Dates
- Cover date
- May 1954
- On sale
- February 1, 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
pencils: Basil Wolverton, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elderinks: Basil Wolverton, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elderletters: Ben Odascript: Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, Charles Romancolors: Marie Severin
Stories
- Flesh Garden! · 8 pages
Flesh defeats aliens and the champion of King Mong but refuses to return to Earth.
- MAD Reader! · 6 pages
Portraits of MAD readers.
- Operation Under-the-Ground Chapter 87 [Chapter 5] · 1 pages
Five Fingers is tortured.
- Murder the Husband! · 3 pages
A man murders his lover's husband but also manages to sink the rowboat he and the husband are in.
- Murder the Story! · 3 pages
Humorous rescripting of a crime story.
- Dragged Net! · 7 pages
Parody of the crime television series, Dragnet.
Reprinted in
Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (1970), The Complete Color Mad (1986), The Mad Archives (2002), Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (1997), The Mad Reader (1954), The Mad Reader (2002), Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (2015), Mad (2018), Mad about the Fifties (1997), Mad for Decades (2007), Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood (2015)