CATALOG RECORD

Mad #1

EC · Series began 1952 · October-November 1952

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Dates

Cover date: October-November 1952
On sale: July 10, 1952
Pages: 36

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Facsimile reprints exist

Mad 1 (Facsimile Edition) (2024), Mad Magazine (Facsimile Edition) (2026). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.

Creators

script: Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Gaines, Al Feldsteinpencils: Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Al Feldstein, Bill Elder, John Severininks: Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Al Feldstein, Bill Elder, John Severincolors: Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severinletters: Ben Oda

Stories

Hoohah! · 8 pages
Two youngsters run out of gas and enter a house they think is haunted.
Blobs! · 7 pages
Alfred outlines a terrible thought he has about the end of humanity.
Enter Cosmo McMoon! · 1 pages
Cosmo solves(?) a missing person case.
Crow Vadis? · 1 pages
Story of how a Roman soldier invented the chalkboard eraser.
Ganefs! · 6 pages
A perfect crime is hatched but Bumble fumbles.
Varmint! · 7 pages
Textron is hunting the killer of Melvin and kills every suspect.

Reprinted in

The Complete Color Mad (1986), Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (1997), Millennium Edition: Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad 1 (2000), The Mad Archives (2002), Mad 1 (Facsimile Edition) (2024), Mad Magazine (Facsimile Edition) (2026), Mad (2018), Son of Mad (1959), Son of Mad (1974), The Son of Mad (2003), Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood (2015)