?
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When has Alfred damaged one of his regular issue front covers to such a degree that you could see
the interior contents page?
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On which regular issues has
Alfred's face been formed from
a collection of smaller things?
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On which regular issue covers
has Alfred made use of his own
Neuman laws of gravity?
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Alfred has been shown
pedaling a bicycle on how
many regular issue covers?
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How often has Mad bowled us over with images of toilets on Mad Magazine covers?
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How many times was a
"Why Kill Yourself?"
subscription ad
redrawn years later?
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Out of tons of subscription ads, which one has Mad reprinted the most?
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