Mad #478

Mad Magazine swings into June 2007 with a cover by Mark Fredrickson that captures a wide-eyed, slightly goofy Spider-Man plummeting upside-down through a photorealistic New York City skyline — web-line trailing above him, both palms open in an expression somewhere between web-shooting and bewilderment, while two startled onlookers gape from a building window below. The cover promises MAD's full satirical treatment of Spider-Man 3, and the lineup of targets inside — Law & Order: SVU, Spy vs. Spy, Spelling Bees, and Dog the Bounty Hunter — makes clear the wall-crawler is in very good company. Writer Jacob Lambert and artist/inker Drew Friedman round out the issue with "Photos Peter Parker Couldn't Sell to the Daily Bugle," which sounds like exactly the kind of inspired silliness MAD does best.