Mad
#483
(November 2007)
EC,
1952 Series
- Price
- 3.99 USD
- Pages
- 56
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- E.C. Publications Inc.
- Barcode
- ?
- Editing
- John Ficarra (credited) (editor)
Our Brain-Dead Zombie Issue!
Alfred E. Neuman / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman
Undead And Unrated
Flight of The Living Dead / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for DVD of movie from New Line Home Entertainment.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Departments
table of contents / 1 page
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman; Toucan Sam
Indexer Notes
Art is from various places in the magazine. The feature "The Booth Fairy Department" is phony and does not actually appear in the issue.
Random Samplings of Reader Mail
Letters and Tomatoes Department [Letters and Tomatoes Dept.] / letters page / 1.67 pages
- Script
- John Ficarra; Joyce Carol Oates; Caleb Oldham; Sam Barron; David Norris; Cooper Maestas; William Helton
- Pencils
- William Helton; ? (photo)
- Inks
- William Helton; ? (photo)
- Colors
- William Helton; ? (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Alfred E.Neuman; Chuck D.
- Synopsis
- Letters, photos and fan art.
Indexer Notes
Piece by Joyce Carol Oates is an excerpt from a TIME Magazine interview.
Human History Just Got A Little Less Human
Resistance Fall of Man / advertisement / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- Ad for game from Insomniac games.
Indexer Notes
First page appears between pages 1-2 of letters pages.
The Fundalini Pages
Random Acts of Mindless Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Michael Vick; George Bush; Mitt Romney; Ralph "The Stickler" Backne; Joe Bitterman
- Synopsis
- Various short satires of pop culture.
- Reprints
-
in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #33 (October 2023)
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Indexer Notes
Contributors (roles unknown) include: Sergio Aragones; John Caldwell; Duck Edwing; Todd Eisner; Garth Gerhart; Jeff Kruse; Jacob Lambers; Scott Maiko; Ben Schultz; Michael Slack; Jack Syracuse; Rick Tulka; Jason Yungbluth
Segments include: The Fast 5; The Zombie Food Pyramid; Little-Known Provisions In The 2007 Immigration Bill; Duck Droppings; Movie Screw-Ups; Meet The '08 Presidential Candidates; Fundalini Asks "What If...?"; The Godfrey Report; The Yungbluth & the Restless; Bitterman
Get Transformers First On DVD 10.16.07
Transformers / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for movie DVD from Dreamworks.
When Other Advertising Characters Get TV Shows
Sit-Commercials Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Geico cavemen; Verizon guy; Marlee Matlin; Travelocity gnome; Heather Locklear; Doris Roberts; Mrs. Butterworth; Toucan Sam; Steve Shirripa; Tony the Tiger; Lisa Kudrow; Andy Richter; PC guy; Mac guy
- Synopsis
- Plot outlines for tv shows based on advertising characters.
Clive Barker's Jericho
Jericho / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for game from Imajica Productions / Alchemic Productions.
Rejected Hillary Clinton Campaign Slogans
The Phrase That Slays Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Nathaniel Stein
- Pencils
- Paul Coker
- Inks
- Paul Coker
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton
- Synopsis
- Bad campaign slogans for Hillary's presidential campaign.
Empower Your Imagination
Full Sail / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for Full Sail School of Computer Animation.
Another Fruitless Issue!
MAD Classics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman
- Synopsis
- House ad for Latest issue of MAD Classics.
A MAD Look At Zombies
Serge-In General Dept. [Serge In General Dept.] / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Things that could go wrong for zombies, or because of them.
- Reprints
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #33 (October 2023)
-
Drizzt Is Willing To Let The Orcs Begin A New Chapter
The Orc King / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Drizzt
- Synopsis
- Ad for book by R. A. Salvatore from Wizards of The Coast.
Planet TAD!!!!!
In Blog We Trust Dept. / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Tad; Tad's mom; April Dawson; Kevin; Chuck; Julie Kahn; Samantha Scanlon; Violet Liu; Nina Patterson; Sara Jacobsen; Kate McLean; Susan Regan; Stu Lawrence
- Synopsis
- Story of notes left on Tad's locker from a secret admirer.
Unfurl Stories Of The Great Asian Powers
Age of Empires III / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for game from Microsoft/Ensemble Studios/Big Huge Games.
The Strip Club
Pen and Stink Dept. / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Rob Harrell; Dan Long; Jason Yungbluth; Paul Gilligan; Keith Knight; Scott Nickel; Douglas Paszkeiwicz
- Pencils
- Rob Harrell; Dan Long; Jason Yungbluth; Paul Gilligan; Keith Knight; Scott Nickel; Douglas Paszkeiwicz
- Inks
- Rob Harrell; Dan Long; Jason Yungbluth; Paul Gilligan; Keith Knight; Scott Nickel; Douglas Paszkeiwicz
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Rob Harrell; Dan Long; Jason Yungbluth; Paul Gilligan; Keith Knight; Scott Nickel; Douglas Paszkeiwicz
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- King Ticklebunny; Father Flannity; Nicole Richie; The Boogieman
- Synopsis
- A collection of comic strips including Pondering The Really Meaningful Stuff...; The Long And Short Of It; Elf Droppings; Jump Cut; Father Flannity's Hot Tub Confessions; Product Placement In Horror Movies; Just Below The Surface.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Zombie Ninja Pro-Am / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for game from Midway Home Entertainment.
The Magical Bear That Made People's Dreams Come True
The Beast And The Brightest Dept.; MAD's Inspirational Animal Stories / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Eliot Pressman; Malvolio
- Synopsis
- Story about a boy who grows up to buy a bear and his fantasies of the magic the bear performs.
Indexer Notes
Fourth in a series.
One Day At Lincoln High
Love Is In The Err Dept. / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A boy discovers his teacher is not into teacher-student relationships.
To End His Thirst For Blood, You Must Develop One Of Your Own.
Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for game from Konami.
Idiotic Anti-Gun Control Arguments The NRA Hasn't Used - Yet!
Shoot Happens Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Thomas Jefferson; Michael Moore
- Synopsis
- Improbable arguments for not controlling guns.
Season Three...What's Next?
NBC; USA Network / advertisement / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bo Bridges (photo)
- Inks
- Bo Bridges (photo)
- Colors
- Bo Bridges (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- ?
- Characters
- Bucky Lasek
- Synopsis
- Ad for AST Dew Tour on the NBC and USA networks.
Things That Really Get Under A Zombie's Skin
Monsters' Gall Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Problems that zombies would run into if they tried to live normal lives.
- Reprints
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #33 (October 2023)
-
Spy Vs. Spy
Joke & Dagger Dept. [Joke and Dagger Dept.]; Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy
- Synopsis
- In the first strip, the Black Spy tries to get into a White facility using a lifted fingerprint from the White Spy, but is clobbered anyway. In the second strip, the White Spy is done in by a fake guillotine.
Indexer Notes
There are two strips.
What School Bus Drivers Are Doing While You're In Class!
The Wheel World Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Teresa Burns Parkhurst
- Pencils
- Teresa Burns Parkhurst
- Inks
- Teresa Burns Parkhurst
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Teresa Burns Parkhurst; typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Goofy ideas of what school bus drivers do in their downtime.
- Reprints
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #33 (October 2023)
-
7 Periods Closer To Death
Is That Rall There Is? Dept. / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- What can happen when the schools remove restroom stall doors.
Battling Evil From The Sea To Outer Space
Aquaman; The Super Powers Team / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Aquaman; Superman; Batman; Robin; Wonder Woman; Cyborg; Firestorm
- Synopsis
- Ad for cartoon DVDs from Warner Home Video.
Millions of Trees Gave Their Lives For These Books
MAD books / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for the following MAD books: Spy Vs. Spy 2; MAD About Star Wars; The MAD War on Bush; The Completely MAD Don Martin.
1 Is Worse Than 100
Take This Mob And Shove It Dept. / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Boob Braggit; Henry Laporte; George Wendt; Paris Hilton; Vicki Newton; Bob Barker
- Synopsis
- The show bumbles along at its usual slow pace until Bob Barker shows up and closes it down.
Indexer Notes
Parody of tv show 1 Versus 100.
What The Heck Is The Difference?
Observation Dreck Dept. / activity / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Don Martin (original, signed); ? (changes)
- Inks
- Don Martin (original, signed); ? (changes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman
- Synopsis
- Cover of MAD #165 with a variation to find the differences on.
- Reprints
- from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #165 (March 1974)
-
Strength In Numbers
Justice League Padlocks / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for combination locks.
What Little Rat-Faced Chef Raked In Millions This Year?
Mad Fold-In / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- "Ratatouille" kitchen staff; Rachael Ray
- Synopsis
- Answer is: Rachael Ray.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Drawn-Out Dramas
Marginal Thinking Dept. / comic story / 0 pages
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Gags appear on 9 different pages.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Our Brain-Dead Zombie Issue!
Alfred E. Neuman -
1.
Undead And Unrated
Flight of The Living Dead -
2.
Departments
-
3.
Random Samplings of Reader Mail
Letters and Tomatoes Department [Letters and Tomatoes Dept.] -
4.
[no title indexed]
-
5.
Human History Just Got A Little Less Human
Resistance Fall of Man -
6.
The Fundalini Pages
Random Acts of Mindless Dept. -
7.
Get Transformers First On DVD 10.16.07
Transformers -
8.
When Other Advertising Characters Get TV Shows
Sit-Commercials Dept. -
9.
Clive Barker's Jericho
Jericho -
10.
Rejected Hillary Clinton Campaign Slogans
The Phrase That Slays Dept. -
11.
Empower Your Imagination
Full Sail -
12.
Another Fruitless Issue!
MAD Classics -
13.
A MAD Look At Zombies
Serge-In General Dept. [Serge In General Dept.] -
14.
Drizzt Is Willing To Let The Orcs Begin A New Chapter
The Orc King -
15.
Planet TAD!!!!!
In Blog We Trust Dept. -
16.
Unfurl Stories Of The Great Asian Powers
Age of Empires III -
17.
The Strip Club
Pen and Stink Dept. -
18.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Zombie Ninja Pro-Am -
19.
The Magical Bear That Made People's Dreams Come True
The Beast And The Brightest Dept.; MAD's Inspirational Animal Stories -
20.
One Day At Lincoln High
Love Is In The Err Dept. -
21.
To End His Thirst For Blood, You Must Develop One Of Your Own.
Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles -
22.
Idiotic Anti-Gun Control Arguments The NRA Hasn't Used - Yet!
Shoot Happens Dept. -
23.
Season Three...What's Next?
NBC; USA Network -
24.
Things That Really Get Under A Zombie's Skin
Monsters' Gall Dept. -
25.
Spy Vs. Spy
Joke & Dagger Dept. [Joke and Dagger Dept.]; Spy vs. Spy -
26.
What School Bus Drivers Are Doing While You're In Class!
The Wheel World Dept. -
27.
7 Periods Closer To Death
Is That Rall There Is? Dept. -
28.
Battling Evil From The Sea To Outer Space
Aquaman; The Super Powers Team -
29.
Millions of Trees Gave Their Lives For These Books
MAD books -
30.
1 Is Worse Than 100
Take This Mob And Shove It Dept. -
31.
What The Heck Is The Difference?
Observation Dreck Dept. -
32.
Strength In Numbers
Justice League Padlocks -
33.
What Little Rat-Faced Chef Raked In Millions This Year?
Mad Fold-In -
34.
Drawn-Out Dramas
Marginal Thinking Dept. -
35.
The Shadow You Cast Is The Shadow They Fear
Blue Dragon
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