Cover: Kelly Freas
Mad #55
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeContains 10 stories
What? You Say I'm Not Covered?
Pictures The Editor Left Out
Mary Lou Va VoomMelvin GoodslobHolbrook "Home-Run" HarneySenator Vernon T. BalotstuferMrs. BalotstuferMr. Balotstufer (father)General KlodAlfred E. Neuman
The concert
Mandrake S. Bach
The Arthur Money Party
Kathleen MoneyThe Arthur Money Dancers [Rhoda PfefferLewis Eskin]Jawaharlal NehruMrs. Nikita KhrushchevFred AstepEd Sullivan
Literal Translations of Figurative Speech
In A Greasy Spoon Diner
Popular Politician
Adlai StevensonCharles DeGaulleNikita KhrushchevDavid Ben-GurionRichard NixonHubert HumphreyPat NixonDrouella PearsonsWayne MorseMargaret Chase SmithNelson Rockefeller
The Jackie Talented Story
Sid Caesar [Jackie Talented]J. P. StarmakerJackie's fatherTonyVera BrassyHelen Zigfried
Barber Shop
How Many Ways Can He Hurt Himself Today?
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Full credits
writer, artist, inker Don Martin
cover pencils, inks Kelly Freas
Reprints
Reprinted in Svenska Mad #2/1960 (1960), The Worst from MAD #4 (1961), More Trash from Mad #4 (1961), Three Ring Mad #D2439 (1964), Three Ring Mad #Y6197 (1970), The Completely Mad Don Martin #[nn] (1974), Dave Berg's Mad Trash #[nn] (1977), Dave Berg's Mad Trash #[nn] (1981), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #40 (1982), Mad for Decades #[nn] (2007), Mad's Greatest Artists: Don Martin #[nn] (2014), Mad #29 (2023), Mad #6
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