Dates
- Cover date
- December 1958
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- I Never Carry More Than $50 in Cash · American Expense Account Cheques · 1 pages
Parody of American Express Travelers Cheques ads.
- MAD's M.V.B.T.A. Awards · The Double-Play's the Thing Dept. · 2 pages
Acting awards for baseball players hamming it up for fans and the camera during games.
- The End of Comics · 4 pages
Possible final strips for when newspapers have to eliminate comics to use the space for more educational features.
- Future Magazine Mergers · 3 pages
Unlikely magazine titles for when magazines merge.
- Scenes We'd Like To See: The Frogmen · 1 pages
Enemy frogmen successfully blow up each other's ships and are then stranded mid-ocean.
- The Electricians · 2 pages
Two building maintenance men try to find why a toaster won't work.
- If Hollywood Directors Staged...Advertising Photos · 3 pages
Parodies of ads depicted in the styles of directors: Alfred Hitchcock; Elia Kazan; Cecil B. DeMille; Sam Katzman.
- Pushcarts · Food For Thought Dept. · 3 pages
History of merchandising by pushcarts and projection to a future where stores are so large that vendors sell by pushcarts within the stores.
- Health Chairs · Relax in Discomfort Dept. · 2 pages
Taking the fad of reclining chairs to extremes.
- The MAD Halloween Trick-Or-Treatment · Hobble Them Goblins Dept. · 2 pages
A list of revenges against common Halloween pranks.
- The MAD Treasury of Unknown Poetry · 2 pages
Parodies of famous poems.
- Special Lamps for Reading Magazines · Light of Your LIFE Dept. · 2 pages
Reading lamps designed in styles to match popular magazine content.
- Misleading Headlines · 2 pages
Headlines that purposefully do not describe the underlying newspaper articles.
- The New Baby · 2 pages
Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.
- Coming Musicals · And Then I Wrote Dept. · 3 pages
Broadway musicals based on unlikely source material.
- The End Of A Perfect Day · 1 pages
A man has trained his dog to fetch him everything...including his wife.
- Music Report · 3 pages
Wally interviews a man who tests the truth of song lyrics and watches him demonstrate "It's a treat to beat your feet in the Mississippi Mud."
- Payhouse 90 · 1 pages
Ficticious filming schedule for tv show, showing that it mostly consists of commercials.
- The Smithshop · Traumatic Workshop Dept. · 2 pages
The ultimate in the trend towards combined home woodworking shop tools, parodying the Shopsmith.
- Woodlore · 3 pages
A guidebook to (phony) dangerous plants and animals of the woods.
- The Bathtub Admiral · 1 pages
Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.
- Down Lovers' Lane · 1 pages
Two couples carve a heart; one on a tree and one on a forehead.
- Proverbs Revisited · 0 pages
Common proverbs with twist endings.
- Look Mom - No More Cavities! · Crust Gumpaste · 1 pages
Parody of ad for Crest Toothpaste, with painting signed as "Norman Rocknroll."
Characters
Reprinted in
The Worst from MAD (1958), Mad about the Fifties (1997), More Trash from Mad (1958), The Completely Mad Don Martin (1974), The Mad Frontier (1975), Mad (2018), Mad Follies (1963), The Ridiculously Expensive Mad (1969), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (1970), Dave Berg's Mad Trash (1977), Dave Berg's Mad Trash (1981), Mad for Decades (2007)