Cover: Harvey Kurtzman
Mad #24
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Headache? Cold Misery?
Extremely Important Message from the Editors
She Wanted to Drown Her Troubles
Jane Outsell
I Dreamed I Walked down 5th Avenue in My Ironmaidenfit
Are You Ever Lovely to Love?
Is a Trip to the Moon Possible?
Dr. X Fline SaucerCaptain Buck RogerMelvin CowznowskiCommander Zork Argh
Wrestling
Kid KindyouthOffensive HermanArt RottencoreReggie SpoilsportTom StrongheartDick StoutfellowYukon KlondikeAntonio Rockingchair
Comics Digest
BrunetteDogwoodPunjokeLittle Orphan MelvinDaddy PeacebucksLittle Melvin RooneySmilin' MelvinUpwind JohnsonLil' Ab'rMammy JokeumDick TracingChiefJuniorPopcorn kidsManduck the MagicianLoathar
Anyone Can Build This Coffee Table
Is This Your Life?
Raoul PhedwardsMelvin FurdShiloh CulpepperSabrina VoomSheldon ScroungeAlfred L. NeumanBrunhilda FurdFurd childrenFurd's motherFurd's fatherFurd's sisterFurd's brotherSnap (cameo)Crackle (cameo)Pop (cameo)Smith Brothers (cameo)Quaker Oats Man (cameo)Edward R. Murrow (cameo)Joe McCarthy (cameo)Joe Friday (cameo)Aunt Jemima (cameo)Arthur Godfrey (cameo)Jackie Gleason (cameo)Douglas MacArthur (cameo)Dean Martin (cameo)Prince Albert (in a can, cameo)others (cameo)
A Guide for Future Job Hunters
Vera's Cruz
Burt LambasterGary ChickencooperSeezer RomeoEmperor MaxamillionDenice ParcelMelvin CowznowskiSarita Vavavoom
If You Suffer Pain
Melvin Coznowski [Alfred E. Neuman]
Are You Walking Around like a Human Question Mark?
In These Danger Periods Your Skin "Dies" a Little
Camenbert, Duchess of Fromage
Never Before a Bandage That Sticks like This!
When I'm Eating Jell-y I Wish I Were a Human Being
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Reprinted in More Trash from Mad #1 (1958), Mad for Keeps #[nn] (1958), Mad #1 (1959), Son of Mad #S1701 (1959), The Brothers Mad #5 (U2105) (1963), Mad #8 (1968), Mad #9 (1968), The Brothers Mad #5 (24331) (1975), The Brothers Mad #[5] (1976), Son of Mad #7 (88-760) (1979), Mad about the Fifties #[nn] (1997), The Son of Mad #[nn] (2003), Mad for Decades #[nn] (2007), The Mad Archives #4 (2013), Atlas Comics Library #8 (2025)
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