Issue Details

Issue	#11
Published	May 1954
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Harvey Kurtzman
Notes	Character appearances, Department names and other miscellaneous info for this issue added by Donald Dale Milne, December 2008.

Cover Details - "Beautiful Girl of the Month Reads MAD"

Synopsis	Parody of LIFE cover.
Genre	satire; parody
Pencils	Basil Wolverton (mixed media, signed)
Inks	Basil Wolverton (mixed media, signed)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Character appearances, Department names and other miscellaneous info for this issue added by Donald Dale Milne, December 2008.
Reprinted	in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn]; in Mad (EC, 1952 Series) #494 (October 2008)

1 page Mad Magazine promo (ad from the publisher) "Beware of Imitations!"

Synopsis	House ad for MAD, comparing it to Life Magazine.
Genre	satire; parody
Pencils	Jack Davis
Inks	Jack Davis
Notes	Inside front cover.
Reprinted	in Mad Reader, The (Ballantine Books, 1954 series) #93; in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn]

8 page Science-Fiction Dept. story "Flesh Garden!"

Characters	Flesh; Dale; an alien; Dr. Noah Zark; a Zork; a Zorchton; a Zilchtron; Owlmen; Rockmen; Treemen; Grassmen; Airmen; King Mong
Synopsis	Flesh defeats aliens and the champion of King Mong but refuses to return to Earth.
Genre	satire; parody
Script	Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils	Wally Wood (signed)
Inks	Wally Wood (signed)
Colors	Marie Severin ?
Notes	Parody of Flash Gordon.
Reprinted	in Mad Reader, The (Ballantine Books, 1954 series) #93; in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn]; Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4

6 page Special Feature Dept. story "MAD Reader!"

Synopsis	Portraits of MAD readers.
Genre	satire; parody
Script	Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils	Basil Wolverton (signed)
Inks	Basil Wolverton (signed)
Colors	Marie Severin ?
Reprinted	in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4; MAD Special [MAD Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #12

1 page Panic promo (ad from the publisher) "I Dreamed I Went to a Fraternity Smoker in My Panic Magazine!"

Synopsis	House ad for subscriptions for Panic (EC, 1954 series)
Genre	humor
Pencils	Jack Davis (signed)
Inks	Jack Davis (signed)
Colors	Marie Severin ?

1 page Cloak-And-Dagger Dept. text story "Operation Under-the-Ground Chapter 87 [Chapter 5]"

Characters	Five Fingers Jones; Lavrenti Buried; Floppova Movova
Synopsis	Five Fingers is tortured.
Genre	satire; parody
Script	?; Harvey Kurtzman
Letters	typeset
Notes	Listed as Chapter 87.
Reprinted	in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4

3 page Quickie Comic Dept. story "Murder the Husband!"

Characters	Walter Graham; Kenneth Martin
Synopsis	A man murders his lover's husband but also manages to sink the rowboat he and the husband are in.
Genre	crime
Script	Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein
Pencils	Jack Davis (signed)
Inks	Jack Davis (signed)
Colors	Marie Severin ?
Reprinted	From Crime Suspenstories (EC, 1950 series) #12 (August-September 1952)

3 page story "Murder the Story!"

Characters	Cracker Graham; Melvin Martin
Synopsis	Humorous rescripting of a crime story.
Genre	satire; parody
Script	Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils	Jack Davis (signed)
Inks	Jack Davis (signed)
Colors	Marie Severin ?
Reprinted	From Crime Suspenstories (EC, 1950 series) #12 (August-September 1952) [art only]; in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4

1 page Mad Magazine promo (ad from the publisher) "Beware of Imitations!"

Synopsis	House ad for MAD.
Pencils	Jack Davis
Inks	Jack Davis
Colors	Marie Severin ?
Reprinted	in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn]

1 page MAD Mumblings letters page "MAD Mumblings"

Synopsis	Letters of comment from Ted Wagner, Madison WS; the Franz Liszt Fan Club; Shirley Lierden; Fred Weld, Santa Barbara, CA; Mrs. R.A. Griggs; Leon Grube, Louisville, KY; Don MacDougall, Tuscon, AZ; Carles Harless; Eddie Kamien, Lancaster, NY; Bernard Bonario, Houston, TX; Mrs. John L. Kramer, Pittsburgh, PA; Zogg; and E.C. Fan-Addict #141
Letters	typeset

7 page Crime Dept. story "Dragged Net!"

Characters	Joe Friday; Ed Saturday; Chief Mike Sunday; Shermlock Shomes (cameo); Dr. Whatsit (cameo); murderer; bank robber; Willie Elder
Synopsis	Parody of the crime television series, Dragnet.
Genre	satire; parody
Script	Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils	Will Elder
Inks	Will Elder
Colors	Marie Severin ?
Reprinted	in Mad Reader, The (Ballantine Books, 1954 series) #93; Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4

1 page Stuart Greetings advertisement "Extra Money"

Synopsis	Ad for Stuart Greetings, Inc.
Letters	typeset

1 page National Radio Institute advertisement "I Will Train You at Home for Good Pay Jobs in Radio-Television"

Characters	J. E. Smith
Synopsis	Ad for National Radio Institute.
Pencils	? (photograph)
Inks	? (photograph)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Inside back cover.

1 page Charles Atlas advertisement "Let Me Give You a New He-Man Body!"

Characters	Charles Atlas
Synopsis	An ad for the Charles Atlas booklet, "Everlasting Health and Strength."
Pencils	? (photograph)
Inks	? (photograph)
Letters	typeset
Notes	On back cover.