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Issue: Mad Strikes Back #03373-6
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Publisher: FlagBallantine Books
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Indicia Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
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Volume: none
Pages: 196
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Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 14 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: 19th Printing: July 1973.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: 4 1/8" wide x 7" tall
Paper Stock: Cardstock cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Cover, Front
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
?
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
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Miscellaneous
1
Straight Talk from Bob & Ray

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Elliott; Ray Goulding
Bill Elder
Bill Elder
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Comedians Bob and Ray discuss the Library of Congress catalog numbering.
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Miscellaneous
3
Prince Violent

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); Wally Wood (signed)
Wally Wood (signed)
Ben Oda
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
humorous
Parody of the Prince Valiant comic strip.
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Miscellaneous
24
Captain Tvideo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); Jack Davis (signed)
Jack Davis (signed)
Ben Oda
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
humorous
Parody of the Captain Video television show.
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Miscellaneous
21
Puzzle Page

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); Bill Elder
Bill Elder
Ben Oda
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
humorous
Satire of comic book activity pages.
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Miscellaneous
5
Gopo Gossum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); Wally Wood (signed)
Wally Wood (signed)
Wally Wood ?
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Parody of the comic strip Pogo.
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Miscellaneous
15
Ping Pong

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); Bill Elder (signed)
Bill Elder (signed)
Ben Oda
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
humorous
Parody of the film King Kong.
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Miscellaneous
21
Poopeye

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); Bill Elder (signed)
Bill Elder (signed)
?
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
humorous
Parody of the comic strip Thimble Theater Starring Popeye.
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Miscellaneous
24
Johnson C. Smith parody

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Bill Elder ?
Bill Elder ?
typeset
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
humorous
Parody of the Johnson C. Smith & Co. novelty item ads frequently seen in comic books.
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Miscellaneous
2
Art is rearranged from the cover of Mad #21 to fit paperback reprint format.
Teddy and the Pirates

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); Wally Wood (signed)
Wally Wood (signed)
Ben Oda
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
humorous
Parody of the Terry and the Pirates comic strip.
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Miscellaneous
24
Ripup's Believe It or Don't

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); Wally Wood (signed)
Wally Wood (signed)
Ben Oda
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
humorous
Parody of the Ripley's Believe It or Not comic panel.
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Miscellaneous
6
Cowboy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); Jack Davis (signed)
Jack Davis (signed)
?
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
historical, humorous
Side-by-side comparison of the romanticized film version of the west to how things actually happened.
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Miscellaneous
15
Manduck the Magician

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); Bill Elder (signed)
Bill Elder (signed)
?
Harvey Kurtzman
Subject Matter
humorous
Parody of the Mandrake the Magician comic strip.
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Miscellaneous
24
In Just Eight Seconds ... Mad Strikes Back!

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
?
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Alfred E. Neuman
Parody of Alka-Seltzer print ads from the fifties, promoting the paperback Mad reprint collections.
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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