CATALOG RECORD

Mad #42

EC · Series began 1952 · November 1958

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Dates

Cover date: November 1958
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Kelly Freas, Wally Wood, Bob Clarke, Norman Mingo, George Woodbridge, Don Martin, Dave Berg, Jules Feiffer, Mort Drucker, Joe Orlando, Larry Malemaninks: Kelly Freas, Wally Wood, Bob Clarke, Norman Mingo, George Woodbridge, Don Martin, Dave Berg, Jules Feiffer, Mort Drucker, Joe Orlando, Larry Malemancolors: Kelly Freasscript: Dee Caruso, Bill Levine, Al Feldstein, Tom Koch, Don Martin, Dave Berg, Milton Schafer, Danny Kaye, J. Rothenberg, Jules Feiffer, Ernie Kovacs, Paul Laikin, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Frank Jacobs, Albert Meglinletters: Jules Feiffer, Wally Wood

Stories

What If You Did What They Told You On TV? · Rush Right Out Dept. · 2 pages
How doing the things that tv commercials suggest will not get the results you expect.
MAD's 1958 Pigskin Preview · Unnecessary Roughness Dept. · 5 pages
Parody of magazine college football season previews, along with fake definitions of football terms.
A Nameless Story · 2 pages
A boy saves a bird from a hunter...then eats the bird.
Big Cars · Ask The Man Who Parks One Dept. · 2 pages
Solutions to parking and congestion problems caused by big cars.
I'm Five! · 3 pages
Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.
Not-So-Far-From-Wrong Spelling Errors · E Before I Except After Q Dept. · 2 pages
Spelling errors that tell the story better than the correct spelling would.
25c MAD Children's Books · 4 pages
Parodies of children's books but on adult subjects, written and illustrated in the style of Golden Books.
Sick Sick Sick · Out of The Freud And Into The Feiffer Dept. · 3 pages
Excerpts from the book.
Strangely Believe It! · 1 pages
Parody of Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
MAD Mood Music · Let's Look At The Record Dept. · 2 pages
Popular songs arranged into phony albums of music for specific moods.
Credits For The Common Man · Honorable Mention Dept. · 4 pages
Everyday occupations with credits for all the people who helped in the background, in the style of movie credits. Also, suggested "professional" names for persons in various occupations.
Baseball Report · 3 pages
Wally interviews the official team heckler for the San Francisco Giants.
On The Bowery · 1 pages
Two bums who have been ingesting Sterno find an unusual way to light a cigarette.
Houses To Match Your Personality · Frame of Mind Dept. · 2 pages
Strange home styles to fit various personality types.
Scenes We Never Got To See · The Phase On The Cutting Room Floor Dept. · 4 pages
The supposed final frame cut from famous movie scenes.
The Great Bank Robbery · 1 pages
A bank robbery goes wrong when no one cares about the hostage.
Bullet of Alfred E. Neuman University · 4 pages
Where They Spent Their Vacations · 0 pages
Vacation spots paired with various occupations.
Does She... Or Doesn't She... · 1 pages
Parody of Miss Clairol hair coloring ad (Miss Clairold Date-Ager Kit), featuring a kit to age your date so his appearance matches yours.

Characters

Alfred E. Neuman

Reprinted in

The Worst from MAD (1958), The Mad Frontier (1975), The Completely Mad Don Martin (1974), More Trash from Mad (1958), Mad about the Fifties (1997), Mad for Decades (2007)