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Issue Details

Issue #169
Published September 1974
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 52
Editing Albert B. Feldstein

Cover Details - "Serpicool and McClod"

Characters Serpicool; Alfred E. Neuman; McClod
Genre Humor; Satire
Pencils Mort Drucker (signed)
Inks Mort Drucker (signed)

1 page Scenes We'd Like to See: Fairy Tales story "The Frog Prince"

Genre Humor; Satire
Script Jan Van Wessum
Pencils Jack Rickard
Inks Jack Rickard
Notes Inside Front Cover (full color)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Table of Contents"

Genre Fact
Pencils Various
Letters Typeset

2 page Letters Dept. letters page "Letters Dept."

Genre Fact
Letters Typeset

8 page Graft Dodger Dept. story "Serpicool"

Characters Serpicool; Dirty Harry (cameo)
Genre Humor; Satire
Script Stan Hart
Pencils Mort Drucker
Inks Mort Drucker
Letters Typeset
Notes Parody of movie "Serpico"

4 page Add-vertising Dept. story "Trademark Graffiti"

Genre Humor
Script Al Jaffee
Pencils Al Jaffee
Inks Al Jaffee

1 page filler "Alfrede's Poor Almanac"

Characters Alfred E. Neuman
Genre Humor
Letters Typeset
Notes Title is a spoof of Benjamin's Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack."

6 page The Bare Facts Dept. story "A Mad History of Sex"

Genre Humor
Script Larry Siegel
Pencils George Woodbridge
Inks George Woodbridge
Letters Typeset

1 page Don Martin Dept. story "Don Martin Dept. Part 1: One Day in the City"

Genre Humor
Script Don Martin
Pencils Don Martin
Inks Don Martin

5 page The Lighter Side of... story "The Lighter Side of... the High Cost of Living"

Genre Humor
Script Dave Berg
Pencils Dave Berg
Inks Dave Berg
Letters Typeset

3 page Staking Acclaim Dept. story "A Mad Guide to Status Symbols"

Genre Humor
Script Tom Koch
Pencils Paul Coker, Jr.
Inks Paul Coker, Jr.
Letters Typeset

1 page Don Martin Dept. story "Don Martin Dept. Part 2: One Day at Notre Dame"

Genre Humor; Satire
Script Don Martin
Pencils Don Martin
Inks Don Martin
Letters Typeset

3 page Cash and Bury Dept. story "A Mad Look at Funerals"

Genre Humor
Script Stan Hart
Pencils Bob Clarke
Inks Bob Clarke
Letters Typeset

2 page Hitting the Pitch Dept. text article "Follow-Up Letters to Advertisers"

Genre Humor
Script Dick De Bartolo

1 page Post Exchanges Dept. filler "Talking Stamps"

Characters Patrick Henry; Thomas Jefferson; Susan B. Anthony; Betsy Ross; Christopher Columbus; Neil Armstrong; Thomas A. Edison; Pope Paul VI
Genre Humor
Pencils Photographs (furnished by Dumont Stamp Co., N.Y.C.)
Inks Photographs (furnished by Dumont Stamp Co., N.Y.C.)
Letters Typeset

3 page Court Jesting Dept. story "The Mad Tennis Primer"

Genre Humor
Script Larry Siegel
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Letters Typeset

1 page Don Martin Dept. story "Don Martin Dept. Part 3: One Day in the Patent Office"

Genre Humor
Script Don Martin
Pencils Don Martin
Inks Don Martin
Letters Don Martin

6 page Plainclothesman Dept. story "McClod"

Characters Marshal Simp McClod; Chief; Commissioner
Synopsis Premise: would a hard-riding, gun-toting, square-jawed, straight-shooting Marshal from New Mexico really help New York solve its crime problem?
Genre Humor; Satire
Script Lou Silverstone
Pencils Angelo Torres
Inks Angelo Torres
Letters Typeset
Notes Parody of television series "McCloud"

1 page Mad Fold-In activity "Mad Fold-In"

Genre Humor
Script Al Jaffee
Pencils Al Jaffee
Inks Al Jaffee
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside Back Cover (full color)

1 page Another Mad Mini-Poster illustration "Save the Eagle!"

Genre Humor
Pencils Bob Clarke
Inks Bob Clarke
Notes Back Cover