Dates
- Cover date
- December 1963
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #83 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
Creators
Stories
- Stupidity on Television · Vidiot's Delight Dept. · 4 pages
Various examples of how current television shows can be "dumbed down" to match the incoming crop of silly situation comedies. Shows parodies are "Ben Casey", "The Garry Moore Show", "The Huntley/Brinkley Report", "CBS Sports Spectacular", "The Defenders", "DuPont Show of the Week", and "Classical Civilization".
- The Army on Mars · Spacial Delivery Dept. · 3 pages
How military life adapts to being based on Mars, as told through a series of interoffice memos and letters home.
- The Grand National 50 lb. Cannon Ball-Throwing Contest · 2 pages
A man throws a cannon ball further than he thinks.
- A Mad Guide to Art Films · A Kick in the Cannes Dept. · 6 pages
Examples of how to differentiate an Art House film from a commercial release.
- Untitled · 1 pages
The White Spy cons the Black Spy into thinking he's committing suicide.
- Government Greeting Cards · Add Verse and Consent Dept. · 3 pages
Greeting cards written by various government agencies.
- Mad's Chinese Restaurant Owner of the Year · Chow Mainly Dept. · 4 pages
Mad interviews the less-than-scrupulous owner of a Chinese-themed restaurant.
- Shipwrecked · 1 pages
A man is marooned on a small sandbar.
- A Mad Look at Football · Pokin' the Pigskin Dept. · 4 pages
Series of cartoons satirizing the game of football.
- Untitled · 1 pages
The Black Spy tricks the White Spy with a trick cannon.
- The Lighter Side of Car Owners · 4 pages
Series of cartoons satirizing car ownership.
- The Labor Union Manual · Labor Pains Dept. · 6 pages
Satirical look at the functions of labor unions.
- Untitled · 1 pages
The Gray Spy fools the other spies with a phony mouse.
- Hood · Meanwhile, Back at the Raunchy Dept. · 3 pages
In a parody of the film "Hud," a sullen, angry, selfish lout makes everybody's life miserable on a Texas ranch.
- The Fire at the Art Museum · 1 pages
Firemen attempt to rescue pieces of sculpture from a burning museum.
Characters
Reprinted in
Mad Follies (1963), Good 'n' Mad (1981), The Completely Mad Don Martin (1974), The Worst from MAD (1958), The Ridiculously Expensive Mad (1969), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (1970), Mad's Sergio Aragonés on Parade (1982), Mad's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonès (2010), Mad's Greatest Artists: Don Martin (2014), Mad (2018)