Issue | #44 |
Published | January 1959 |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Notes | Back cover is same window scene, but from Alfred's viewpoint. The logo of the soft drink Moxie appears in about every other article. |
Characters | Alfred E. Neuman |
Genre | humor |
Pencils | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
Inks | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
Colors | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Back cover is same window scene, but from Alfred's viewpoint. The logo of the soft drink Moxie appears in about every other article. |
Synopsis | Phony ad for Culvert Reserve Whiskey. |
Genre | satire |
Pencils | Kelly Freas (signed) |
Inks | Kelly Freas (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Parody of ad for Calvert Reserve Whiskey. |
Pencils | various |
Inks | various |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Art is excerpts from this issue. |
Characters | Alfred E. Neuman |
Synopsis | House ad for hardcover book from Crown Publishers. |
Pencils | ? (photo) |
Inks | ? (photo) |
Letters | typeset |
Synopsis | House ad for a MAD paperback book. |
Pencils | ? (photo) |
Inks | ? (photo) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Albert B. Feldstein |
Synopsis | Letters of comment, mostly about issue #42. |
Script | Albert B. Feldstein; Harold Chamberlain; Cronley's Barber Shop; Knut Schaad; Jonathan Williams; Jerry Bourasaw; Barbara Nace; Bjorn Petersson; Johnny Lunsford; Arthur Marchino; Howard Hoffman; Leslie Naman |
Pencils | Larry Maleman (photo); ? (photo) |
Inks | Larry Maleman (photo); ? (photo) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Two photos of Feldstein; one is from house ad for MAD tee shirts in MAD #42. |
Characters | Alfred E. Neuman |
Synopsis | House ad for pinups suitable for framing. |
Pencils | Norman Mingo (painted) |
Inks | Norman Mingo (painted) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Alfred E. Neuman |
Synopsis | House ad for MAD subscriptions. |
Pencils | Wally Wood |
Inks | Wally Wood |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Art matches art from "Alfred E. Neuman's Family Tree " article in this issue. |
Synopsis | Showing the larger boring scenes that exciting movie previews are supposedly taken from. |
Genre | satire |
Script | Frank Jacobs |
Pencils | Wally Wood |
Inks | Wally Wood |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
Synopsis | Ads we might see if countries advertised like other products, instead of communicating their ideologies and accomplishments as they currently do. |
Genre | satire |
Script | Frank Jacobs |
Pencils | Bob Clarke (signed) |
Inks | Bob Clarke (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Barry Grue; Martin Dean; Virginia Charity |
Synopsis | Telethon to pump up the number of highway fatalities to meet the numbers announced before the holiday. |
Genre | satire |
Script | Dee Caruso; Bill Levine |
Pencils | Mort Drucker (signed) |
Inks | Mort Drucker (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. One character in cameo appears to be Scribbly Jibbet. |
Characters | Little Red Riding Hood; Dennis The Menace |
Synopsis | Possible kids' editions of popular magazines, including: Junior Confessions, Tiny Homes and Gardens; Sports Infantile; Truant; Tyke; Pedal Trend; The Saturday Evening Tot. |
Genre | satire |
Script | Tom Koch |
Pencils | Wally Wood (signed) |
Inks | Wally Wood (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
Synopsis | 3 cartoons of the dangers of summer. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Don Martin (signed) |
Pencils | Don Martin (signed) |
Inks | Don Martin (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Richard Furd |
Synopsis | Satirical look at the sport of basketball. |
Genre | satire |
Pencils | George Woodbridge (signed) |
Inks | George Woodbridge (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Not a single black player is depicted. |
Characters | Nu Mun; Tut-Ankh-Nu-Men; Socrates Numanos; Nerd Numinus; Alfred The Hun; Alfred The Chicken-Harted; Johannes Nuemanberg; Christopher Numunbus; Amerigo Numanucci; Michaelanumano; Elder Neuman; Sir Isaac Neuman; Benjamin Neuman; General George Neuman; Paul Neuman; Patrick Neuman; Abraham Neuman; Jefferson Davis Neuman; Nikolai Neumanski; Teddy Neuman; William Jennings Neuman; Thomas Alva Neuman; Alfred E. Neuman |
Synopsis | Famous ancestors of Alfred, with very brief biographical notes and dates of birth and death. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Tom Koch |
Pencils | Wally Wood |
Inks | Wally Wood |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
Synopsis | Thoughts on what could happen if the concept of signals were extended to everyday life events. |
Genre | satire |
Script | Dave Berg (signed) |
Pencils | Dave Berg (signed) |
Inks | Dave Berg (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Elfrida Von Nardroff; Charles Van Doren; Nikita Khrushchev; Ed Sullivan; Alfred E. Neuman |
Synopsis | Phony Christmas cards from celebrities to other celebrities. |
Genre | satire |
Script | Frank Jacobs |
Pencils | Bob Clarke (signed) |
Inks | Bob Clarke (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
Synopsis | Useless explanations of various types of graphs. |
Genre | satire |
Script | Frank Jacobs |
Pencils | Albert B. Feldstein ?; Joe Orlando |
Inks | Albert B. Feldstein ?; Joe Orlando |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
Characters | Frankenstein's monster |
Synopsis | When the villagers finally corner the monster he responds by signing autographs. |
Genre | satire |
Script | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Pencils | Joe Orlando (signed) |
Inks | Joe Orlando (signed) |
Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
Synopsis | Various methods of inducing sleep. |
Genre | humor |
Pencils | George Woodbridge (signed) |
Inks | George Woodbridge (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Synopsis | Possible long book titles based on a the recent success of book by Robert Paul Smith. |
Genre | satire |
Script | C. Memling |
Pencils | Bob Clarke (signed) |
Inks | Bob Clarke (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
Characters | Bob Elliott; Ray Goulding; Wally Ballew; Ludlow J. Poindexter |
Synopsis | Showing how the electrical company supposedly controls refrigerator lights and other appliance lights from a central headquarters. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Bob Elliott; Ray Goulding |
Pencils | Mort Drucker (signed) |
Inks | Mort Drucker (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Elihu J. Sternwallow; Pop Schlepp; Woodruff Durfendorfer |
Synopsis | Fictitious company magazine for North American Veeblefetzer Co. |
Genre | satire |
Script | Tom Koch |
Pencils | Joe Orlando |
Inks | Joe Orlando |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
Synopsis | Two cartoons: a toddler unwraps his older brother instead of the present, and a woman's hair turns into a New Year's noisemaker. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Don Martin (signed) |
Pencils | Don Martin (signed) |
Inks | Don Martin (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Synopsis | House ad for t-shirts with Alfred E. Neuman on front. |
Pencils | Larry Maleman (photo) |
Inks | Larry Maleman (photo) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | On inside back cover. |
Synopsis | Items once associated with a celebrity, but no longer needed. |
Genre | humor |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Appear in the margins of 20 pages of the issue. |
Characters | Moxie Cowznofsky |
Pencils | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
Inks | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
Colors | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
Notes | The front cover as seen from Alfred's viewpoint. Moxie Cowznofsky is named in letters column of issue #48. |