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Issue: Mad #84
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/12/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
26 (18 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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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Special Christmas Seal Issue

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Alfred E. Neuman
A trained seal juggles glass Christmas tree ornaments poorly.
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Life Insurance? I'd Rather Play the Horses!

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Parody of Mutual Of New York life insurance print ads; a man rejects investing in life insurance in favor of gambling the money at the race track.
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Inside front cover.
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Departments

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Includes quote attributed to Alfred E. Neuman: "Working on a job may not be as hard as it used to be, but it certainly is a lot more taxing!"
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Random Samplings of Reader Mail

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Letters of comment from Richard Binder, Louise Bayer, Charlene Seegert, Arthur Heinsen, Gerry Zmijewski, Terry Adams, Steven Wagner, D. C. Detweiler, Stephen Brenner, Frank Kryza, Dave Greenleaf, Dave Stanton, and Ricky Parrish.
Includes photo of cover of MAD Follies.
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Send Christmas Greetings All Year 'Round!

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Mad Magazine
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House ad for subscriptions to MAD Magazine.
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Fill Those Stockings with "Greasy MAD Stuff"

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Mad Paperbacks
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House ad for MAD paperback books.
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Future Singing TV Commercials

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The Melody Jingles On Dept.
Examples of commercial jingles that adapt the melodies of famous Broadway musical songs. Products involved are Raleigh cigarettes, Anacin, Dash detergent, Allstate insurance, Vitalis hair tonic and Crest toothpaste.
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Drawn Out Dramas

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Cartoons drawn in the margins of 13 random pages.
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Celebrities' Nightmares

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Names in the Snooze Dept.
John F. Kennedy; Christine Keeler; Nikita Khrushchev; Mao Tse-tung; Frank Sinatra; Bert Parks; Nelson Rockefeller; Mrs. Rockefeller; Charlton Heston; George Wallace; Hugh Hefner
Various celebrities dream about their worst fears.
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Some Mad Hints for the Coming Xmas Season

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St. Nick Knacks Dept.
Robert E. Lee
Suggestions on shopping and shipping, and what to do with unwanted gifts, cards and leftover decorations.
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The Epicure

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Presentation of an Edgar A. Guest poem, with satirical illustrations added.
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More Movie Dialogue We'd Like to Hear

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Pat O'Brien [as Father Connolly]; Johnny Weissmueller [as Tarzan]; Maureen O'Sullivan [as Jane Porter]
Series of single movie cliche scenes with the dialogue redone to satirize the situation.
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Trademarks Resulting From Future Mergers

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Clash of Symbols Dept.
Merging famous trademarks to reflect corporate mergers. Trademarks merged are Sherwin-Williams with Dutch Boy Paint, RCA with MGM, Schweppes with White Rock, American Airlines with Greyhound, Prudential with Traveler's Insurance, White Owl cigars with Raleigh cigarettes, Kool and Camel cigarettes, Mr. Clean with Old Dutch cleanser, Sunshine Biscuits with Arm & Hammer, and Morton's salt with Heinz Ketchup.
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A Mad Guide to Hypnotism

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May I Have the Next Trance Dept.
Alfred E. Neuman
Satirical look at the procedure of hypnotizing someone and the benefits of hypnotism.
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Alfred E. Neuman makes a cameo as a hypnosis subject.
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Jabber-Whacky

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Alice; Queen of Hearts; Tweedledee (or Tweedledum); White Rabbit; Cheshire Cat; Carpenter; Mock Turtle; Mad Hatter; Humpty Dumpty; White King; playing card soldier
Recasting of Lewis Carrol's poem "Jabberwocky" using trademarks and brand names as the nonsense words.
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Brands mentioned or pictured are: Mobil gas, Shell gas, Gulf gas, GM Acceptance Corp, Max Factor cosmetics, Puss n Boots cat food, Accent flavoring, Imperial margarine, Heinz soup, Bicycle playing cards, Mum cosmetics, Excedrin medicine, Contact medicine, Bayer aspirin, Dristan medicine, Duncan Hines cake mixes, Kool cigarettes, Springmaid fabrics, S&H Green Stamps, Plaid Stamps, Piggly Wiggly supermarkets, Nytol medicine, Body by Fisher, Crest toothpaste, Doxee clams, Tide detergent, Brillo cleaning pads, G.E. appliances, Proctor & Gamble, Glade air freshener, Pillsbury, Taystee bread, Minute Maid juice, Q-Tip swabs, Dristan medicine, Mercury automobiles, Bufferin medicine, Tame hair rinse, Wisk cleaner, Pride furniture wax, Dash detergent, Spic and Span cleaner, Air-Wick air freshener, Bisquick baking mix, Aero-Wax floor wax, Dreft detergent, Ajax cleaner, Breck shampoo, Cashmere Bouquet detergent, Handi-Wrap plastic wrap, Joy detergent.
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Spy Vs. Spy

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The Black Spy; The White Spy
The Black Spy leaves a gift on the White Spy's doorstep; the Black Spy rigs a bomb detonator with his hat as bait.
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The Lighter Side of Cops

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Satirical look at police officers.
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3 Sure Fire Methods of Getting a Job

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Hire Education Dept.
Dubious ways of getting hired.
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One method involves posing as a current employee of the company you wish to be hired at, and announcing to a room full of applicants that the position has already been filled. This is similar to a method in an old (1930s ?) Mutt & Jeff strip where Jeff announces to a room full of applicants, from the door of the company president, that he will not be hiring any of them.
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Spy Vs. Spy

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The Black Spy; The White Spy
The White Spy booby-traps the door to his castle; the White Spy applies a red hot branding iron to the Black Spy's Trojan Horse.
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The Academy Awards for Home Movies

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Lights, Camera, Eccch-tion Dept.
Irving Waterhouse; Lyman Fumbler; Jack Gluck; Diane Picknoze; Theresa Mutz; Selma Needleman; Sally Ann Freem; Sanford Gass; Mildred Twill; Claude Fibula; Aunt Zelda; Aunt Ida; Fran Akers; Walt Akers; Jerry De Fuccio; Ginny De Fuccio; Clara Englehard; Donny Portnoy; Lenny Rupp; Harry Hartnett; Carl Bletch; Al Longo; Babe Mack; Doris Flang
An award show dedicated to home movies of average people.
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The award is named "The Marvin".
Jerry De Fuccio named after and drawn to resemble the associate editor of MAD.
The situations depicted foreshadow the "America's Funniest Home Videos" TV show of 1990-on.
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A Mad Look at Santa

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Santa Claus
Series of cartoons satirizing both the real Santa Claus, and charity ringers and store employees dressed as him.
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Spy Vs. Spy Vs. Spy

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The Black Spy; The White Spy; The Gray Spy
The Gray Spy fools the others into thinking she's drowning; the Gray Spy appears to make hot dogs out of the other two spies.
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Modern Teacher

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Working For Schoolie Wages Dept.
Jimmy Hoffa
Parody of a niche magazine aimed at teachers.
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A segment on whether teachers should be allowed to strike includes a response from then Teamsters Union head Jimmy Hoffa.
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An Early Morning Bathroom Scene

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A man berates the plumber he hired for the poor job done.
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Are You Haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Presents?

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Mad Grab Bag
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House ad for a grab bag of various MAD merchandise.
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I'm the Guy Who Puts Eight Great Tomatoes in that Little Bitty Can!!

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Parody of Contadina print ads; the head chef of the Concertina Tomato Sauce company demonstrates how he gets eight tomatoes into that little can.
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Back cover.

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