Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #38 [$1.75]

(Spring 1982)

Early One Morning in the Near Future (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Pencils

George Woodbridge (credited)

Inks

George Woodbridge (credited)

Colors

George Woodbridge (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A man must hack through the thick covering of junk in order to fish the river below.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #163 (December 1973)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Departments (Table of Contents: 2)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Sergio Aragonés

Inks

Sergio Aragonés

Letters

typeset

Rockhead (Table of Contents: 3)

It's Stallone Ranger! Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Hart (credited)

Pencils

Mort Drucker (credited)

Inks

Mort Drucker (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody; adventure

Characters

Rockhead; Appalling Greed; Atrium; Bawly

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #194 (October 1977)

Indexer Notes

Spoof of the motion picture "Rocky"

The Mad Baseball Primer (Table of Contents: 4)

Learning the Score Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Hart (credited)

Pencils

Jack Rickard (credited)

Inks

Jack Rickard (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

Primer on what to expect when going to the ballpark to see a game.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #80 (July 1963)

Keywords

baseball

Don Martin on the Golf Course (Table of Contents: 5)

Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Pencils

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Inks

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

Golfers experience odd occurrences on the links.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #125 (March 1969)

Keywords

golf

A Mad Look at Winter Sports (Table of Contents: 6)

Ice-Elation Dept. / cartoon / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Pencils

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Inks

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A skier has an accident; an ice fisher has an accident; a bobsled team has an accident; a ski jumper picked up some unwanted passengers; a figure skating team has an accident.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #94 (April 1965)

Keywords

bobsled; ice fishing; skating; skiing

You Know You're Really a Football Fan When... (Table of Contents: 7)

Off the Pigskin Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Hart (credited)

Pencils

Jack Davis (credited)

Inks

Jack Davis (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

Examples of behavior that identifies a person as an obsessed football fan.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #140 (January 1971)

Keywords

football

One Day at the Ocean (Table of Contents: 8)

Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Pencils

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Inks

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

Surf's up for a ship wrecked survivor.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #138 (October 1970)

The Mad Game of Basebrawl (Table of Contents: 9)

Diamond and the Rough Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Jaffee (credited)

Pencils

Al Jaffee (credited)

Inks

Al Jaffee (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

Altering the rules of baseball to make it more violent and therefore more exciting.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #167 (June 1974)

Keywords

baseball

What Coaches Say... (Table of Contents: 10)

Switch Pitch Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Peter Porges (credited)

Pencils

Jack Davis (credited)

Inks

Jack Davis (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

Things sports coaches say about their player in public, compared to what they say in private.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #145 (September 1971)

A Psalm for a Sabbath Morning (Table of Contents: 11)

Tee-Ology Dept. / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

William Garvin (credited)

Pencils

Paul Coker (credited as Paul Coker Jr.)

Inks

Paul Coker (credited as Paul Coker Jr.)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

A psalm dedicated to Sunday golfers.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #114 (October 1967)

Keywords

golf

What's the Dirtiest Play in Modern Football? (Table of Contents: 12)

Mad Fold-In / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Jaffee (credited)

Pencils

Al Jaffee (credited, signed)

Inks

Al Jaffee (credited, signed)

Letters

typeset

Genre

satire-parody; humor

Synopsis

Example of what's ruining football.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #107 (December 1966)

Keywords

football

The Mad Ice Hockey Primer (Table of Contents: 13)

Sport 'n' Blood Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Larry Siegel (credited)

Pencils

Jack Davis (credited)

Inks

Jack Davis (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

Examination of the sport of ice hockey, presented in the form of a child's reading primer.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #125 (March 1969)

Keywords

hockey

A Mad Look at Hunting (Table of Contents: 14)

The Forest's Prime Evil Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Pencils

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Inks

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Genre

humor

Synopsis

Various hunter types and hunting situations are satirized.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #155 (December 1972)

Keywords

hunting

Sports Typography (Table of Contents: 15)

Slug It Out Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Archie De Silva ?

Pencils

Archie De Silva (credited)

Inks

Archie De Silva (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

Text characters laid out to visually tell the story.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #63 (June 1961)

The Hunter (Table of Contents: 16)

Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Pencils

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Inks

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A hunter tests a new moose call.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #85 (March 1964)

Keywords

hunting

Surfing (Table of Contents: 17)

Only For the Board-Minded Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Jaffee (credited)

Pencils

George Woodbridge (credited)

Inks

George Woodbridge (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

Satirical look at the sport of surfing.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #98 (October 1965)

Keywords

surfing

Howard at the Mike (Table of Contents: 18)

Sports-Blaster Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Jacobs (credited)

Pencils

Jack Davis (credited)

Inks

Jack Davis (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Characters

Howard Cosell; Frank Gifford; Don Meredith; Lily Tomlin [as Miss Tomlin of the Telephone Company]

Synopsis

An ode, patterned after Ernest Lawrence Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat", to the importance of announcer Howard Cosell to the popularity of ABC's Monday Night Football.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #155 (December 1972)

In the Locker Room (Table of Contents: 19)

Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Pencils

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Inks

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A football coach tries to improve a player's football knowledge.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #109 (March 1967)

Keywords

football

The Little League Hall of Fame (Table of Contents: 20)

Brat-and-Ball Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Tom Koch (credited)

Pencils

Joe Orlando (credited)

Inks

Joe Orlando (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody; sports

Characters

Alfred E. Neuman

Synopsis

A Hall Of Fame for Little League ballplayers.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #66 (October 1961)

Keywords

baseball

Indexer Notes

One of the inductees is Alfred E. Neuman.

A Mad Look at the Joys of Scuba Diving (Table of Contents: 21)

Glub-Glub Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Jaffee (credited); Dick DeBartolo (credited as Dick De Bartolo)

Pencils

Bob Clarke (credited)

Inks

Bob Clarke (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

A satirical look at the sport of scuba diving.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #106 (October 1966)

Keywords

scuba diving

A Sports Fan's Garden of Verses (Table of Contents: 22)

Athletic Pentameter Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Jacobs (credited)

Pencils

Jack Davis (credited)

Inks

Jack Davis (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Alfred E. Neuman; Lew Alcindor; Joe Namath; Rod Taylor; Dean Martin; Fred MacMurray; Chuck Connors; Al Hirt; Curt Gowdy; Jim Nabors; Jack Lemmon; Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis

Poems based on various sports themes. Poems included are: Broadway Joe; Skis; The Sportsman's Hour; Doubleday; I Must Go Out to the Track Again; Lew Alcindor; On the Road to Baltimore; Come Bowl with Me; and The Hometown Goalie.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #138 (October 1970)

Who Are the Disaster Victims That Nobody Helps? (Table of Contents: 23)

Mad Fold-In / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Jaffee (credited)

Pencils

Al Jaffee (credited, signed)

Inks

Al Jaffee (credited, signed)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

Al Jaffee points out one disaster area that remains a disaster area.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #98 (October 1965)

Keywords

New York Mets

The Mad Gun Owners and Other Small Bores Primer (Table of Contents: 24)

Nuts With Bolts Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Larry Siegel (credited)

Pencils

George Woodbridge (credited)

Inks

George Woodbridge (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

Satirical look at guns, gun owners and hunters, presented in a children's primer format.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #95 (June 1965)

Keywords

hunting

On a Saturday Afternoon (Table of Contents: 25)

Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Pencils

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Inks

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A man spends a less-than-successful afternoon skydiving.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #128 (July 1969)

Keywords

skydiving

A Nostalgic Look at Sandlot Baseball (Table of Contents: 26)

Hits, Runs and An Era Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Dean Norman (credited)

Pencils

Paul Coker (credited as Paul Coker Jr.)

Inks

Paul Coker (credited as Paul Coker Jr.)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A look back at how boys played baseball before organized Little League baseball.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #121 (September 1968)

Keywords

baseball

Mad Magazine Introduces 43-man Squamish (Table of Contents: 27)

There's a Soccer Born Every Minute Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Tom Koch (credited)

Pencils

George Woodbridge (credited)

Inks

George Woodbridge (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

Mad creates a new sport, a combination of polo, soccer and gang fighting.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #95 (June 1965)

A Mad Look at Bicycling (Table of Contents: 28)

Chain Reaction Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Pencils

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Inks

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

Examples of the bad side of riding a bike.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #152 (July 1972)

Keywords

bicycling

Outdoor Sports Indoors (Table of Contents: 29)

Homebody-Building Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Al Jaffee (credited)

Pencils

Al Jaffee (credited)

Inks

Al Jaffee (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

Methods of playing outdoor sports inside, since urban sprawl has eliminated going outside to play.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #111 (June 1967)

The Sports Spectators' Hall of Fame (Table of Contents: 30)

Athletic Supporters Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Tom Koch (credited)

Pencils

Jack Davis (credited)

Inks

Jack Davis (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

Busts of fictional sports fans who represent specific types of fans.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #149 (March 1972)

One Night at the Fights (Table of Contents: 31)

Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Pencils

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Inks

Don Martin (signed as D. MARTiN)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

The corner men of a professional fighter get a little too mechanical in their jobs.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #134 (April 1970)

Keywords

boxing

The Longest Yardbird (Table of Contents: 32)

Reynolds' Rap Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Arnie Kogen (credited)

Pencils

Angelo Torres (credited, signed)

Inks

Angelo Torres (credited, signed)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Burt Reynolds [as Crude]; Eddie Albert [as Warden Hazard]; Ed Lauter [as Capt. Clobber]; Michael Conrad [as Nate Scarbooboo]; James Hampton [as Carefaker]; Richard Kiel [as Tarzan Finster]

Synopsis

In a parody of the film "The Longest Yard," a sadistic prison warden forces a prisoner to join his prison football team.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #176 (July 1975)

Keywords

football

The Finish (Table of Contents: 33)

Race Riot Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Woodbridge (credited)

Inks

George Woodbridge (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Synopsis

An auto race ends badly.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #93 (March 1965)

What Special-Interest Group Is Benefiting Most from Our Jammed Courts? (Table of Contents: 34)

Mad Fold-In / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Jaffee (credited)

Pencils

Al Jaffee (credited, signed)

Inks

Al Jaffee (credited, signed)

Colors

Al Jaffee

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

It's not the kind of court you're thinking of.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #174 (April 1975)

Keywords

tennis

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

One Day at the Beach (Table of Contents: 35)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Sergio Aragonés (credited)

Pencils

Don Martin (credited, signed)

Inks

Don Martin (credited, signed)

Colors

Don Martin

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A surfer proves to be more graceful on the water than out of it.

Reprints

• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #120 (July 1968)

Keywords

surfing

Indexer Notes

On back cover.