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Issue: Mad #89
Publication Date: September 1964
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Issues: #89 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
Title:
Variant: 30¢ Cover Price
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.30 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 23 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Variant with cover price of 25 cents exists.
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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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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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 Comic Strips They'd Really Like to Do [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Frankenstein's monster
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMad #482 published October 2007
as What The Heck Is The Difference? [Activity on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Have Yourself a Political Party

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Order form for MAD campaign posters, buttons, bumper sticker et al.
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Lose Your Self-Control

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.7
Disclose Notes: Order form for paperback books
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Why Kill Yourself?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.3
Disclose Notes: Order form for subscriptions for "MAD"
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When the Cigarette Industry Fights Back

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): They’ll See Us Inhale Dept.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Another MAD Peek Through the Microscope

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The MAD Academy Awards for Parents

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Old Folks at Ham Dept.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Alone in a Washroom for the First Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The MAD Drive-in Movie Primer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Car Watch Dept.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The Lighter Side of Water Sports

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Sights and Sounds of the U.S.A.: Hollywood, California

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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World's Fair Pavilions We'd Really Like to See

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Fair Grounds for Comment Dept.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Garden Swing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Black Spy; White Spy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The MAD Guide to Power Boating

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Oy-Vay All Boats Dept.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The last five pages are printed transversely.
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One Fine Evening in Lovers' Lane

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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Comic Strips They'd Really Like to Do

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Charlie Brown (cameo); Pogo (cameo); Mary Worth (cameo); Beetle Bailey (cameo); Sergeant Snorkel (cameo); Miss Peach (cameo)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Five famous comic strip creators lampoon the strips of other creators (0.7 page each):
Schulz spoofing himself (kind of)
Kelly spoofing "Miss Peach"
Ernst and Saunders spoofing "Peanuts"
Walker spoofing "the Heart of Juliet Jones"
Lazarus spoofing "Steve Canyon"
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The French Disconnection

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Black Spy; White Spy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Phewgitive

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): A Flee Circus Dept.
Character(s): Dr. Richard Thimble; a local police chief and his daughter; Adolf Hitler (cameo); the head of the Olympic Committee; the man looking for Richard Thimble for weeks; a one-armed man
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Spoof of tv series "The Fugitive"
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The Private Eye

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The One Sure Thing We'll All Get Out of Our Moon Shot

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A MAD fold-in
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[untitled]

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: That's right, Operator! Long Distance – Person-to-Person to Arnold Finster -
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Spoof advertisement for a fictional telephone company (Bilked Telephone System). Illustration is a color photography.

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