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Issue: Mad #182
Publication Date: April 1976
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Issues: #182 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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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: $0.50 USD
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Content Items: 19 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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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FlagMad's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonès #[nn] published January 2010 as The Shadow Knows [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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In Content Item: FlagMad #86 published June 1976
as Kaninchen aus Zylinder, mit "infinity"-Gag [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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The Castaway

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man marooned on a desert atoll sends a message in a bottle.
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Pages: 1
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A Mad Portfolio of Some Idealists' Dreams

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?(photo)
Inker(s): ?(photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Youth Serum Dept.
Synopsis: Pictures of real objects are cropped into shapes representing other objects and used to satire modern idealism
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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New Musicals Based on Big Movies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Thar's Gold in Them Thar Trills Dept.
Character(s): Marlon Brando [as Vito Corleone]; Al Pacino [as Michael Corleone]; James Caan [as Sonny Corleone]; Richard Castellano [as Clemenza]; Robert Duvall [as Tom Hagan]; John Cazale [as Fredo]; Abe Vigoda [as Tessio]; Roy Scheider [as Sheriff Brody]; Murray Hamilton [as Mayor Vaughn]; Richard Dreyfuss [as Hooper]; Robert Shaw [as Captain Quint]; Richard Chamberlain [as Simmons]; Robert Vaughn [as Senator Parker]; Fred Astaire [as Harlee Claibourne]; Paul Newman [as Doug Roberts]; O.J. Simpson [as Jernigan]; Steve McQueen [as Mike O'Hallorhan]; Charlton Heston [as Murdock]; George Kennedy [as Joe Patroni]; Gene Hackman [as Rev. Scott]; Ernest Borgnine [as Rogo]; Shelley Winters [as Belle Rosen]; Karen Black [as Nancy Pryor]; Burt Lancaster [as Mel Bakersfield]; Gloria Swanson
Synopsis: Recent popular motion pictures are turned into Broadway musicals, including The Godfather, Jaws and the then recent spate of disaster films.
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Pages: 7
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Drawn Out Dramas

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 0
Disclose Notes: Cartoons drawn into the margins of random pages.
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Beat the Recession with These Mad Penny-Pinching Hints

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Cheap Shots Dept.
Synopsis: A collection of dubious money-saving ideas.
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Pages: 3
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Early One Morning Downtown

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A bank robber is only interested in the bank's account premiums.
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The Lighter Side of Making Extra Money

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: People trying and sometimes failing to make money on the side.
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Pages: 5
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One Fine Day at the Corner of Finster Boulevard and Fonebone Street

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man on a street corner has a unique method of soliciting money.
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Pages: 1
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Mad Shoulder Patches

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): For the Symbol-Minded Dept.
Synopsis: Shoulder patches that represent common occupations.
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Pages: 2
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Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy
Synopsis: The Black Spy thinks he's crippled The White Spy's aircraft carrier.
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Pages: 1
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A Mad Look at Fifty Years of College Life in America

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Alma Martyrs Dept.
Synopsis: Retrospective of how college life has changed over thirty years.
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Pages: 8
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Mad's "Traffic Commissioner of the Year"

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Colossus of Roads Dept.
Synopsis: Mad profiles a city traffic commissioner and his inept, inefficient staff.
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Pages: 3
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A Mad Gallery of People It's Hard to Feel Sorry For

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Pity Larceny Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of unsympathetic people in undesirable situations.
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Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men? The Shadow Knows

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Examples of shadows performing what the person casting the shadow would like to do.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Third in a series.
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Good Time-Slot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dyn-O-Mite Schtick Dept.
Character(s): Esther Rolle [as Colorado]; Jimmy Walker [as GeeGee]; John Amos [as Jaimes]; Ja'Net DuBois [as Mahroan]; BernNadette Stanis [as Selma]; Ralph Carter [as Micro]
Synopsis: In a parody of the TV series "Good Times," a Black family struggles to stay together in the face of poverty, under-employment and stereotypical jokes.
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Pages: 5
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Late One Afternoon in a Doctor's Office

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A doctor tests a woman's reflexes in the wrong place.
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In What Important Bowl Game are There Nothing But Losers?

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
Synopsis: An empty bowl benefits nobody.
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Pages: 1
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I Want, Too

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
Synopsis: A woman, dressed as Uncle Sam, demands equal rights.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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