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Issue: Mad #17
Publication Date: November 1954
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Issues: #17 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Educational Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The interior is printed upside down. Indicia is printed on the inside of the back cover, or front cover once flipped. The sequences here after the cover are indexed in order once the book is flipped.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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This Issue Is Going to Change Your Whole Viewpoint of Mad...

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photogaph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mad Magazine
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales Calculated to Drive You Mad #6 [Newsstand] published January 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Book Club of Tomorrow Is Here Today!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Science-Fiction Book Club. On apparent back cover, which is actually the front cover, printed upside down.
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King of Clubs

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Panic; Mad
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Panic and MAD subscriptions. On inside "back" cover, printed right-side up.
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Bringing Back Father!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Jiggie; Maggs; Little Orphan Annie (cameo); Dinty Moore; Jiggie's brother-in-law; Jiggie's daughter
Synopsis: Jiggie cannot take Maggs's abuse any longer so when he has his serious moments he hires some goons to beat her into submission.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Drawn in 2 different styles by the 2 different artists: odd pages in the cartoon style and even pages in a more realistic style where Jiggie is shown to be severly injured by Maggs's constant violence.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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What's My Shine!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Jay Renkins; Everett Dirkdaughter; Henry Doorshack; Charles Potrzebie; John McLellillellillin; Stuart Sawhimintown; Henry Jackdaughter; Lana Cheesecake; Joseph McCartaway; Even Steven; Sturdley Smurdley; Karl Weekdt
Synopsis: How the Senate Subcomittee hearings would go if they were run like a TV game show.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Mad Reader #93 [1] published November 1954
as What's My Shine! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Game show style loosely based on "What's My Line?" First page is photo of Senate Subcommittee.

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Dra

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (encyclopedic text)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Consistent with our past practice of devoting this page to a serious analysis of the situation of the world today and how it affects us...
Synopsis: Excerpt of the history section of the Geology entry from Encyclopedia Britannica (Volume 10 in the 1929 edition). The tiny text begins with "Modern Geologists. -- With the work of James Hutton (1726-97), which is rather difficult reading, and its lucid exposition by John Playfair (1748-1819), we at last come to the beginnings of modern geology."
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Reprint Notes: from "Geology" in The Encyclopedia Britannica - Volume 10 (1929 or possibly earlier)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Gag is that this is the small country's viewpoint, and type is very tiny. In fact, it's almost unreadable and indexer is uncertain of title. Dra it is (but you have to use a magnifying glass to read it).
Script credit identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #3.
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E. C. Went to Sea in Search of Another New Trend...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Piracy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Piracy comic subscriptions. Drawing are caricatures of E. C. staffers.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Blue Beathard, Rocky Colassanti, Burl Moss, "no name given," Stan the Garbageman, Robert Glaberson, Frank Smith, Gilbert O'Connell, Phillip Loeb, Keith Nutt, Ginger Adler, Sam Browman, J. D. Carlson, Richard Scott.

Script and colors credits identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #3.
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Meet Miss Potgold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A collection of drawings of grotesque women entered in the Miss Potgold of 1955 contest.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Mad Reader #93 [1] published November 1954
as Meet Miss Potgold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: First page is a parody of a Rheingold Beer ad with Bill Gaines in the photo.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Julius Caesar!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Julius Caesar; Willie The Elder (cameo); Dick Tracy (cameo); Martin Walkingkane (cameo); Shermlock Shomes (cameo); Marlon Branflakes; Calphurnia; Marilyn Monroe (cameo); Fearless Feasdick; Junior; Mickey Mouse (cameo); Donald Duck (cameo); Pluto (cameo); Goofy (cameo)
Synopsis: MAD writer points out standard lampoon shtick elements during a portion of Julius Caesar story.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagComix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn] published January 1971
as Julius Caesar! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagComix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn] published January 1971
as Julius Caesar! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD-Inspired Satirical Comics #[nn] published April 2012
as the competition [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The titles of MAD and 11 competitors are used in the narrative on the first page: Bughouse; Crazy; Eh!; Flip; Get Lost; MAD; Madhouse; Nuts!; Panic; Riot; Wild; Whack. This page is a setup for the following story (intro and main story are consecutively paginated).

Script credits from John Benson's "The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD-Inspired Satirical Comics" (Fantagraphics, 2012)
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Yours Free!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photo)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): B. J. Sutart
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Stuart Greetings card sales outfits.
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Send for My Free Outfit and Start a Quick-Cash Spare Time Shoe Business!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for sales kits for Mason Shoes. On inside "front" cover.

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