Howling Mad #23 (75-505)

A Warner Paperback Library collection of Mad magazine's sharpest satire, this 1974 edition features a cover by Norman Mingo that's hard to look away from — a sharply dressed werewolf in a suit and bow tie looms before a full moon and city skyline, his unsettling green eyes and toothy grin radiating an oddly dignified menace. Mingo's portrait-style rendering gives the creature a disturbingly human quality, blending horror and humor in that perfectly absurd Mad tradition. A fine snapshot of the magazine's wit at its most delightfully unhinged.