The Complete First
Six Issues of Mad - 1985

• Publisher: Russ Cochran
  

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• Introduction by Russ Cochran
• Excerpts of John Benson and Bhob Stewart interviews with Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Gaines appear between issues.

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• Mad #1 -- Oct. - Nov. 1952
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Mad Mumblings - "Greetings, you MAD readers!"
  • Hoohah! (Jack Davis art)
  • Blobs! (Wally Wood art)
  • Enter Cosmo McMoon! (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Crow Vadis? (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Ganefs! (Will Elder art)
  • Varmint! (John Severin art)
• Mad #2 -- Dec. 1952 - Jan. 1953
  • Cover Artist: Jack Davis
  • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Ad for Weird Fantasy (Al Feldstein)
  • Hex! (Jack Davis art)
  • Melvin! (John Severin art)
  • Lady-In-Mascara (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Calling Cosmo McMoon! (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Gookum! (Wally Wood art)
  • Mole! (Will Elder art and idea)
• Mad #3 -- Jan. - Feb. 1953
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Mad Mumblings
  • Dragged Net! (Will Elder art)
  • Sheik of Araby! (John Severin art)
  • Rookie Gladiator (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • The Dandelion Caper (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • V-Vampires! (Wally Wood art)
  • Lone Stranger! (Jack Davis art)
• Mad #4 -- April - May 1953
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Mad Mumblings
  • Superduperman! (Wally Wood art)
  • Flob was a Slob! (Jack Davis art)
  • The Parole (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Let's Deplore Your Mind (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Robin Hood! (John Severin art)
  • Shadow! (Will Elder art)
• Mad #5 -- June - July 1953
  • Cover Artist: Will Elder
  • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • The "Publisher of the Issue"
    William M. Gaines (Alias Melvin) (Al Feldstein art)
    (written by Al Feldstein and William M. Gaines)
  • Outer Sanctum! (Will Elder art)
  • Black and Blue Hawks! (Wally Wood art)
  • Exam (John Severin art)
  • Mad Mumblings
  • Miltie of the Mounties! (John Severin art)
  • Kane Keen! - Private Eye (Jack Davis art)
• Mad #6 -- Aug. - Sept. 1953
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • No Mad / Subscription Ad (Jack Davis art)
  • Teddy and the Pirates! (Wally Wood art)
  • Melvin of the Apes! (John Severin art)
  • Hevo the Great (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Mad Mumblings
  • Casey at the Bat! (Jack Davis art)
  • Ping Pong! (Will Elder art)
  
  
• ad for The Complete EC Library
• ad for the four-volume Complete Color MAD reprints

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• Entire issues written by Harvey Kurtzman except
  Crow Vadis?, Calling Cosmo McMoon!, Let's Deplore Your Mind, The Parole, and Exam written by Jerry DeFuccio
  and the text of Casey at the Bat! by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
• Color by Marie Severin
• Article Lettering by Ben Oda