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Cover: Norman Mingo

Mad #89

Sep 1964 · EC · 0.30 USD
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Contains 13 stories
When the Cigarette Industry Fights Back
4 pp · Satire-Parody
Another MAD Peek Through the Microscope
3 pp · Humor
The MAD Academy Awards for Parents
5 pp · Humor
Alone in a Washroom for the First Time
1 pp · Humor
The Lighter Side of Water Sports
4 pp · Humor
World's Fair Pavilions We'd Really Like to See
4 pp · Humor
The Garden Swing
1 pp · Humor
Black SpyWhite Spy
The MAD Guide to Power Boating
6 pp · Humor
One Fine Evening in Lovers' Lane
1 pp · Humor
Comic Strips They'd Really Like to Do
4 pp · Satire-Parody
Charlie Brown (cameo)Pogo (cameo)Mary Worth (cameo)Beetle Bailey (cameo)Sergeant Snorkel (cameo)Miss Peach (cameo)
The French Disconnection
1 pp · Humor
Black SpyWhite SpyGrey Spy
The Phewgitive
5 pp · Satire-Parody
Dr. Richard Thimblea local police chief and his daughterAdolf Hitler (cameo)the head of the Olympic Committeethe man looking for Richard Thimble for weeksa one-armed man
The Private Eye
1 pp · Humor

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (VG) $19
CGC 9.8 · 1 in census $2,338*
CGC 9.6 · 2 in census $729*
CGC 9.4 · 3 in census $373
CGC 9.2 · 2 in census $216*
CGC 9.0 · 3 in census $147*
CGC 8.5 · 1 in census $101*
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CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $76
CGC 7.5 · 3 in census $62*
CGC 7.0 · 2 in census $52*
CGC 6.5 · 2 in census $43*
CGC 6.0 none in existence
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 none in existence
CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $35*
CGC 4.0 · 2 in census $35
CGC 3.5 none in existence
CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $20*
CGC 2.5 · 1 in census $20*
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Cast · 1 character

Alfred E. Neuman

Full credits

writer Don Reilly
artist, inker Jack Rickard
cover pencils, inks Norman Mingo

Reprints

Reprinted in Svenska Mad #4/1965 (1965), Mad #3 (1967), The Ridiculously Expensive Mad #[nn] (1969), The Portable Mad #Q6296 (1970), The Completely Mad Don Martin #[nn] (1974), Mad #70 (1975), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #30 (1980), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 (1981), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #41 (1982), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #40 (1982), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #42 (1983), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #66 (1989), Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #70 (1990), Mad for Decades #[nn] (2007), Mad #482 (2007), Mad's Greatest Artists: Don Martin #[nn] (2014), Mad #23 (2022), Mad #45 (2025), Mad #61

Key issues in Mad

#21★
#21 1st appearance — Alfred E. Neuman
#60★
#60 1st appearance — The Black Spy
#128★
#128 1st appearance — Spiro Agnew
#172★
#172 1st appearance — Oscar Goldman
#180★
#180 1st appearance — The Fonz
#208★
#208 1st appearance — Ursa
#150★
#150 1st appearance — Henry Kissinger
#115★
#115 1st appearance — Nyota Uhura

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25¢

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