CATALOG RECORD

Mad #12

EC · Series began 1952 · June 1954

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Dates

Cover date: June 1954
On sale: March 23, 1954
Pages: 36

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

script: Harvey Kurtzmanpencils: Bill Elder, Bernie Krigstein, Jack Davis, Wally Woodinks: Bill Elder, Bernie Krigstein, Jack Davis, Wally Woodletters: Ben Odacolors: Marie Severin

Stories

Starchie · 8 pages
Bottleneck frames Starchie so that Starchie goes to prison and Bottleneck can take over the girls and rackets at the high school.
From Eternity Back to Here! · 7 pages
Prewitt will not fight, no matter what, and Sgt. Warden and Mrs. Homes drown on the beach.
Operation Under-the-Ground [Chapter 6] · 1 pages
Five Fingers is killed and the story is farshimmelt.
3-Dimensions! · 6 pages
A phony description of how 3-D comics are made and a look at what can go wrong.
Mark Trade! · 7 pages
Parody of the comic strip Mark Trail, finding Mark sick and tired of nature.

Reprinted in

The Complete Color Mad (1986), Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (1997), The Mad Archives (2002), The Mad Reader (1954), Inside Mad (1955), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (1970), Mad about the Fifties (1997), The Mad Reader (2002), Mad about Comic Strips (2003), Mad for Decades (2007), Amazing 3-D Comics! (2011), Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood (2015)