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Issue: Mad #65
Publication Date: September 1961
 
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/27/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (17 stories, 1 cover)
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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
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Special Summer Travel Issue

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The column with Alfred E. Neuman chiseled into it fails to support its section of the roof.
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[untitled]

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Even This Much Can Cause Plenty Trouble
Parody of Gulf Oil magazine ads; Gulf campaigns against nuclear energy.
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Inside front cover.
A Realistic Children's Book For Realistic Children

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Telling children's stories in realistic terms.
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The Inventor

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A machine turns upon its inventor.
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How Madison Avenue Could Sell America to the World

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Buy the Way Dept
Frank Sinatra; John Kennedy
Altering famous advertising campaigns so the product they sell is the United States.
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Spy Vs. Spy

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The Black Spy uses a sonic attack against the White Spy.
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Television Programs Aimed at Late, Late Audiences

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Morning Becomes Electric Dept.
Television programs targeted to specific demographics known to be up overnight.
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A Mad Look at the Beach

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Series of beach-related gags.
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A Mad Guide to Classified Ad Abbreviations

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Satirical classified ad abbreviations.
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Mad's Custom Career-Designed European Tours

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On-The-Job Craning Dept.
European tours gears to specific trades.
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Miscellaneous
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TV Commercials With Suspense

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Brand X Marks the Spot Dept.
John Cameron Swayze [as John Cameron Crazee]
Altering familiar television commercials to create suspenseful endings.
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Miscellaneous
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Medical Illustrated

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Satirical version of a magazine geared toward physicians.
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Mad's Auto Travel Games

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Games that can occupy children during long car trips.
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Spy Vs. Spy, Part 2

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The White Spy decoys the Black Spy with a phony telegraph.
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Karate

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Satirical look at the martial art of karate.
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The Good Doctor in Africa

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An African explorer gets a surprise.
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The Jack Kennedy Show

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John Kennedy; Edward R. Murrow; Franklin Roosevelt Jr.; Harry S. Truman; Adlai Stevenson; Margaret Truman; Robert Kennedy; Tony Curtis; Sammy Davis Jr.
What if President John Kennedy hosted a television talk show like NBC's The Tonight Show?
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Miscellaneous
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Franklin Roosevelt Jr. performs Cliff Arquette's "Charley Weaver" character.
The Trouble With Owning a Cadillac

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Parody of Cadillac print ads.
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Back cover.

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