CATALOG RECORD

Mad #47

EC · Series began 1952 · June 1959

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Dates

Cover date: June 1959
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Kelly Freas, Norman Mingo, Mort Drucker, Bob Clarke, Don Martin, George Woodbridge, Dave Berg, Wally Wood, Joe Orlandoinks: Kelly Freas, Norman Mingo, Mort Drucker, Bob Clarke, Don Martin, George Woodbridge, Dave Berg, Wally Wood, Joe Orlandocolors: Kelly Freasscript: Al Feldstein, Charles Atlas, Paul Laikin, Frank Jacobs, Don Martin, Sy Reit, Dave Berg, Al Jaffee, Sid Caesar, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding

Stories

Combined Television Shows · 4 pages
Explores combinations of 2 tv shows into one, with disastrous results.
Mother's Day Cards from Special People · Mom's the Word Dept. · 3 pages
Some foolish Mother's Day cards.
It Happened on the Crosstown Bus · 2 pages
A man is attacked in an unusual way.
How to Be a Mad Non-Conformist · 3 pages
Showing the differences between ordinary folks, non-conformists, and Mad non-conformists.
Little League · 4 pages
The future of kids' baseball as Little League becomes ever more organized.
The Battle of the Credit Cards · All Charged Up Dept. · 4 pages
Unlikely businesses that you can charge and a journal of how credit cards work for business expenses.
The Professor Lectures on Space · 4 pages
The professor gives an incoherent lecture, concerned more about situations on Earth than in space.
Jack and Jill as Retold by Various Magazines · 4 pages
The nursery rhyme retold as tales of romance, adventure and crime.
Future Halls of Fame · Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow Dept. · 3 pages
Inductees into various Halls of Fame we might see, if the trend of establishing these for just about any occupation or hobby in sight continues.
The Greatest Missile Ever Built · 2 pages
Detailing the need for and design of an undetectable missile weapon.
Movie Posters for Packing in Every Type of Audience · 3 pages
Different posters for a movie, targeted at different audiences.
Pressure Can Report · 3 pages
Fenwick shows us how stuff and air are put into aerosol spray cans and previews some new spray products.
First Aid Handbook · One Good Tourniquet Deserves Another Dept. · 5 pages
Bad advice on how to treat common injuries, including how to cause them.
The Fishermen · 1 pages
A fisherman drags a boy out of the water, but he is below the size limit so his buddy throws the boy back.
Mad Double Features · 0 pages
Strange pairings of movies.
The Most Inexpensive Way to Make Smart Clothes... · Scotch Soft-Weave · 1 pages
Phony ad for dressmakers' colored tissue paper; parody of Scott Tissue ad.

Characters

Alfred E. NeumanEleanor Roosevelt

Reprinted in

The Voodoo Mad (1963), Mad about the Fifties (1997), More Trash from Mad (1958), The Worst from MAD (1958), The Completely Mad Don Martin (1974), Mad for Decades (2007)