The Mad Make Out Book

A single, wild 1979 one-shot from Warner Books, The Mad Make Out Book is exactly what its title promises: a parody of teen romance and dating manuals filtered through the irreverent lens of Mad magazine’s signature satire. Packed with the magazine’s trademark cartoon gags and lampoons of adolescent angst, it stands as a peculiar, standalone artifact of the Mad brand’s 1970s expansion into humor paperbacks. Its lasting curiosity lies in how it captures a specific, goofy moment in pop culture—a time when even the most cringeworthy teenage rituals could be turned into a punchline.