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Issue: Mad #68
Publication Date: January 1962
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Issues: #68 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/09/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (16 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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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981 as The Comic Strip Characters' Christmas Party [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Season's Greetings from Mad

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Two men dressed as Santa get into a huge argument.
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Pages: 1
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Who Put the Men in Mental Breakdown?

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Parody of Alpine cigarette print ads; An Alpine cigarette can ease the irritating effects of constant bombardment from television cigarette ads.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Midnight TV Roulette

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Channel Crossing Dept.
Character(s): Jack Paar; Hugh Downs; Cliff Arquette [as Charley Weaver]; Joey Bishop; Genevieve Bujold; Boris Karloff; Peter Cushing; Christopher Lee; Bela Lugosi; Lawrence Olivier
Synopsis: A viewer surfs between the three options on late night television: "Hamlet", a monster movie or The Tonight Show with Jack Paar.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Appointment

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man races to make an appointment, but every means of transportation he uses breaks in half.
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Pages: 2
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If Stars Had Ordinary Jobs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): What Never Happened To Dept.
Character(s): Groucho Marx; Art Linkletter; Mitch Miller; Chet Huntley; David Brinkley; Boris Karloff; Ed Sullivan
Synopsis: If celebrities had never become celebrities.
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Pages: 4
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A Mad Look at Christmas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Series of Christmas-based humorous situations.
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Pages: 4
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Celebrities' Wallets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Barry Goldwater; Joseph McCarthy
Synopsis: A peek in Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's wallet.
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Pages: 2
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Inspirational Poems By, For and About the Nation's Building Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Famous poems altered to appeal to the construction industry.
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Pages: 4
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The Comic Strip Characters' Christmas Party

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Mr. Dithers; Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Moonbeam McSwine; Dick Tracy; Hi Flagston; Lois Flagston; Joe Palooka; Steve Roper; Smitty; Archie Andrews; Ponytail; Tarzan; Minnie Mouse; Donald Duck; Gran'ma; Pigpen; Smokey Stover; Lucy Van Pelt; Sweetpea; Schroeder; Popeye; The Saint; Daddy Warbucks; Little Orphan Annie; Sandy; Moon Mullins; Charlie Brown; Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Hans Katzenjammer; Fritz Katzenjammer; Steve Canyon; Terry Lee; The Little King; Henry; Ferd'nand; Fearless Fosdick; Li'l Abner; Prince Valiant; Diana Palmer; The Phantom; Mandrake the Magician; Loathar; Nancy; Jeff; Alley Oop; Felix the Cat; Mary Worth; B.C.; The Lone Ranger; Summer Smith Olsen; Snoopy; Albert Alligator; Pogo Possum; Junior Tracy; Mr. Magoo; Miss Peach; Mark Trail; Rip Kirby; Dondi; Gravel Gertie
Synopsis: Various comic strip characters meet for a Christmas party.
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In Content Item: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981
as The Comic Strip Characters' Christmas Party [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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Beer Ad

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ad Libs Dept.
Synopsis: Parody of magazine beer ads.
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Pages: 1
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Mad's Handy Guide to Languages of the U.S.A.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Watch My Line Dept.
Synopsis: Interpretations of slang terms endemic to various professions.
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Pages: 4
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Tovarich

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Nyets to You Dept.
Synopsis: A Soviet-style military officer plays cruel tricks on people.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: These are reprints of some of Antonio Prohias's anti-communist cartoons which ran in the Cuban newspaper Prensa Libre.
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College Fraternities

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sorority, Wrong Number Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of people stretching the truth.
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Pages: 4
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The Truth About Secret Ingredients

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Elements of Surprise Dept.
Synopsis: Two Soviet scientists combine the "secret ingredients" in various household products into an efficient rocket fuel.
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Pages: 2
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What Do You Do For a Living, Daddy?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Pop's Concert Dept.
Synopsis: Various fathers try to explain their jobs to their children.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Mad Publisher William Gaines has a cameo as one of the fathers.
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The Escalator

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: An overweight woman attempts to ride a narrow escalator.
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Pages: 1
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The Guns of Minestrone

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): All Hellas Breaks Loose Dept.
Character(s): Gregory Peck; David Niven; Anthony Quayle; Anthony Quinn; Irene Papas; James Darren
Synopsis: Parody of the film "The Guns of Navarone".
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Glass Bottles
Synopsis: Parody of milk print ads.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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