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Mad #20

Feb 1955 · EC · 0.10 USD
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Contains 4 stories
Katchandhammer Kids!
8 pp · Satire-Parody
Hans KatchandhammerFeetz KatchandhammerDer KapitanInspektorboat company manMamma
Sound Effects!
7 pp · Satire-Parody
Kane KeenJoe Arrrgh
Paul Revere's Ride!
6 pp · Satire-Parody
Cowboy!
5 pp · Satire-Parody, Western-Frontier
Lance SterlingJohn Smurd

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Raw (Good) $61
CGC 9.8 · 1 in census $4,827
CGC 9.6 · 4 in census $2,238*
CGC 9.4 · 6 in census $1,311
CGC 9.2 · 3 in census $940*
CGC 9.0 · 8 in census $695
CGC 8.5 · 10 in census $456
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CGC 8.0 · 8 in census $313
CGC 7.5 · 9 in census $291
CGC 7.0 · 16 in census $241
CGC 6.5 · 18 in census $241
CGC 6.0 · 7 in census $159
CGC 5.5 · 11 in census $108
CGC 5.0 · 17 in census $108
CGC 4.5 · 7 in census $108*
CGC 4.0 · 5 in census $103*
CGC 3.5 · 1 in census $62
CGC 3.0 · 4 in census $62*
CGC 2.5 · 2 in census $62*
CGC 2.0 · 2 in census $60
CGC 1.5 none in existence
CGC 1.0 none in existence
CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $31*
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Full credits

writer Harvey Kurtzman
artist, inker Jack Davis
colorist Marie Severin
letterer Ben Oda

Reprints

Reprinted in Mad Strikes Back #[nn] (1955), Inside Mad #124 (1955), True West #6 (16) (1956), More Trash from Mad #1 (1958), Mad for Keeps #[nn] (1958), Mad Strikes Back #491K (1961), Mad Strikes Back #01564 (1969), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #12 (1973), Mad Strikes Back #03373-6 (1973), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #18 (1975), Spécial USA #13 (1985), The Complete Color Mad #4 (1987), Mad about the Fifties #[nn] (1997), Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad #7 (1999), Mad Strikes Back #[nn] (2002), Mad about Comic Strips #[nn] (2003), The Mad Archives #4 (2013), Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis #[nn] (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood #[nn] (2015), Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder #[nn] (2015)

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