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Issue: Mad #200
Publication Date: July 1978
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Issues: #200 of 550 Issues (594 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 0709893323007
Price: $0.60 USD
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Content Items: 18 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color (#1-23, 400-550); color cover with black & white interior (#24-399)
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (#1-23); magazine size (#24 onward)
Paper Stock: glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Rickard (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Rickard (signed)
Colorist(s): Jack Rickard (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Rip-Off

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don Martin
Penciller(s): Don Martin
Inker(s): Don Martin
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Don Martin submits a new definition for the phrase "rip-off".
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Pages: 0.13
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Clod Encounters of the Absurd Kind

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Hart
Penciller(s): Mort Drucker (signed)
Inker(s): Mort Drucker (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Boffo UFO Dept.
Character(s): Richard Dreyfuss [as Cloy]; Melinda Dillon [as Jelly]; Francois Truffaut [as the French scientist]; Teri Garr [as Ronnie]; Cary Guffey [as Barium]
Synopsis: In a parody of the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a possible contact with an alien race has ordinary people acting sillier than usual.
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Pages: 7
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Drawn Out Dramas

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sergio Aragones
Penciller(s): Sergio Aragones
Inker(s): Sergio Aragones
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Marginal Thinking Dept.
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Pages: 0
Disclose Notes: Cartoons drawn into the margins of random pages.
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The Rime of the Modern Skateboarder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tom Koch
Penciller(s): Don Martin (signed)
Inker(s): Don Martin (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): From Fad to Verse Dept.
Synopsis: In a parody of the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three over-aged skateboarders try to attract girls.
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Pages: 4
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You Can Never Escape From Stress

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tom Koch
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): That Old Familiar Strain Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of how no matter what you do, stress is going to get you.
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Pages: 3
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The Lighter Side of Fads

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dave Berg
Penciller(s): Dave Berg
Inker(s): Dave Berg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Berg's Eye View Dept.
Synopsis: Examination of how people flock to, or from, fads.
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Pages: 5
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Graduating Class Pictures as Staged by Some of the World's Best-Known Picture-Makers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Peter Porges
Penciller(s): Harry North
Inker(s): Harry North
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Awful Assembly Dept.
Synopsis: Graduation pictures taken by film auteurs Busby Berkeley, Federico Fellini, Sam Peckinpah, Cecil B. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, John Ford, Mel Brooks and Steven Spielberg.
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When Those "Old-Time Comic Strips" Follow the New Wave, Cerebral "Doonesbury" Trend

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Jacobs
Penciller(s): Jack Rickard
Inker(s): Jack Rickard
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tried and Trudeau Dept.
Character(s): Nancy; Sluggo; Dr. Rex Morgan; Dagwood Bumstead; Blondie Bumstead; Dick Tracy; Junior Tracy; Sgt. Orville Snorkel; Beetle Bailey; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Donald Duck; Daisy Duck
Synopsis: Veteran comic strip characters try the Garry Trudeau way of comedy.
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Mad's College Concert Comic of the Year

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lou Silverstone
Penciller(s): George Woodbridge
Inker(s): George Woodbridge
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Dirty End of the Schtick Dept.
Synopsis: Mad interviews popular college circuit stand-up comedian Carl Carnal.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: "Carl Carnal" is a thinly veiled parody of comedian George Carlin.
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Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Antonio Prohias
Penciller(s): Antonio Prohias (signed)
Inker(s): Antonio Prohias (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Joke & Dagger Dept.; Spy Vs. Spy
Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy
Synopsis: The Black Spy destroys the White Spy's ship with a specially designed torpedo.
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Pages: 1
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The Mad Book of Odds

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Hart
Penciller(s): Paul Coker Jr.
Inker(s): Paul Coker Jr.
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): You Bet Your Life Dept.
Synopsis: Odds are quoted on how likely discouraging events will happen in one's life.
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Pages: 2
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How to Read Between the Lines

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Hart
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Hidden Meanies Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of how quotes are taken out of context or dressed up to change their meaning.
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Pages: 4
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A Mad Look at the Moment Before the Disaster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Peter Porges
Penciller(s): Paul Peter Porges
Inker(s): Paul Peter Porges
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Zings to Come Dept.
Synopsis: Depicting the act that led to various disastrous outcomes.
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Pages: 3
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The Dummy & Mareek Show

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick DeBartolo
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres (signed)
Inker(s): Angelo Torres (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sweetness Counts Dept.
Character(s): Donny Osmond [as Dummy]; Marie Osmond [as Mareek]; Queen Elizabeth II; Pope Paul VI; Frank Sinatra; President Jimmy Carter; Johnny Carson
Synopsis: In a parody of "Donny and Marie," a pair of overbearingly cute singers host a variety show.
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Pages: 5
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Before the Rock Concert

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sergio Aragones
Penciller(s): Sergio Aragones
Inker(s): Sergio Aragones
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Socket to 'em Dept.
Synopsis: How a rock singer gets his mane of curly hair.
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Pages: 1
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What Volatile Ingredients - - Now Being Formulated - - are Sure to Cause Future Catastrophes?

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Jaffee
Penciller(s): Al Jaffee (signed)
Inker(s): Al Jaffee (signed)
Colorist(s): Al Jaffee
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
Feature(s): Mad Fold-In
Synopsis: It could consume an entire continent.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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The Frog Prince IV

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don Martin
Penciller(s): Don Martin (signed)
Inker(s): Don Martin (signed)
Colorist(s): Don Martin
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): More Fairy Tales Scenes We'd Like to See
Synopsis: A princess finds she has competition for her prince.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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