Cover: Jack Rickard
Mad #196
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Star Roars
Princess LaidupDart VaderBar-StoolCreepioLube SkystalkerHam YoyoChewbaccoOldie Von MoldieZfrxQuasimodoZargg
Early One Morning in South America
Mad Diplomacy in Every Day Life Situations
The Lighter Side of Water
Late One Afternoon in South Dakota
If Public Services Were Run Like Private Enterprise
A Mad Look at Mishaps of the Future
Mad's Literary Agent of the Year
Henry WrinklerChutzpah Leech
A Mad Look at a Modern High School
Inventions We'd Like to See
Early One Evening in Atlantic City
He's Company
CrassyTackyJanetMr. DoperMrs. DoperLucille BallDesi ArnazVivan VanceWilliam FrawleyAnita Bryant
The Frog Prince
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Full credits
writer, artist, inker Don Martin
cover pencils, inks Jack Rickard
Reprints
↩ Reprints Mad #120 (1979)
Reprinted in Mad #107 (1978), Mad #108 (1978), Mad #101 (1979), Mad #126 (1979), Mad #141 (1981), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #37 (1981), Norsk Mad #1/1981 (1981), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #39 (1982), Mad Super Special #Mad Autumn '87 Super Special Number 60 (1987), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #58 (1987), Mad Star Wars Spectacular #1996 (1996), Mad Star Wars Spectacular #[1999] (1999), Mad for Decades #[nn] (2007), Mad About Star Wars #[nn] (2007), Mad's Greatest Artists: Don Martin #[nn] (2014), Mad #19 (2021), Mad #30 (2023), Mad #39 (2024), Mad #48 (2026)
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