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Cover: Kelly Freas

Mad #49

Sep 1959 · EC · 0.25 USD
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In "Stop Pushing - You'll All Get a Chance to Talk to Grandma," EC’s Mad #49 delivers a sharp, satirical take on fan correspondence, compiling letters from readers including Ken Franklin, The Brothers Kaminsetzky, Jim Daniels, and others. Written by Albert B. Feldstein and brought to life with Kelly Freas’s iconic cover art, this issue captures the playful, irreverent spirit of the series through its witty commentary on the previous issue.

Contains 17 stories
Stop Pushing - You'll All Get a Chance to Talk to Grandma
1 pp · Satire-Parody
The Mad Horror Primer
4 pp · Humor
Dr. FrankensteinFrankenstein's monsterThe CreatureKing KongDraculaWolf-ManThe Mummy
The Boy and His Toy
2 pp · Humor
Mad Looks at Book Clubs
4 pp · Satire-Parody
Millard FillmoreAlfred E. Neuman
Functional Architecture
2 pp · Humor
Half-Finished Billboards
4 pp · Humor
Marilyn Monroe
Scenes We'd Like to See: The Cops Close In
1 pp · Satire-Parody
Family Magazines
3 pp · Humor
Bing CrosbyBob CrosbyGary CrosbyKathryn Grant CrosbyBess TrumanHarry TrumanDwight EisenhowerRicky NelsonDavid NelsonOzzie NelsonHarriet NelsonNelson RockefellerLiberaceQueen Elizabeth IIPrince PhilipPrince CharlesEdsel Ford
America's Dream Car
3 pp · Satire-Parody
Shrunk World
4 pp · Satire-Parody
Sid CaesarSomerset WintersetProfessor Ludvig Von RumblemacherProgress HornsbyEdward T. Morrow
The Sculptor in His Studio
1 pp · Humor
Mad Medals for Everyday Heroes
2 pp · Humor
Zelda ZitzlaffFenwick J. FinsterArthur L. MudgeElihu BunchwellFreda PrawnFanny Strongthumber
TV Ads We'd Like to See
1 pp · Satire-Parody
TV Ads We'd Like To See
1 pp · Satire-Parody
Vic Tinny Gyms
5 pp · Satire-Parody
Vic TinnyPopeye
The 17th Floor
1 pp · Humor
We're Taking the Pledge at the Four Posies Society
1 pp · Satire-Parody

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Full credits

artist, inker George Woodbridge
cover pencils, inks Kelly Freas

Reprints

Reprinted in The Worst from MAD #4 (1961), More Trash from Mad #4 (1961), The Worst from MAD #7 (1964), The Ridiculously Expensive Mad #[nn] (1969), Mad #38 (1972), The Voodoo Mad #Q6245 (1973), The Completely Mad Don Martin #[nn] (1974), Mad #80 (1975), Mad about the Fifties #[nn] (1997), Svenska Mad #3/1998 [314] (1998), Mad for Decades #[nn] (2007), Mad #16 (2020), Mad #34 (2023), Mad #35 (2024)

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