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Issue: Mad #138
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
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Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.35 USD
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Content Items: 22 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein; Jerry DeFuccio (associate editor); Nick Meglin (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: With the exception of the covers (inside and out), entire magazine is in black & white.
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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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In This Issue: Mad "Puts On" The Dog

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Jack Rickard
Jack Rickard
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Subject Matter
humorous
Alfred E. Neuman
Alfred E. Neuman; Snoopy
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FlagMad about Comic Strips #[nn] published January 2003
 
Miscellaneous
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Take It at Face Value!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Mad Special Ad
Alfred E. Neuman
Advertisement for Mad Special (1970 series) #2 Spring 1971.
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Inside front cover in color.
Departments

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Contents page featuring staff listings & what's featured in the magazine, listed by special Mad departments.
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Miscellaneous
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Paul Coker; Jack Davis
Paul Coker; Jack Davis
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Subject Matter
humorous
Random Samplings of Reader Mail
Alfred E. Neuman
Two pages featuring three sections; First section is an ad for Forty-six Mad Paperbacks; Middle section is Letters page with random samplings of reader mail, And third section is an ad for Mad subscriptions.
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From the "Letters" Dept. Paul Coker's artwork appears in the subscription ad & Jack Davis' artwork appears in the letters section.
Moroned

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Dick DeBartolo
Mort Drucker
Mort Drucker
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Subject Matter
humorous
Orbituary Dept.
Dewerdye; Wreath; Jam; Buzzoff; Blewitt; Seeya Blewitt
A satire of the movie, "Marooned".
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One Day at the Ocean

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Don Martin
Don Martin
Don Martin
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Subject Matter
humorous
Don Martin Dept.
Surf's up for a ship wrecked survivor.
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A Sports Fan's Garden of Verses

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Jacobs
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
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Subject Matter
humorous
Athletic Pentameter Dept.
Alfred E. Neuman; Lew Alcindor; Joe Namath; Rod Taylor; Dean Martin; Fred MacMurray; Chuck Connors; Al Hirt; Curt Gowdy; Jim Nabors; Jack Lemmon; Ernest Borgnine
Poems based on various sports themes. Poems included are: Broadway Joe; Skis; The Sportsman's Hour; Doubleday; I Must Go Out to the Track Again; Lew Alcindor; On the Road to Baltimore; Come Bowl with Me; and The Hometown Goalie.
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Hawks and Dove

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee
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Subject Matter
humorous
Fowl Play Dept.
Major Hawks; Private Doves
Private Doves uniquely puts a peace symbol on Major Hawks window.
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This is the second Hawks and Doves feature strip.
How to Read a Resort Ad

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gilbert Barnhill
George Woodbridge
George Woodbridge
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Subject Matter
humorous
Vacational Guidance Dept.
Real meanings to resort ad blurbs.
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If "Peanuts" Were a Weekly TV Series

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lou Silverstone (credited)
Jack Rickard [as Rickard] (signed)
Jack Rickard [as Rickard] (signed)
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typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Doing It Up "Brown" Dept.
Charlie Brown; Linus Van Pelt; Lucy Van Pelt; Peppermint Patty; Snoopy; Woodstock; Schroeder; Sally Brown; Shermy
If the Charlie Brown specials were turned into a weekly TV series, the shows concepts would be: Young Doctor Brown; Peanuts Squad; Peanuts Place; Charlie Brown, Attorney for the Defenseless; The Chuck Brown Show.
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FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981
as If "Peanuts" Were a Weekly TV Series [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself TV premiere Newspaper Story

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Jacobs
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Subject Matter
humorous
Cornglomerate Dept.
Another in the Mad do-it-yourself Fill-in-the blanks semi-regular feature, this time focusing on a TV premiere newspaper story.
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The Lighter Side of Transportation

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Dave Berg
Dave Berg
Dave Berg
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Subject Matter
humorous
Berg’s-Eye View Dept.
Roger Kaputnik
Dave Berg's Lighter Side of gag section focusing on a singular topic, Transportation.
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Spy VS. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Antonio Prohias
Antonio Prohias
Antonio Prohias
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Subject Matter
humorous
Joke and Dagger Dept.; Spy VS. Spy
Black Spy; White Spy
Black Spy falls for White Spy's sawed-in-half tree trap.
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FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #14 published ?
 
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The Mad Love Book

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George Hart
Paul Coker
Paul Coker
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?
Subject Matter
humorous
Sweet Talk Dept.
Gags featuring the opening line..."Don't you just love..."
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Miscellaneous
3
Once Again in Front of a Novelty Shop

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Don Martin
Don Martin
Don Martin
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Subject Matter
humorous
Don Martin Dept.
There's more than one way to get someone with a lapel trick.
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FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #13 published January 1974
 
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Those Wonderful Sixties! A Year 2000 Backward Look at a Warm and Wonderful Decade

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Siegel
Wide World, U.P.I. & N.Y. Daily News (Photos)
Wide World, U.P.I. & N.Y. Daily News (Photos)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Decade Dense Dept.
A look back at the 1960s, Mad style.
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FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #14 published ?
 
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Spy VS. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Antonio Prohias
Antonio Prohias
Antonio Prohias
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?
Subject Matter
humorous
Joke and Dagger Dept.; Spy VS. Spy
Black Spy; White Spy
White Spy falls for Black Spy's bicycle with slide trap.
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M*I*S*H M*O*S*H

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Arnie Kogen
Angelo Torres
Angelo Torres
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Subject Matter
humorous
Humor in a Jugular Vein Dept.
John Wayne; Dana Andrews; Adolph Hitler; Squawkeye; Kook; Colonel Henry Bloke; Shlepper John; Major Burned; Major "Hot Lobes" Holdahand; Radio; Seersucker Jones; O.J. Simpson; Joe Montana; The Chicago Seven
A parody of the movie "M*A*S*H".
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One Day in The Garden of Eden

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Don Martin
Don Martin
Don Martin
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?
Subject Matter
humorous
Don Martin Dept.
Adam; Eve
Adam makes another use for the fig leaf.
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What Innocent Product Threatens the World with an Immense Explosion?

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee
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Subject Matter
humorous
Mad Fold-In
Another famous Mad Fold-In from Al Jaffee.
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Inside back cover. In color.
The Artist

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Antonio Prohias
Antonio Prohias
Antonio Prohias
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Subject Matter
humorous
The Artist
An Artist finds an easy way to paint the perfect picture.
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FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #52 published ?
 
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Outside back cover. In color.
Drawn Out Dramas

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sergio Aragones
Sergio Aragones
Sergio Aragones
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Subject Matter
humorous
Sergio Aragones
Sergio Aragones' mini textless pantomime humor gags that appear in various margins and panels on most of the pages in the magazine.
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No page count as gags appear in Various Places Around The Magazine.

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