CATALOG RECORD

Mad #39

EC · Series began 1952 · May 1958

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Dates

Cover date: May 1958
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: C. C. Beall Jr., Bob Clarke, Norman Mingo, Carl Klein, Romeo Serry, Wally Wood, Dave Berg, Don Martin, Joe Orlando, George Woodbridge, Mort Drucker, Kelly Freas, Larry Malemaninks: C. C. Beall Jr., Bob Clarke, Norman Mingo, Carl Klein, Romeo Serry, Wally Wood, Dave Berg, Don Martin, Joe Orlando, George Woodbridge, Mort Drucker, Kelly Freas, Larry Malemancolors: C. C. Beall Jr.script: Frank Jacobs, Al Feldstein, Dave Berg, George Pope Morris, William Shakespeare, Paul Laikin, Paul Krassner, E. Nelson Bridwell, Tom Koch, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Don Martin

Stories

Typewriters To Fit Your Trade · The Key To Success Dept. · 2 pages
Several typewriters with specialized keys to make typing faster for various trades.
How To Make America's Kids...Science Conscious · Scramble Them Eggheads Dept. · 4 pages
Ideas to incorporate science lessons into various media.
Scratchpad Doodles · Memo Randoms Dept. · 2 pages
Supposed doodles from the desks of famous people, with pop psychoanalysis.
The Suburbs Are On Their Way Out! · Home Is Where The House Is Dept. · 3 pages
Discussion of the theory that the suburbs will keep moving so far out and get so crowded that eventually people will move back into the cities.
Woodman, Spare That Tree! · 2 pages
Illustrated version of the famous poem, with a twist ending.
Shakespeare Up-To-Date · The Bard of Birdland Dept. · 1 pages
The balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet, Act II, Scene II, along with a modern beat poetry version.
Sneaky Advertisements · 2 pages
New places to use subliminal advertising.
TV Scenes We'd Like To See · 2 pages
Scenes from the following tv shows with unusual outcomes: You Asked For It; a Bob Hope special; Steve Allen Show.
Opera Record Albums · High "C", Low Neckline Dept. · 2 pages
Phony record album covers for opera, drawn in the style of paperback novels.
High School Paper · Etaoin Shrdlu Dept. · 2 pages
A parody of a typical high school paper.
Commemorative Stamps · Postage Overdue Dept. · 2 pages
Phony U.S. postage stamps for people and events that would never be commemorated.
Big Big Earth · 3 pages
Several roving correspondents interview people across the country during their spring cleaning.
Accidental Inventions · Patent Pending Dept. · 2 pages
Inventions over the ages that were not quite what the inventors had in mind.
Party Games · Play's The Thing Dept. · 4 pages
Instructions for three impossible, illegal, and dangerous party games.
Why I Changed My Job · Opportunity Knocks Dept. · 2 pages
An accountant's story of the road to failure as he changes jobs and takes the fall for the boss's embezzling.
The Window Trimmer · 1 pages
While dressing a mannequin, a window trimmer is assaulted.
MAD Dogs And Their Owners · How Now Bow-Wow Dept. · 2 pages
Another take on the age-old idea that people and their dogs look alike.
A Page From The MAD Phone Book · The Line Is Dizzy Dept. · 1 pages
A page of Cowznofski listings from a fake phone book.
The Saturday Evening Pest · Post-Mortem Dept. · 6 pages
Satire of the magazine The Saturday Evening Post.
Movies' Secret Sponsors · 0 pages
Movie titles paired with unlikely advertisers, such as "Noah's Ark" - Nabisco Animal Crackers.
MAD Windshield Stickers · 1 pages
Car windshield stickers that look like official signs that would allow free parking.

Characters

Alfred E. NeumanJerry LewisElvis PresleyFrank SinatraBing CrosbyLiberaceJudy GarlandJayne Mansfield

Reprinted in

More Trash from Mad (1958), The Ides of Mad (1961), Fighting Mad (2004), The Worst from MAD (1958), Mad (2018), Mad about the Fifties (1997), Mad for Decades (2007)