CATALOG RECORD

Mad #2

EC · Series began 1952 · December 1952-January 1953

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Dates

Cover date: December 1952-January 1953
On sale: September 17, 1952
Pages: 36

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

script: Harvey Kurtzman, Charles Romanpencils: Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, John Severin, Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, Bill Elderinks: Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, John Severin, Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, Bill Eldercolors: Marie Severinletters: Ben Oda

Stories

Hex! · 8 pages
Casey's team wins the pennant but loses Casey to the Old Dame.
Melvin! · 7 pages
Melvin escapes from the Ookaballakonga tribe with the help of the jungle animals but the tribe shrinks Boy's head.
Lady-In-Mascara · 1 pages
Mo Wheeler believes he's solving a crime but the Lady leads him to a morning radio interview instead.
Calling Cosmo McMoon! · 1 pages
Cosmo discovers a baby who is blending all radio broadcasts into a single program.
Gookum! · 6 pages
A Martian escapes the Gookum on his home planet only to find it apparently exists on Earth also.
Mole! · 7 pages
Melvin is captured during a bank robbery and continually digs his way out of jail.

Reprinted in

The Complete Color Mad (1986), Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (1997), The Mad Archives (2002), Utterly Mad (1956), Mad about the Fifties (1997), Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (2015)