CATALOG RECORD

Mad #242

EC · Series began 1952 · October 1983

See live listings ♡ Sign in to add to Want List

Dates

Cover date: October 1983
On sale: 1983
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition

Barcode 0709893323010
Source ↗

Creators

pencils: Richard Williams, Don Martin, Paul Coker, Jack Rickard, Norman Mingo, Doug Marlette, Mort Drucker, Bob Clarke, Angelo Torres, George Woodbridge, Dave Berg, Antonio Prohías, Harry North, Jack Davis, Paul Peter Porges, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonésinks: Richard Williams, Don Martin, Paul Coker, Jack Rickard, Norman Mingo, Doug Marlette, Mort Drucker, Bob Clarke, Angelo Torres, George Woodbridge, Dave Berg, Antonio Prohías, Harry North, Jack Davis, Paul Peter Porges, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonéscolors: Richard Williamsscript: Dick DeBartolo, Tom Koch, John Ficarra, Frank Jacobs, Don Martin, Paul Laikin, Dave Berg, Antonio Prohías, Paul Peter Porges, Stan Hart, Al Jaffee, Don Edwing, Sergio Aragonés

Stories

Re-Hash of the Jeti · 8 pages
A satire of the movie Return Of The Jedi.
Warning Labels We Desperately Need · Whoopee! Caution Dept. · 2 pages
Warning labels for basic everyday things.
A Mad Guide of Life's Annoying Little Uncertainties...Or...You're Never Really 100% Sure... · Doubts All, Folks! Dept. · 3 pages
A series of gags on things we're just not certain of in life's everyday situations.
Mad's Video Game Arcade Owner of the Year · Two Bit Operator Dept. · 4 pages
Clint Eastwood interviews Philo Starbuck of the Milky Way Arcade.
One Fine Medieval Morning at Home · 1 pages
Home-town boy gets decapitated.
A Short History Showing How Different Publications Slant the News · Trying to Strip Bias Dept. · 2 pages
A series of newspaper front pages with slanted views on events.
The Lighter Side Of... · 5 pages
Dave Berg's Lighter Side of gag section focusing on the topics, Clothes; Dentists; Records; Sex; Food; Love; Annoyances; Soap Operas; Block-Busting; Bragging; Dating; Greeting Cards; Graffiti; Money & Pets.
Spy VS. Spy · 1 pages
White Spy falls for Black Spy's Two-In-One spring torpedo trap.
Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Peanuts Comic Strip · 2 pages
Mad's do-it-yourself featuring a fill in the blanks Peanuts comic strip.
Poetic Tributes to People Who Wouldn't Ordinarily Get Them · Knock Verse Dept. · 3 pages
Poems dedicated to people in small time or seedy occupations include a mugger, a plumber, a garbage man, a parking attendant, a mover, a loan-shark, a postal clerk, an accountant, and a forgotten government official.
One Afternoon on a Remote Jungle Island · 1 pages
Cannibal's version of a food fight.
An Advertiser Would Have Us Believe... · 4 pages
Examples of what advertisers will say just to get someone to buy into their product.
Lose Weight (Mainly Because You Lose Your Appetite) with the Mad Gross-Out Diet · Queasy Does It Dept. · 2 pages
A series of gags featuring disgusting things around you while eating.
The *A* Team [The *Asinine* Team] · T and *A* Dept. · 6 pages
A satire of the TV series The A-Team.
One Fine Evening During Prime Time · 1 pages
A coach potato doesn't have to watch TV to get his prime time dose of violence.
One-On-One Night in the Laboratory · 1 pages
Dr. Frankenstein and Igor come up with an unique way of putting the brain in the monster.
Drawn Out Dramas · 0 pages
Sergio Aragones' mini textless gags that appear in various margins and panels on most of the pages in the magazine.

Characters

Luke SkywalkerLeia OrganaHan SoloCharlie BrownAlfred E. NeumanLucy Van PeltRonald ReaganFrank Sinatra

Reprinted in

Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (1970), Mad Star Wars Spectacular (1996), Mad's Greatest Artists: Don Martin (2014), Mad (2018), Mad about Comic Strips (2003), Mad About Star Wars (2007), Mad for Decades (2007), Mad's Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker (2012), Mad's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs (2015)