Mad #113
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Inspector General," a slick con artist wins a railroad in a rigged poker game and sets out to build it—despite a cast of scheming rivals, his own incompetence, and the absurdity of it all. Written by Dick DeBartolo and brought to life with sharp, satirical flair by artist Mort Drucker, this Mad classic parodies the grandiose style of "The Iron Horse" with a mix of deadpan humor and visual gags. The cover, by Norman Mingo, captures the story’s sly, self-aware tone in bold, expressive lines.
In a satirical twist on the mythic Western railroad tales, a slick, self-serving charmer claims ownership of a railroad after a rigged poker game—only to find himself hopelessly out of his depth as he tries to build the line amid sabotage, rival schemes, and his own glaring incompetence. Written with sharp wit and rendered in bold, exaggerated style, "The Iron Horselaff" skewers the genre’s grandiose tropes with a parade of absurd missteps and over-the-top machinations.
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Reprinted in Mad #5 (1968), Mad #8 (1968), Mad #9 (1968), The Mad Morality or the Ten Commandments Revisited #[nn] (1972), Mad #38 (1972), Mad #51 (1973), The Pocket Mad #36 (1974), The Completely Mad Don Martin #[nn] (1974), Dave Berg's Mad Trash #[nn] (1977), Dave Berg's Mad Trash #[nn] (1981), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #69 (1989), Mad's Greatest Artists: Don Martin #[nn] (2014), Mad's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs #[nn] (2015)
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