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Issue: Mad #272
Publication Date: July 1987
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Issues: #272 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN:
Price: $1.35 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 25 (19 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Mad

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mad
Character(s): ALF; Alfred E. Neuman
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): ALF; Maxwell Smart
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Pages: 1
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Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
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Best of the Millennium Reader's Poll

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mad
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Pages: 1
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ARFul

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Alien Life Farce Dept.
Character(s): Arf; Silly Shammer; Mate; Lame; Brian; Richard Dryface; Dr. McGoy; Spotty; Cliff Robinson; Chewbacca; Dr. Ruse; Simon McKay
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Spoof of sitcom "ALF."
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A Mad Look at Fast Food

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
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In Content Item: FlagMad's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonès #[nn] published January 2010
as A Mad Look at Fast Food [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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Mad's Alibis For All Occasions

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): A Serving of Spare Fibs Dept.
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Don Martin Dept. Part I: One Fine Day in North Calamari

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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The Flim Flam Film Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Rental Institution Dept.
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Pages: 4
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Spy vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): White Spy; Black Spy
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Pages: 1
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More Celebrity Silhouettes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Shadow Still Doesn't Know Dept.
Character(s): Sgt. Slaughter; Smokey the Bear; John McEnroe; Lucy Van Pelt; Cher; NBC Peacock; Larry Hagman; Bullwinkle; Pat Sajak; Vanna White; Barney Rubble; Betty Rubble; Sade; Olive Oyl; Gloria Steinem; Cathy; Orville Redenbacher; Joker; Whoopi Goldberg; Raggedy Ann; David Brenner; Opus; Rudy Huxtable; Snoopy
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Forget Smart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): A Bad Case of the Re-Runs Dept.
Character(s): Muxwall Smart; Agent 36-B; Chief
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Spoof of television series "Get Smart."
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Bush

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Vice Verse Dept.
Character(s): President George Bush
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Satirical poem "(with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)."
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The Lighter Side of...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Vignettes include fashion, winning, marriage, logic, conversation, parties, parents, cars, baby sitters, finance, segregation, physical fitness, higher education, and doctors.
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When American TV Programs Are Shown in Russia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Same Old Bolshevik Dept.
Character(s): Mark; Jonathan; Spock; Captain Kirk; Sulu; Uhura; Mr. T; Murdock; Hannibal; Face; Colonel Potter; Linus Van Pelt; Lucy Van Pelt; Charlie Brown
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Spoofs "Highway to Heaven," "Miami Vice," "Star Trek," "Wide World of Sports," "The A-Team," "M*A*S*H," "Peanuts," and "Cheers."
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A Mad Guide to Show Biz Success

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Alfred E. Numerates Dept.
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Rock Groups on the Way Up

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (Photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): American Band Slam Dept.
Character(s): Jack and the Crackpots; The Ram-bozos; Charlie and the Bonnie Princes; The Conquistadores; The What; The Ungrateful Living; Amazing Tails; Evolution Express
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Sport Activities for the Hyperactive

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Humor in a Jockular Vein Dept.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Includes arm-wrestling chess, high-hurdle dog walking, touch-dance skydiving, figure-skate skindiving, drag-race golfing, pumping-iron hang gliding, cross-country beekeeping, and mixed-doubles skateboarding.
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Why the U.S. Government Really Spends So Much

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Inappropriations Dept.
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Pages: 3
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Don Martin Dept. Part II: One Fine Day in the South Bronx

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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Mad Visits an Organ Transplant Hospital

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dunkin' Donors Dept.
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It's a Crummy Job ...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Taking a Too Weak Vocation Dept.
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Who Conducted the Most Exhaustive Washington Probe Recently?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: Inside Back Cover (full color).
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WWWF Magazine

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): A Mad Fake-Out Magazine Cover
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Printed upside-down ("flip-book") on the back cover.
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Drawn-Out Dramas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: No page count as gags appear in various places around the magazine.

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