Mad #258

October 1985 finds Mad in peak form with this Al Jaffee cover that perfectly captures the era's computer craze — a headless figure in jeans and sneakers lies sprawled flat while a desktop computer sits where his head should be, Alfred E. Neuman's grinning face beaming from the green monitor screen. The promise of a Special Computer Section and the MAD Computer Program makes this a wonderfully time-capsule snapshot of mid-'80s tech anxiety filtered through the magazine's signature absurdity. Inside, Stan Hart and Jack Davis tackle teenage cinema with "Mad's Academy Awards for Teenage Films," and the Goonies get the MAD treatment too — plenty to savor in issue #258.