CATALOG RECORD

Mad #11

EC · Series began 1952 · May 1954

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Dates

Cover date: May 1954
On sale: February 1, 1954
Pages: 36

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Editions and covers

Original edition
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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.

Publisher’s description

Featuring a cover by Basil Wolverton and his classic article "MAD Reader!" Plus a spoof of Flash Gordon, another installment of "Dragged Net!", Harvey Kurtzman & Jack Davis' classic "Murder the Husband!" and so much more!

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)