Dates
- Cover date
- April-May 1953
- On sale
- January 9, 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Superduperman! · 8 pages
Superduperman defeats Captain Marbles by causing Marbles to punch himself out, but Superduperman still can't make it with Lois.
- Flob Was a Slob! · 7 pages
Ramona is engaged to slobby, boring Flob but is smitten by the newcomer Rackstraw and follows Rackstraw into a life of crime.
- The Parole · 1 pages
Tumblers is temporarily paroled from prison to help free someone from a bank vault, but the police don't hold up their end of the bargain and he is reimprisoned.
- Let’s Deplore Your Mind · 1 pages
A fake letters column with Cosmo answering the letters.
- Robin Hood! · 6 pages
After robbing a sheriff's posse, Robin Hood and his gang rob Big John and Sparkie of their last two cents.
- Shadow! · 7 pages
Lamont kills Margo to preserve the secret of his identity.
Characters
Reprinted in
Mad (1952), The Brothers Mad (1958), The Complete Color Mad (1986), Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (1997), The Mad Archives (2002), Utterly Mad (1956), The Mad Reader (1954), The Ridiculously Expensive Mad (1969), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (1970), A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics (1981), From Aargh! to Zap! Harvey Kurtzman’s Visual History of the Comics (1991), Mad about the Fifties (1997), The Mad Reader (2002), Mad About Super Heroes (2002), Mad about Super Heroes (2006), Mad for Decades (2007), The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics (2009), Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood (2015)