Dates
- Cover date
- July 1973
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Tell-Tale Comic Strip Balloons · 3 pages
Word balloons are given specific silhouette shapes to convey a non-verbal message.
- Cannonball · The Fat's on the Fire Dept. · 7 pages
In a parody of the TV series "Cannon," a private detective is given a case to solve, if he can stop eating long enough to solve it.
- Distinctive Wedding Announcements · Ball-and-Chain Letters Dept. · 3 pages
Wedding announcements geared to very specific demographics.
- One Day in the North Woods · 1 pages
Two lumberjacks drop their trees in the wrong spots.
- The Lighter Side of... Leisure Time · 5 pages
Satirical look at how Americans spend their down time.
- Untitled · 1 pages
The White Spy thinks he's defused the Black Spy's booby trap but the firecracker holds a lion.
- Mad's Corporate Ecologist of the Year · Environmentally Disturbed Dept. · 4 pages
Mad interviews the head of a corporation lauded for its pro-ecology efforts.
- A High School Yearbook That Tells It Like It Really Is · Schoolduggery Dept. · 7 pages
A yearbook from a less-than-stellar inner city high school that doesn't hide the warts.
- A Mad Look at Weddings · The Wed Menace Dept. · 4 pages
Examples of embarrassing or unusual incidents at wedding ceremonies.
- One Day with a Wishbone · 1 pages
Two people get their wish from a single wishbone.
- Going Thy Way · Sing, You Sinners Dept. · 3 pages
In a parody of the film "Going My Way," a traditional Catholic priest has a clash of styles with a new priest with more contemporary values.
- Going Way Out · Sin, You Swingers Dept. · 3 pages
Parody sequel to "Going My Way", in which Father O'Irish, now in his sixties, is paired with a younger priest with contemporary seventies values.
Reprinted in
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)