Dates
- Cover date
- March 1981
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
Creators
Stories
- The Shiner · Hatchet Job Dept. · 7 pages
A satire of the movie The Shining.
- Variety for Other Occupations · Tripe Hype Dept. · 3 pages
Variety Magazine for... Plumbers; Toll Collectors; House Painters; Moving Men; Janitors.
- Don Martin Looks at... The Hulk · Green and Bare It Dept. · 4 pages
- If "Hollywood Hype" Were Used for Everyday Dramatic Occasions · Hype Tripe Dept. · 4 pages
- Mad's New Phobias for the 80's · The Dread Menace Dept. · 2 pages
- The Mad Stop Watch · Tick-Tick Schtick Dept. · 2 pages
- The Lighter Side of... · 5 pages
A cynical look at growing pains, car owners, success, parking, education, modern technology, the energy crisis, inflation, marriage, shopping, children, winter, on the job, and discipline.
- Spy vs. Spy · 1 pages
- Mixed-Up Junk Mail Mailing Lists · Post Waste Dept. · 2 pages
- Mad Image-Builders · An Eye for an "I" Dept. · 4 pages
- Customized Organ Donor Cards for Some Very Special Donors · Used Parts Dept. · 2 pages
Organ donor cards for Johnny Carson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Rich Little, Muhammad Ali, Don Rickles, Howard Cosell, Idi Amin Dada, The Amazing Kreskin, Norman Lear, Ralph Nader, Billy Carter and Robert “Evel” Knievel.
- More Mad Candid Snapshots of Historical Celebrities · Hokey-Focus Dept. · 3 pages
- Crapper John, M.D. · "Mash" Murderer Dept. · 5 pages
A satire of the television show Trapper John, M.D.
- A Basket Case High Up on the 37th Floor · Parting Shot Dept. · 1 pages
- Mad's Story-Telling U.S. Postage Stamps · 1 pages
"Thoroughly unbearable Postal Service... driving America Bats for 200 years!"
- Drawn-Out Dramas · 0 pages
Characters
Reprinted in
Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (1970), Mad About Super Heroes (2002), Mad about Super Heroes (2006), Mad (2018)