![Cover of Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #38](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zGoAAeSwVxBohRah/s-l225.jpg)
Dates
- Cover date
- Spring 1982
- Pages
- 100
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #38 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
Creators
Stories
- Early One Morning in the Near Future · 1 pages
A man must hack through the thick covering of junk in order to fish the river below.
- Rockhead · 7 pages
- The Mad Baseball Primer · Learning the Score Dept. · 3 pages
Primer on what to expect when going to the ballpark to see a game.
- Don Martin on the Golf Course · 2 pages
Golfers experience odd occurrences on the links.
- You Know You're Really a Football Fan When... · 2 pages
Examples of behavior that identifies a person as an obsessed football fan.
- One Day at the Ocean · 1 pages
Surf's up for a ship wrecked survivor.
- The Mad Game of Basebrawl · Diamond and the Rough Dept. · 6 pages
Altering the rules of baseball to make it more violent and therefore more exciting.
- What Coaches Say... · Switch Pitch Dept. · 3 pages
Things sports coaches say about their player in public, compared to what they say in private.
- A Psalm for a Sabbath Morning · Tee-Ology Dept. · 2 pages
A psalm dedicated to Sunday golfers.
- The Mad Ice Hockey Primer · Sport 'n' Blood Dept. · 3 pages
Examination of the sport of ice hockey, presented in the form of a child's reading primer.
- A Mad Look at Hunting · The Forest's Prime Evil Dept. · 4 pages
Various hunter types and hunting situations are satirized.
- Sports Typography · 2 pages
Text characters laid out to visually tell the story.
- The Hunter · 1 pages
A hunter tests a new moose call.
- Surfing · Only For the Board-Minded Dept. · 6 pages
Satirical look at the sport of surfing.
- Howard at the Mike · Sports-Blaster Dept. · 3 pages
An ode, patterned after Ernest Lawrence Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat", to the importance of announcer Howard Cosell to the popularity of ABC's Monday Night Football.
- In the Locker Room · 2 pages
A football coach tries to improve a player's football knowledge.
- The Little League Hall of Fame · 3 pages
A Hall Of Fame for Little League ballplayers.
- A Mad Look at the Joys of Scuba Diving · Glub-Glub Dept. · 7 pages
A satirical look at the sport of scuba diving.
- A Sports Fan's Garden of Verses · Athletic Pentameter Dept. · 4 pages
Poems based on various sports themes. Poems included are: Broadway Joe; Skis; The Sportsman's Hour; Doubleday; I Must Go Out to the Track Again; Lew Alcindor; On the Road to Baltimore; Come Bowl with Me; and The Hometown Goalie.
- The Mad Gun Owners and Other Small Bores Primer · Nuts With Bolts Dept. · 3 pages
Satirical look at guns, gun owners and hunters, presented in a children's primer format.
- On a Saturday Afternoon · 1 pages
A man spends a less-than-successful afternoon skydiving.
- A Nostalgic Look at Sandlot Baseball · Hits, Runs and An Era Dept. · 4 pages
A look back at how boys played baseball before organized Little League baseball.
- Mad Magazine Introduces 43-man Squamish · There's a Soccer Born Every Minute Dept. · 3 pages
Mad creates a new sport, a combination of polo, soccer and gang fighting.
- A Mad Look at Bicycling · Chain Reaction Dept. · 2 pages
Examples of the bad side of riding a bike.
- Outdoor Sports Indoors · Homebody-Building Dept. · 4 pages
Methods of playing outdoor sports inside, since urban sprawl has eliminated going outside to play.
- The Sports Spectators' Hall of Fame · Athletic Supporters Dept. · 3 pages
Busts of fictional sports fans who represent specific types of fans.
- One Night at the Fights · 2 pages
The corner men of a professional fighter get a little too mechanical in their jobs.
- The Longest Yardbird · Reynolds' Rap Dept. · 7 pages
In a parody of the film "The Longest Yard," a sadistic prison warden forces a prisoner to join his prison football team.
- The Finish · Race Riot Dept. · 1 pages
An auto race ends badly.
- One Day at the Beach · 1 pages
A surfer proves to be more graceful on the water than out of it.