CATALOG RECORD

Mad #16

EC · Series began 1952 · October 1954

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Dates

Cover date: October 1954
Pages: 36

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

script: Harvey Kurtzman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellowpencils: Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder, Jack Davis, Wally Woodinks: Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder, Jack Davis, Wally Woodletters: Ben Odacolors: Marie Severin, Monte Michael Moore

Stories

Shermlock Shomes in the Hound of The Basketballs! · 8 pages
Shermlock captures the hound that has cursed the Basketball family.
Newspapers! · 7 pages
Various fake newspaper stories and ads.
Untitled · 1 pages
An analysis of the Egyptian political situation -- in hieroglyphics.
Restaurant! · 6 pages
The deprivations the Sturdleys suffer at a "typical" Sunday restaurant outing.
Wreck of The Hesperus · 7 pages
Relates the wreck of the ship Hesperus on the reef at Norman's Woe.

Reprinted in

The Brothers Mad (1958), The Complete Color Mad (1986), The Mad Archives (2002), The Bedside Mad (1959), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (1970), Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (1997), Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (2015), The Mad Reader (1954), Son of Mad (1959), The Bedside Mad (1973), Son of Mad (1974), The Mad Reader (2002), The Son of Mad (2003), Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood (2015)