Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #13

Dates

Cover date

1974

Pages

100

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Cliché Movie Scenes Brought Up to Date · Re-Flicks Action Dept. · 3 pages
• A Mad Glance at a Congressman's Outgoing Mail · Franking-ly Speaking Dept. · 3 pages
• A Mad Look at Wars of Yore · Assault and Battering Dept. · 4 pages
• Mad's Famous Department Store Clerks' Course · 4 pages
• Mad Sickie Stickies · 4 pages
• One Day in a Tenement · 1 pages

  A struggling street musician provides for his family in an unexpected manner.

• True Fat · Grit and Bear It Dept. · 6 pages

  Parody of the film "True Grit"; a spoiled brat teams up with a drunken marshal and a dimwitted Texas Ranger to track down the man who murdered her father.

• Mad's Modernized College Entrance Exam · Ask a Stupid Question Dept. · 3 pages

  A college entrance exam is rewritten to appeal to various agendas and splinter groups.

• One Day Downtown · 2 pages

  A man gets a karmic response for stepping on an insect.

• A Mad Look at Two High School Generations · Minor Adjustment Dept. · 3 pages

  Comparing then and now, from the forties to the seventies, featuring the topics, movies; clothes; smoking; war; hair; school authority; family car & the school paper.

• The Lighter Side of Money · 5 pages

  Satirizing civilization's obsession with money.

• Spy Vs. Spy · 1 pages

  The Black Spy booby-traps his observation headquarters.

• Mad's Condonence Cards for Life's Other Tragedies · Postal Mortems Dept. · 2 pages

  Sympathy cards for less than tragic circumstances.

• If "Peanuts" Were a Weekly TV Series · 4 pages

  If the Charlie Brown specials were turned into a weekly TV series, the shows concepts would be: Young Doctor Brown; Peanuts Squad; Peanuts Place; Charlie Brown, Attorney for the Defenseless; The Chuck Brown Show.

• Sports Cars We'd Like to See · Auto-Suggestion Dept. · 3 pages

  A series of gags featuring wacky cars designed by the insane mind of Basil Wolverton.

• Makeus Sickby M.D. · Sterile Cuckoos Dept. · 6 pages

  A parody of the TV series, "Marcus Welby, M.D."

• One Morning in the Life of an Optician · 1 pages

  An optician accidentally dislodges the eye of a former patient.

• I Remember, I Remember the Wondrous Woodstock Music Fair · 3 pages

  Satirical remembrance, in verse, of the Woodstock Music Festival.

• Mad's "Foreign Film Producer of the Year" · Rib A Dubbed Dub Dept. · 4 pages

  Mad interviews a film producer who is more interested in the quality of his profits than the quality of his films.

• 21st Century Outdoors Magazine · We Will Bury Us! Dept. · 6 pages

  A mock magazine focusing on outdoor life and man's involvement in destroying it.

• The Fitting · 1 pages

  A man gets fitted for glasses.

• A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at the U. S. Congress · 2 pages

  The antics behind the scenes at Congress is depicted.

• You Know You're Really on Your Own When... · Defamation of Independence Dept. · 2 pages

  Examples of people experiencing responsibilities they aren't ready to accept yet.

• The Lighter Side of Family Gatherings · 5 pages

  Cynical look at family reunions and relations.

• Spy vs. Spy · 1 pages

  Black Spy falls for White Spy's rubber club trap.

• More Up-to-Date Health & Safety Songs for Children · Tunes of Glory Dept. · 3 pages

  Songs for children promoting good health and safety practices.

• Once Again in Front of a Novelty Shop · 1 pages

  There's more than one way to get someone with a lapel trick.

• Airplot · Coffee, Tea and Milked Dept. · 7 pages

  A satire of the movie Airport.

• Ditched in the South Pacific · 1 pages

  A man adrift in the ocean inflates a raft.