MAD Special [MAD Super Special] #36

(Fall 1981)

One Day in the Comics Suburbs (Table of Contents)

Mad / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Arnoldo Franchioni

Pencils:

Jack Rickard

Inks:

Jack Rickard

Colors:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl; Dagwood; Blondie; Daisy Mae;
Li'l Abner

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #153 (September 1972)

Indexer Notes

Inside Front Cover (full color)

[Table of Contents] (Table of Contents)

Mad Super Special / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Comic Strips They'd Really Like to Do (Table of Contents)

Strip Teasers Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Charles Schulz; Walt Kelly; Allen Saunders; Mort Walker; Mell Lazarus

Pencils:

Charles Schulz; Walt Kelly; Ken Ernst; Mort Walker; Mell Lazarus

Inks:

Charles Schulz; Walt Kelly; Ken Ernst; Mort Walker; Mell Lazarus

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Charlie Brown; Pogo; Mary Worth; Beetle Bailey;
Miss Peach

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #89 (September 1964)

Indexer Notes

Also includes photos (no credits given) of Schulz,
Kelly, Ernst, Saunders, Walker, and Lazarus.

If Comic Strip Characters Answered Those Little Ads (Table of Contents)

Rush Money-Order Today Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Little Orphan Annie; Dick Tracy; Donald Duck;
Nancy; Sluggo; Alley Oop; Henry; The Phantom; Dagwood Bumstead; Blondie; Popeye; Olive Oyl

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #35 (October 1957)

The Mad "Comic" Opera (Table of Contents)

Song of India Ink Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Frank Jacobs

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Dick Tracy; Mickey Finn; Tarzan; Rex Morgan;
Dagwood Bumstead; Henry; Sandy; Flash Gordon;
Clark Kent [Superman]; Steve Canyon; Daddy Warbucks; Annie; Snuffy Smith; Loweezy; Gumps;
Prince Valiant; Donald Duck; Jiggs; Maggie; Joe
Palooka; Humphrey; Mark Trail; Li'l Abner;
Daisy Mae; Red Ryder; Mandrake; Archie; Fritzi
Ritz; Katzenjammer Kids; Eugene the Jeep; Alley
Oop; Moon Mullins; Kayo; Linus Van Pelt; Blondie
Bumstead; Mary Worth; Mr. Dithers; Olive Oyl;
Smokey Stover; Phantom; Dondi; Smilin' Jack

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #56 (July 1960)

More Powerful Than a Locomotive ... (Table of Contents)

From "Super" to Nuts Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sergio Aragones

Pencils:

Sergio Aragones

Inks:

Sergio Aragones

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #172 (January 1975)

Adult TV Cartoons (Table of Contents)

Drawing on an Old Format Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Jaffee

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Freddy Flintstoner; Barney; Ralphy; Norton; Mickey
Mouse; Croc Paar; Groucho Owl

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

Indexer Notes

Parodies of The Flintstones, The Honeymooners,
Untouchables, Candid Camera, To Tell the Truth,
Jack Paar Show, You Bet Your Life, and Person to
Person.

Will Success Spoil Charlie Brown? (Table of Contents)

No Longer Working for Peanuts Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Larry Siegel

Pencils:

Jack Rickard

Inks:

Jack Rickard

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Shermy; Lucy; Schroeder; Linus; Pigpen; Violet;
Peppermint Patty; Snoopy; Patty; Charlie Brown

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #117 (March 1968)

Don Martin Looks at Spider-Man (Table of Contents)

Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Don Martin

Pencils:

Don Martin

Inks:

Don Martin

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Spider-Man

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #212 (January 1980)

Comicland (Table of Contents)

Funnies Are People Dept. / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Frank Jacobs; E. Nelson Bridwell

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Orphan Annie; Sandy; Prince Valiant; Superman;
Donald Duck; Henry; Daisy Mae; Nancy; Smitty;
Dondi; Alexander Bumstead; Charlie Brown; Little
Lulu; Kayo Mullins; Marcia Mason; Junior Tracy;
Mary Worth; Hans Katzenjammer; Fritz Katzenjammer

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #82 (October 1963)

If Comic Characters Were Psychoanalyzed (Table of Contents)

Pen and "Shrink" Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Frank Jacobs

Pencils:

Bob Clarke

Inks:

Bob Clarke

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Dagwood; Blondie; Cookie; Alexander; Mr. Dithers;
Charlie Brown; Snoopy; Donald Duck; Beetle Bailey;
Sarge; Mary Worth

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

A Mad Look at Super Heroes (Table of Contents)

Comic Shnook's Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sergio Aragones

Pencils:

Sergio Aragones

Inks:

Sergio Aragones

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Superman; Wonder Woman; Plastic Man; Batman;
Billy Batson [Captain Marvel]; Flash; Captain
America; Spider-Man; Thor; Green Lantern

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #177 (September 1975)

Nansy (Table of Contents)

Newspaper Comics Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Nansy; Pinocchio; Pat Patton; Junior Tracy

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #32 (April 1957)

Misery Is a Cold Hot Dog (Table of Contents)

Roasted Peanuts Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Larry Siegel

Pencils:

Bob Clarke

Inks:

Bob Clarke

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Charlie Brown; Marcia Mason; Herbie; Nancy; Sluggo; Dondi; Kayo Mullins; Orphan Annie; Little
Iodine; Archie; Henry; Little Lulu; Dennis Mitchell; Swee'pea; Hans Katzenjammer; Fritz Katzenjammer; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Chip Flagston;
Junior Tracy; Alexander Bumstead; Jughaid; Pepper;
Trixie Flagston

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

If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Ordinary People (Table of Contents)

What Mortals These Fools Be Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Jaffee

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Charlie Brown; Lucy; Snoopy; Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Daddy Warbucks; Annie; Superman; Pogo
Possum; Albert Alligator; Mandrake; Lothar;
B.C.; Maggie; Jiggs; Dennis Mitchell; Henry
Mitchell; Alice Mitchell

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #81 (September 1963)

If Famous Authors Wrote the Comics (Table of Contents)

High Flown Balloons Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Frank Jacobs

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Huey; Dewey; Louie; Donald Duck; Dick Tracy;
Flattop; Pruneface; Charlie Brown; Snoopy; Lucy;
Schroeder; Hans Katzenjammer; Fritz Katzenjammer;
Captain; Rex Morgan; Little Orphan Annie; Daddy
Warbucks; Asp; Sandy; Nancy; Sluggo; Fritzi Ritz;
Dennis Mitchell

Synopsis:

Premise: what if Paddy Chayefsky wrote Donald
Duck? Gilbert & Sullivan, Dick Tracy? Rudyard
Kipling, Peanuts? Walt Whitman, The Katzenjammer
Kids? Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rex Morgan, M.D.?
Tennessee Williams, Little Orphan Annie? Mickey
Spillane, Nancy? And Edgar Allan Poe, Dennis the
Menace?

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #46 (April 1959)

If the World's Great Painters Drew the Comics (Table of Contents)

"Pop" Goes the Easel Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Frank Jacobs

Pencils:

Jack Rickard

Inks:

Jack Rickard

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #137 (September 1970)

Indexer Notes

Comics drawn in the styles of Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Grant Wood, Millet, Rousseau, and
Whistler.

A Mad Portfolio of Appropriate Comic Strip Sound Effects (Table of Contents)

Punch in the Noise Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Earle Doud

Pencils:

Bob Clarke

Inks:

Bob Clarke

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Dennis Mitchell; Henry
Mitchell; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Mutt;
Jeff; Charlie Brown; Dagwood Bumstead; Mr. Dithers; Oliver Warbucks; Beetle Bailey; Mary
Perkins; Dick Tracy; Rick O'Shay; Marcia Mason

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

Future Educational Comic Pamphlets (Table of Contents)

Funny Pitches Dept. / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Larry Siegel

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh;
Popeye; President Kennedy; Olive Oyl; Bluto; Mary
Worth

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

A Mad Look at Superman (Table of Contents)

Shnook ... Up in the Sky! Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Don Edwing

Pencils:

Don Martin

Inks:

Don Martin

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White;
Jimmy Olsen; Hulk; Batman; Wonder Woman

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #208 (July 1979)

If "Peanuts" Were a Weekly TV Series (Table of Contents)

Doing It Up "Brown" Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Lou Silverstone

Pencils:

Jack Rickard

Inks:

Jack Rickard

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Charlie Brown; Schroeder; Lucy Van Pelt; Snoopy;
Linus Van Pelt; Peppermint Patty; Sally Brown;
Woodstock

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

The Comic Strip Characters' Christmas Party (Table of Contents)

Never on Sunday-Pages Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gary Belkin

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Mr. Dithers; Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell;
Moonbeam McSwine; Dick Tracy; Rex Morgan; Steve
Canyon; Terry Lee; Little King; Louie; Henry;
Ferd'nand; Col. Potterby; Pottsy; Fearless Fosdick; Mickey Finn; Hi Flagston; Lois Flagston;
Joe Palooka; Archie; Penny; Tarzan; Prince Valiant; Mary Perkins; Phantom; Mandrake; Lothar;
Fritzi Ritz; Snuffy Smith; Major Hoople; Minnie
Mouse; Donald Duck; Churchy La Femme; Pigpen;
Charlie Brown; Popeye; Saint; Horace Dripple;
Dotty Dripple; Swee'pea; Lucy Van Pelt; Nancy;
Junior Tracy; Smitty; Herby; Moon Mullins; Smokey
Stover; Schroeder; Alley Oop; Felix the Cat;
Shmoo; B.C.; Eugene the Jeep; Mary Worth; Lone
Ranger; Maggie; Jiggs; Snoopy; Albert Alligator;
Pogo Possum; Quincy Magoo; Miss Peach; Marcia
Mason; Oliver Warbucks; Annie; Sandy; Kayo Mullins; Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead;
Hans Katzenjammer; Fritz Katzenjammer; Jeff;
Rip Kirby; Desmond; Dondi; Mark Trail; Gravel
Gertie; Hairless Joe

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #68 (January 1962)

Indexer Notes

Two-page spread.

Comics for Publications That Don't Have Comics (Table of Contents)

Someday Supplement Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Frank Jacobs

Pencils:

Bob Clarke

Inks:

Bob Clarke

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Dagwood Bumstead; Blondie Bumstead; J.C. Dithers;
Charlie Brown; Goofy; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey;
Louie; Daisy Duck; Scrooge McDuck; Annie; Oliver
Warbucks; Sandy; Hy Fashion; General Abercrombie;
Albert Alligator; Pogo Possum; Ty Coon; Dennis
Mitchell

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #88 (July 1964)

If Comic Strip Artists Drew Editorial Cartoons (Table of Contents)

With a Little Bit of Puck Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Alley Oop; Mary Worth; Jiggs; Superman; Charlie
Brown; Linus; Snoopy; Lucy; Schroeder; Dennis
Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Alice Mitchell; Li'l
Abner; Daisy Mae; Oliver Warbucks; Annie; Popeye;
Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh; Nancy; Sluggo;
Morticia Addams

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #45 (March 1959)

Tell-Tale Comic Strip Balloons (Table of Contents)

True-to-Form Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Don Edwing

Pencils:

Bob Clarke

Inks:

Bob Clarke

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Rex Morgan; Lois Flagston; Trixie Flagston; J.C.
Dithers; Dagwood Bumstead; Popeye; Olive Oyl;
Mary Worth; Brenda Starr; Scamp; Dennis Mitchell;
Henry Mitchell; Major Hoople; Andy Capp; Charlie
Brown; Lucy; Linus; Schroeder; Patty; Violet;
Smitty; Redeye; Li'l Abner; Daisy Mae; Archie
Andrews; Veronica Lodge

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #160 (July 1973)

A Super Opportunity (Table of Contents)

You Kent Win 'Em All Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sergio Aragones

Pencils:

Sergio Aragones

Inks:

Sergio Aragones

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Clark Kent [Superman]

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #190 (April 1977)

If Comic Strip Characters Were as Old as Their Strips (Table of Contents)

The Yellowed Kids' Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Earle Doud

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Superman; Lois Lane; Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Junior Tracy; Popeye; Bluto; Swee'pea; Wimpy; Abner Yokum;
Daisy Mae Yokum; Fearless Fosdick; Mandrake;
Lothar; Tarzan; Jane; Henry; Dennis Mitchell

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #72 (July 1962)

A Mad Look at Batman (Table of Contents)

West-Ward-Ho-Ho! Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sergio Aragones

Pencils:

Sergio Aragones

Inks:

Sergio Aragones

Letters:

Sergio Aragones

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Batman; Robin

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

The End of Comics (Table of Contents)

Installment Overdue Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Wally Wood

Inks:

Wally Wood

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Little Orphan Annie; Oliver Warbucks; Mandrake;
Lothar; Pogo Possum; Albert Alligator; Porky Pine;
Churchy La Femme; Mamselle Hepzibah; Howland Owl;
Dick Tracy; Junior Tracy; Pat Patton; Mary Worth;
Mammy Yokum; Al Capp; Pappy Yokum; Li'l Abner
Yokum; Daisy Mae; Dennis Mitchell; Smilin' Jack;
Blondie Bumstead; Henry

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #43 (December 1958)

Obituraries for Comic Strip Characters (Table of Contents)

R.I.P. Kirby Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Frank Jacobs

Pencils:

various

Inks:

various

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Oliver Warbucks; Hans Katzenjammer; Fritz Katzenjammer; Nancy Fritz; Donald Duck; Smilin'
Jack Martin; Dick Tracy; Mandrake J. Mandrake;
Henry Smith; Dagwood Bumstead

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

Indexer Notes

Indexer originally listed art credits, both pencils and inks, as "Fabian Madrach; Bradford Madrach" but art appears to be parts of art from other sequences listed in this issue, and neither Madrach is listed in credits for any MAD issue on the "Totally MAD" CD.

Which Modern Artist Is Most Successfully Communicating With His Audience? (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Al Jaffee

Pencils:

Al Jaffee (signed)

Inks:

Al Jaffee

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #126 (April 1969)

Indexer Notes

Inside Back Cover (full color)

[Superman's Super-Hernia] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Don Edwing

Pencils:

Don Martin

Inks:

Don Martin

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Superman

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• from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #208 (July 1979)

Indexer Notes

Back Cover. Title from table of contents of "Totally MAD" CD.