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Issue: Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #38
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Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
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Pages: 100
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UPC/EAN: 0709893408021
Price: $1.75 USD
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Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
36 (30 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched; some squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Early One Morning in the Near Future

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A man must hack through the thick covering of junk in order to fish the river below.
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Inside front cover.
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Departments

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Rockhead

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Rockhead; Appalling Greed; Atrium; Bawly
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Spoof of the motion picture "Rocky"
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The Mad Baseball Primer

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Learning the Score Dept.
Primer on what to expect when going to the ballpark to see a game.
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Don Martin on the Golf Course

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Golfers experience odd occurrences on the links.
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A Mad Look at Winter Sports

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Ice-Elation Dept.
A skier has an accident; an ice fisher has an accident; a bobsled team has an accident; a ski jumper picked up some unwanted passengers; a figure skating team has an accident.
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You Know You're Really a Football Fan When...

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Examples of behavior that identifies a person as an obsessed football fan.
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One Day at the Ocean

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Surf's up for a ship wrecked survivor.
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The Mad Game of Basebrawl

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Diamond and the Rough Dept.
Altering the rules of baseball to make it more violent and therefore more exciting.
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What Coaches Say...

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Switch Pitch Dept.
Things sports coaches say about their player in public, compared to what they say in private.
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A Psalm for a Sabbath Morning

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Tee-Ology Dept.
A psalm dedicated to Sunday golfers.
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What's the Dirtiest Play in Modern Football?

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Example of what's ruining football.
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The Mad Ice Hockey Primer

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Sport 'n' Blood Dept.
Examination of the sport of ice hockey, presented in the form of a child's reading primer.
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A Mad Look at Hunting

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The Forest's Prime Evil Dept.
Various hunter types and hunting situations are satirized.
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Sports Typography

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Text characters laid out to visually tell the story.
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The Hunter

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A hunter tests a new moose call.
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Surfing

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Only For the Board-Minded Dept.
Satirical look at the sport of surfing.
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Howard at the Mike

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Sports-Blaster Dept.
Howard Cosell; Frank Gifford; Don Meredith; Lily Tomlin [as Miss Tomlin of the Telephone Company]
An ode, patterned after Ernest Lawrence Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat", to the importance of announcer Howard Cosell to the popularity of ABC's Monday Night Football.
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In the Locker Room

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A football coach tries to improve a player's football knowledge.
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The Little League Hall of Fame

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A Hall Of Fame for Little League ballplayers.
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One of the inductees is Alfred E. Neuman.
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A Mad Look at the Joys of Scuba Diving

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Glub-Glub Dept.
A satirical look at the sport of scuba diving.
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A Sports Fan's Garden of Verses

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Athletic Pentameter Dept.
Alfred E. Neuman; Lew Alcindor; Joe Namath; Rod Taylor; Dean Martin; Fred MacMurray; Chuck Connors; Al Hirt; Curt Gowdy; Jim Nabors; Jack Lemmon; Ernest Borgnine
Poems based on various sports themes. Poems included are: Broadway Joe; Skis; The Sportsman's Hour; Doubleday; I Must Go Out to the Track Again; Lew Alcindor; On the Road to Baltimore; Come Bowl with Me; and The Hometown Goalie.
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Who Are the Disaster Victims That Nobody Helps?

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Al Jaffee points out one disaster area that remains a disaster area.
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The Mad Gun Owners and Other Small Bores Primer

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Nuts With Bolts Dept.
Satirical look at guns, gun owners and hunters, presented in a children's primer format.
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On a Saturday Afternoon

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A man spends a less-than-successful afternoon skydiving.
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A Nostalgic Look at Sandlot Baseball

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Hits, Runs and An Era Dept.
A look back at how boys played baseball before organized Little League baseball.
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Mad Magazine Introduces 43-man Squamish

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There's a Soccer Born Every Minute Dept.
Mad creates a new sport, a combination of polo, soccer and gang fighting.
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A Mad Look at Bicycling

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Chain Reaction Dept.
Examples of the bad side of riding a bike.
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Outdoor Sports Indoors

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Homebody-Building Dept.
Methods of playing outdoor sports inside, since urban sprawl has eliminated going outside to play.
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The Sports Spectators' Hall of Fame

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Athletic Supporters Dept.
Busts of fictional sports fans who represent specific types of fans.
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One Night at the Fights

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The corner men of a professional fighter get a little too mechanical in their jobs.
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The Longest Yardbird

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Reynolds' Rap Dept.
Burt Reynolds [as Crude]; Eddie Albert [as Warden Hazard]; Ed Lauter [as Capt. Clobber]; Michael Conrad [as Nate Scarbooboo]; James Hampton [as Carefaker]; Richard Kiel [as Tarzan Finster]
In a parody of the film "The Longest Yard," a sadistic prison warden forces a prisoner to join his prison football team.
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The Finish

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Race Riot Dept.
An auto race ends badly.
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What Special-Interest Group Is Benefiting Most from Our Jammed Courts?

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It's not the kind of court you're thinking of.
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Inside back cover.
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One Day at the Beach

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A surfer proves to be more graceful on the water than out of it.
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On back cover.

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