Dates
- Cover date
- May 1955
- On sale
- 1955
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
script: Harvey Kurtzman, Charles Romanpencils: Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Wally Wood, Jack Davisinks: Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Wally Wood, Jack Davisletters: Ben Odacolors: Marie Severin
Stories
- Important Announcement · 1 pages
- Gopo Gossum! · 6 pages
Gopo mistakenly leads the swamp dwellers into politics and disaster.
- Scenes We'd...Like to See! · 9 pages
Typical climax scenes from various movie genres, with untypical endings.
- Ripup's Believe It or Don't · 3 pages
- The Barefoot Nocountessa! · 7 pages
Harry narrates the story of the Nocountessa, as she marries a series of rich men.
- Here Is the Very Important Announcement · Mad Magazine · 1 pages
Announcement that this is the last issue of MAD as a comic book and the next issue will begin publication as a 25 cent black and white magazine.
Reprinted in
Mad Strikes Back (1955), The Complete Color Mad (1986), Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (1997), The Mad Archives (2002), The Bedside Mad (1959), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (1970), Mad Strikes Back (2002), Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood (2015), The Bedside Mad (1973), The Best of Pogo (1982)