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Dates
- Cover date
- Summer 1990
- Pages
- 100
Editions and covers
Creators
Stories
- The Right Stiff · Blast-Offul Dept. · 7 pages
In a parody of the film "The Right Stuff," the story of how the United States space program got off the ground in spite of itself is told.
- The Mad Nasty Book, Volume Five · Along the Snide Lines Dept. · 3 pages
- Time Flies...Time Drags... · The Eerie of Relativity Dept. · 2 pages
Examples of how circumstances can change your perception of the passage of time.
- The Lighter Side of... · 5 pages
Humorous situations involving anxious mothers, superstitions, teenage phrases, the post office, income taxes, relatives, senior citizens, education, recipes, the movies, fighting, eating out, home remedies, and moving out.
- Additions to the Dictionary · Neumanclature Dept. · 1 pages
List of suggestions for new word additions to the dictionary, complete with definitions.
- A Mad Look at Cold Sufferers · Here's Looking Achoo Dept. · 2 pages
Examples of annoying habits of sick people.
- Here's a New Mad Look at the Shape of Things! We Call Them... Mad Turn-Arounds! · Border Lines Dept. · 2 pages
Odd shapes with humorous text wrapping around the entire shape. Each side describes the shape as a different object when viewed from that angle.
- Academy Awards for Teachers · Class Act Dept. · 4 pages
Awards for less-than-desirable behavior by teachers.
- Spy vs. Spy · 1 pages
The Black Spy builds a makeshift trapeze to swing up to the White Spy's window and steal a bag of plans but the flagpoles outside the White Spy's window are booby traps designed to break the trapeze.
- Mad's Helpful Hints on Breaking Up with a Girl · Curing a Splitting Headache Dept. · 4 pages
Methods of ending a relationship so that you're not the villain.
- Mad's Easy Step-by-Step "Break Dance" Chart · Loco-Motion Dept. · 2 pages
- Poems... To Inspire You and Bring Hope to Your Heart and Make You Feel a Whole Lot Better · Cheery-Odes Dept. · 2 pages
- Bats-Man · 6 pages
Parody of the television show "Batman"; tired of his double identity ruining his love life, Sparrow attempts to murder Bats-Man.
- Bat Boy and Rubin! · 7 pages
Bat Boy and Rubin eliminate the gangs in Cosmopolis, but the killer is still at large.
- Wishful Thinking · Punishmental Images Dept. · 3 pages
Examples of people wishing for dire consequences for other people doing annoying things.
- Spy vs. Spy · 1 pages
The Black Spy steals an experimental helicopter helmet from the White Spy.
- The Mad Speedometer · Smiles per Hour Dept. · 2 pages
- Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself TV Guide Listings · Blank Accounts Dept. · 2 pages
Generic template of a typical TV Guide page with an assortment of fill-ins for the empty spaces.
- Simple Games and Pastimes for the School Drop-Out · Yuks for Clucks Dept. · 1 pages
- What Parents Think...and What Kids Think... · Generation Slap Dept. · 3 pages
Examples of situations from the perspective of an adult and a teen.
- Mad's Modern Believe It or Nuts! · RIP, Please! Dept. · 1 pages
Parody of Ripley's Believe It or Not.
- What Is a Hang-up? · Shoot the Quirks Dept. · 2 pages
Essay on human behavior quirks.
- The Lighter Side of ... · 5 pages
The humorous aspects of movies, school, shopping, insomnia, convertible sofas, worry, job hunting, the law, mothers, the blues, appreciation, computers, salaries, and empathy.
- Not-So-New-Hart · Inn-Sipid TV Dept. · 6 pages
In a parody of the TV series "Newhart," a terrifically low-key man owns a quaint bed and breakfast with a collection of quaint characters.