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Issue: Mad #63
Publication Date: June 1961
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Issues: #63 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/28/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (19 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1961 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
Format Notes:  
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FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981 as Adult TV Cartoons [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Special April Showers Issue

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Alfred gets rained on under his umbrella.
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Pages: 1
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Boy, Were We Surprised!

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man burglarizes the 3M Company safe by tying up the security guard with cellophane tape.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Mad's Modern Elementary School Text Books

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lessen the Load Dept.
Synopsis: Updating school text books with modern pictures and references.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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What's in a Name?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Neuman-Clature Dept.
Character(s): Jacqueline Kennedy; Robert Kennedy; Jayne Mansfield; Arnold Stang; Ronald Reagan; Lloyd Bridges; Fabian; Rick Nelson; Stan Musial; Werner Von Braun; Eddie Fisher; Pat Nixon; Dennis Hopper
Synopsis: Contrasting the historical definitions of common names with celebrities who have those names.
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Pages: 2
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Specialized Breakfast Foods

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Bowl Game Dept.
Synopsis: Breakfast cereals marketed to specific demographic groups.
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Pages: 3
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At the Knife-Throwing School

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man is instructed on the proper form to throw a knife.
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Pages: 2
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Adult TV Cartoons

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Fred Flintstone; Barney Rubble; Wilma Flintstone; Jackie Gleason [as Ralph Kramden]; Art Carney [as Ed Norton]; Audrey Meadows [as Alice Kramden]; Mickey Mouse
Synopsis: If other cartoon series lifted their premise from established television shows, as The Flintstones were accused of doing from The Honeymooners.
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In Content Item: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981
as Adult TV Cartoons [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Jack Paar is anthropomorphized as a crocodile, Groucho Marx as an owl, and Charles Collingwood as a fox.
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Magazines For Senior Citizens

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Paging the Aging Dept.
Synopsis: Magazines geared to the over sixty set.
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Pages: 2
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How To Improve America's Prestige Abroad

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Uncle Semantics Dept.
Synopsis: Various stereotypical Americans relate their ideas to improve the country's image.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Alfred E. Neuman makes a cameo appearance on a movie poster.
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Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The White Spy booby-traps the Black Spy's phone.
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Pages: 1
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Sports Typography

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Text characters laid out to visually tell the story.
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The Minute After That One Minute TV Commercial

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Continuing the action of various television commercials after the camera has stopped.
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Pages: 4
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In the Park

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man looks at the statues in the park.
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Pages: 1
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The Great Magazine Circulation Drive

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sub-Version Dept.
Synopsis: A magazine publishing company badgers a person to subscribe.
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Pages: 4
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Spy Vs. Spy, Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The Black Spy booby-traps the White Spy's chicken.
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Pages: 1
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A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Behind the scenes at various businesses.
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Pages: 2
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Paperback Roulette

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Cover-Story Dept.
Synopsis: A rack full of paperback book covers is presented.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Charlie Brown appears on the cover of a Peanuts compilation. Alfred E. Neuman makes a cameo on a crime novel cover. The reprint collection "Utterly Mad" appears in the self-help section.
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How to Read Between the Lines and Fill In Those Little Dots in a Gossip Column

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Little Black-And-White Lies Dept.
Character(s): Lassie; Tony Curtis; Janet Leigh; Marilyn Monroe; Arthur Miller; Fabian
Synopsis: Filling in the facts that Hollywood gossip columns leave out.
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Pages: 3
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The Pickpocket

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A pickpocket works a crowded subway car.
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Pages: 1
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Mad Visits John Wayde on the Set of The Alamo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): We Wish Hollywouldn't Dept.
Character(s): John Wayne [as John Wayde playing Davy Crockett]; Richard Boone [as Sam Houston]; Richard Widmark [as Jim Bowie]; Frankie Avalon [as Smiddy]
Synopsis: Satirical look behind the scenes at the filming of the John Wayne film "The Alamo".
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Pages: 4
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Sadder...But Wiser

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Parody of Budweiser Beer print ads.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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