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Issue: Mad #128
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.35 USD
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Content Items: 22 (16 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
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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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I will never read class in Mad

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Bob Clarke
Bob Clarke
Bob Clarke
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Subject Matter
humorous
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Miscellaneous
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A Hawk's-Eye View of the United States

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Max Brandel
Bob Clarke
Bob Clarke
Bob Clarke
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
A map of the United States, adjusted to reflect the country's involvement in Vietnam.
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Inside front cover.
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Why Not Have the Next Issue Sent Directly to Your Home?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Nick Meglin ?
Paul Coker Jr.
Paul Coker Jr.
typeset
Subject Matter
An astronaut has his subscription copy of Mad delivered to his orbiting spacecraft by an alien.
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The Guru of Ours

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Jacobs
Mort Drucker (signed)
Mort Drucker (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Pot at the End of the Rainbow Dept.
Liza Minnelli [as Dorothy]; Tiny Tim [as Auntie Em]; Dustin Hoffman [as The Munchkin King]; Pat Boone [as The Square]; George Hamilton [as The Snob]; Michael J. Pollard [as The Psycho]; Ed Sullivan [as The Guru]
In a parody of the film version of "The Wizard of Oz," a rural girl is borne by a tornado into a strange and bizarre land: A modern urban center.
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Mort Drucker slips Schroeder from the "Peanuts" comic strip into the background of page 4.
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Drawn Out Dramas

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sergio Aragones
Sergio Aragones
Sergio Aragones
Subject Matter
humorous
Marginal Thinking Dept.
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Cartoons drawn into the margins of random pages.
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On a Saturday Afternoon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Don Martin
Don Martin (signed)
Don Martin (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Don Martin Dept.
A man spends a less-than-successful afternoon skydiving.
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Miscellaneous
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A Mad Nature Study Guide

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Max Brandel; Frank Jacobs
? (photo)
? (photo)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Fair Game Dept.
Jane Fonda; Spiro Agnew; Richard Burton; Elizabeth Taylor; Bob Dylan; Mao tse-Tung; Doris Day; Fidel Castro; Tiny Tim; Gamel Abdel Nasser; Charles DeGaulle; Adam Clayton Powell
Photos of celebrity faces are superimposed on the bodies of common animals for ironic effect.
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The Heart Transplant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee (signed)
Al Jaffee (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Pump and Circumstances Dept.
A man gets a heart transplant.
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Mad's "Foreign Film Producer of the Year"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Dick DeBartolo
Joe Orlando
Joe Orlando
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Rib A Dubbed Dub Dept.
Hugh Downs; Carlo Levinetini
Mad interviews a film producer who is more interested in the quality of his profits than the quality of his films.
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One Day in a Hospital 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Don Martin
Don Martin (signed)
Don Martin (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Don Martin Dept.
A wife visits her husband in the hospital and depresses him with all the bad news of the world.
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You Know You're Really Overweight When...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kent
Paul Coker Jr.
Paul Coker Jr.
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Evaluating the Pound Dept.
Various examples of how to spot when you've let yourself go.
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Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Protest Newspaper Story

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Jacobs
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Picket Yourself Dept.
Generic newspaper article on a protest march with blanks at key places and multiple options to use for those blanks to customize the story to the actual event.
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The Lighter Side of Amusement Parks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Dave Berg
Dave Berg
Dave Berg
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Berg's Eye View Dept.
Examples of boorish and bad behavior at amusement parks.
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Miscellaneous
5
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Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Antonio Prohias
Antonio Prohias (signed)
Antonio Prohias (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
Joke & Dagger Dept.; Spy Vs. Spy
The Black Spy; The White Spy
The Black Spy traps the White Spy using an octopus.
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Some "Greeting Cards to the Newlyweds" We'd Like to See

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
David Hunter; Frank Jacobs
Bob Clarke (signed)
Bob Clarke (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
For Better or Verse Dept.
Greeting cards that point out the commercial cynicism of weddings.
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One Day in a Sawmill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Don Martin
Don Martin (signed)
Don Martin (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Don Martin Dept.
A man's severed hands are reattached.
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A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes: At a Laundry & Dry Cleaners

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Siegel
Jack Davis (signed)
Jack Davis (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Inside-Ouch Dept.
Cynical look at the inner workings of a professional laundry.
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A Mad Portfolio of Appropriate Comic Strip Sound Effects

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Earle Dowd
Bob Clarke
Bob Clarke
typeset; Bob Clarke
Subject Matter
humorous
Punch in the Noise Dept.
Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mr. A. Mutt; Jeff; Charlie Brown; Dagwood Bumstead; Mr. Dithers; Daddy Warbucks; Beetle Bailey; Mary Perkins; Dick Tracy
Comic strips with sound effects that have multiple meanings.
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FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981
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The Heist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sergio Aragones
Sergio Aragones
Sergio Aragones
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Safe on Second Dept.
A safe-cracker must work on the move.
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FlagMad's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonès #[nn] published January 2010
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A Mad Look at Two College Generations

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Siegel
George Woodbridge
George Woodbridge
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Rah-Rah-Riot Dept.
Comparison of the behavior of college classes of 1949 and 1969 from the same university.
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Miscellaneous
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What Is the One Unhappiness Almost All Modern Parents Are Sure to Share with Their Children

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee (signed)
Al Jaffee (signed)
Al Jaffee
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Mad Fold-In
One thing never changes when it comes to raising children.
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Inside back cover.
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The Tomb of the Unknown Smoker

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Al Jaffee ?
Al Jaffee ?
Al Jaffee ?
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Model of a graveyard monument to smoking victims.
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Back cover.

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