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MAD Back-Cover Wraps from the Front

Norman Mingo did it first with issue #35.

MAD #35 back cover, click for a much larger view
Back #35
MAD #35 front cover, click for a much larger view
Front #35

It took another 27 years before Irving Schild dared to do it again with issue #254.

MAD #254 back cover, click for a much larger view
Back #254
MAD #254 front cover, click for a much larger view
Front #254

Mort Drucker showed a full Johnny Carson studio with issue #266.

MAD #266 back cover, click for a much larger view
Back #266
MAD #266 front cover, click for a much larger view
Front #266

Vincent Di Fate presented a Star Wars landscape
with a little MAD thrown in on MAD Star Wars Spectacular #1.

MAD Star Wars Spectacular #1 back cover, click for a much larger view
Back
MAD Star Wars Spectacular #1 front cover, click for a much larger view
Front

Richard Williams also showed Jabba The Hutt's tail
extending to the back of issue #354. Good catch, José!

MAD #354 back cover, click for a much larger view
Back #354
MAD #354 front cover, click for a much larger view
Front #354

Mark Fredrickson not only put a donut in Molly's hand on the back cover
of issue #514. He put a hotdog in Mike's hand on the inside-front cover,
a first in 60 years of MAD covers!

All three MAD #514 covers, click for a much larger view
All Three #514 Covers

Mark Fredrickson gummed up Alfred's works for MAD's 70th anniversary on #28.

MAD #28 back cover, click for a much larger view
Back #28
MAD #28 front cover, click for a much larger view
Front #28

Sergio Aragones made MAD #600 the ultimate worksite.

MAD #600 back cover, click for a much larger view
Back #600
MAD #600 front cover, click for a much larger view
Front #600