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Cover of Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #36
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CATALOG RECORD

Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #36

EC · Series began 1970 · Fall 1981

Dates

Cover date
Fall 1981
Pages
100

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #36 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Original edition

    Barcode 0709893408013 · shared with another edition

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  • $1.50

    Barcode 0709893408013 · shared with another edition

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Creators

pencils: Bob Clarke, Jack Rickard, Charles Schulz, Walt Kelly, Ken Ernst, Mort Walker, Mell Lazarus, Wally Wood, Sergio Aragonés, Don Martin, Al Jaffeeinks: Bob Clarke, Jack Rickard, Charles Schulz, Walt Kelly, Ken Ernst, Mort Walker, Mell Lazarus, Wally Wood, Sergio Aragonés, Don Martin, Al Jaffeecolors: Bob Clarkeletters: Bob Clarke, Sergio Aragonésscript: Arnoldo Franchioni, Charles Schulz, Walt Kelly, Allen Saunders, Mort Walker, Mell Lazarus, Paul Krassner, Frank Jacobs, Sergio Aragonés, Al Jaffee, Larry Siegel, Don Martin, E. Nelson Bridwell, Earle Doud, Don Edwing, Lou Silverstone, Gary Belkin, Tom Koch

Stories

  • One Day in the Comics Suburbs · Mad · 1 pages
  • Comic Strips They'd Really Like to Do · 4 pages
  • If Comic Strip Characters Answered Those Little Ads · 3 pages
  • The Mad "Comic" Opera · 6 pages

    A parody of Broadway musicals using comic strip characters. Rex Morgan has kidnapped Annie and intends to remove her unique eyes, but Sandy leads Dick Tracy and Tarzan to a rescue, which is aided by Snuffy Smith.

  • More Powerful Than a Locomotive ... · 2 pages
  • Adult TV Cartoons · 3 pages
  • Will Success Spoil Charlie Brown? · 4 pages
  • Don Martin Looks at Spider-Man · 3 pages
  • Comicland · 5 pages
  • If Comic Characters Were Psychoanalyzed · 4 pages
  • A Mad Look at Super Heroes · 4 pages
  • Nansy · 2 pages
  • Misery Is a Cold Hot Dog · 4 pages
  • If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Ordinary People · 4 pages
  • If Famous Authors Wrote the Comics · 4 pages

    Premise: what if Paddy Chayefsky wrote Donald Duck? Gilbert & Sullivan, Dick Tracy? Rudyard Kipling, Peanuts? Walt Whitman, The Katzenjammer Kids? Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rex Morgan, M.D.? Tennessee Williams, Little Orphan Annie? Mickey Spillane, Nancy? And Edgar Allan Poe, Dennis the Menace?

  • If the World's Great Painters Drew the Comics · 4 pages
  • A Mad Portfolio of Appropriate Comic Strip Sound Effects · 3 pages
  • Future Educational Comic Pamphlets · 5 pages
  • A Mad Look at Superman · 2 pages
  • If "Peanuts" Were a Weekly TV Series · 4 pages
  • The Comic Strip Characters' Christmas Party · 2 pages
  • Comics for Publications That Don't Have Comics · 4 pages
  • If Comic Strip Artists Drew Editorial Cartoons · 2 pages
  • Tell-Tale Comic Strip Balloons · 3 pages
  • A Super Opportunity · 1 pages
  • If Comic Strip Characters Were as Old as Their Strips · 4 pages
  • A Mad Look at Batman · 2 pages
  • The End of Comics · 4 pages
  • Obituraries for Comic Strip Characters · 3 pages
  • Superman's Super-Hernia · 1 pages

Characters

Archie AndrewsVeronica LodgeJughead JonesBruce WayneBatmanClark KentSupermanDennis the MenacePrincess DianaWonder WomanAlice MitchellLois LaneHenry MitchellDonald DuckBarry AllenThe FlashThe SpiritDenny ColtJimmy OlsenHuey DuckDewey DuckLouie DuckScrooge McDuckMickey MousePopeyeBilly BatsonPerry WhiteGoofyCharlie BrownTarzan

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