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Issue: Mad #83
Publication Date: December 1963
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Issues: #83 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: 25¢ Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/26/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
21 (15 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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Sex

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: cover only includes copy.
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367 Angry Workers Yell "Next Year - - Watch Out"

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Parody of Bulova Watch print ads; workers at the Buluva Watch company revolt when they receive watches for a Christmas bonus instead of money.
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Drawn Out Dramas

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: Cartoons drawn in the margins of random pages.
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Stupidity on Television

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Vidiot's Delight Dept.
Character(s): Vince Edwards [as Ben Casey]; Sam Jaffe [as David Zorba]; Garry Moore; Durwood Kirby; Carol Burnett; Chet Huntley; David Brinkley; Bud Palmer; E.G. Marshall [as Lawrence Preston]; Robert Reed [as Kenneth Preston]; Fred Gwynne [as Sherlock Holmes]; Joe E. Ross [as Dr. John Watson]; Marty Allen; Steve Rossi
Synopsis: Various examples of how current television shows can be "dumbed down" to match the incoming crop of silly situation comedies. Shows parodies are "Ben Casey", "The Garry Moore Show", "The Huntley/Brinkley Report", "CBS Sports Spectacular", "The Defenders", "DuPont Show of the Week", and "Classical Civilization".
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The Army on Mars

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spacial Delivery Dept.
Synopsis: How military life adapts to being based on Mars, as told through a series of interoffice memos and letters home.
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Pages: 3
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The Grand National 50 lb. Cannon Ball-Throwing Contest

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man throws a cannon ball further than he thinks.
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A Mad Guide to Art Films

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): A Kick in the Cannes Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of how to differentiate an Art House film from a commercial release.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Alfred E. Neuman has a cameo as a film critic.
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Spy Vs. Spy

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy
Synopsis: The White Spy cons the Black Spy into thinking he's committing suicide.
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Government Greeting Cards

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Add Verse and Consent Dept.
Synopsis: Greeting cards written by various government agencies.
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Mad's Chinese Restaurant Owner of the Year

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Chow Mainly Dept.
Character(s): Chaing kai-Cash
Synopsis: Mad interviews the less-than-scrupulous owner of a Chinese-themed restaurant.
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Shipwrecked

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man is marooned on a small sandbar.
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A Mad Look at Football

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Pokin' the Pigskin Dept.
Synopsis: Series of cartoons satirizing the game of football.
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Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy
Synopsis: The Black Spy tricks the White Spy with a trick cannon.
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The Lighter Side of Car Owners

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Series of cartoons satirizing car ownership.
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Scenes We'd Like to See

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Picture of a native American warrior proclaiming John Wayne is dead.
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Disclose Notes: The photo used is a publicity still of Burt Lancaster from the 1954 film "Apache."
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The Labor Union Manual

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Labor Pains Dept.
Synopsis: Satirical look at the functions of labor unions.
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Pages: 6
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Spy Vs. Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy; The Gray Spy
Synopsis: The Gray Spy fools the other spies with a phony mouse.
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Rule Number One

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Shriek of Araby Dept.
Synopsis: The dog of an Indian Fakir is a little too affectionate.
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Hood

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Meanwhile, Back at the Raunchy Dept.
Character(s): Paul Newman [as Hood Bunion]; Patricia Neal [as Elmer]; Melvyn Douglas [as Homer Bunion]; Brandon De Wilde [as Lonnie Bunion]; Roy Rogers; Gary Cooper
Synopsis: In a parody of the film "Hud," a sullen, angry, selfish lout makes everybody's life miserable on a Texas ranch.
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The Fire at the Art Museum

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Firemen attempt to rescue pieces of sculpture from a burning museum.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Oscar Jordan [as Nikita Khrushchev]
First Line: This we bury first
Synopsis: The leader of the U.S.S.R. reacts negatively to sampling an issue of Mad.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. The cover was printed upside down with a parody logo of the magazine "Newsweek" on the photo. The issue he's reacting to, ironically, is issue #82, which featured Fidel Castro on the cover.

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