Mad #2

(December 1952-January 1953)

E.C. Fans! (Table of Contents)

Weird Fantasy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Feldstein (signed)

Inks:

Al Feldstein (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

House ad for Weird Fantasy #16. On inside front cover.

Hex! (Table of Contents)

Terror Dept. / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult; humor

Characters:

Casey; Yeggi Bora; Leo; the Old Dame; Stan Musical; Preacher Rowboat; Eddy Stunky; Melvin Demoogio

Synopsis:

Casey's team wins the pennant but loses Casey to the Old Dame.

Reprints:

• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)

Melvin! (Table of Contents)

Jungle Dept.; Melvin of The Apes / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Severin

Inks:

John Severin

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Melvin of The Apes; Boy; Jane; Ookaballakonga tribe

Synopsis:

Melvin escapes from the Ookaballakonga tribe with the help of the jungle animals but the tribe shrinks Boy's head.

Reprints:

• in Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #U2104 (December 1963)
• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)

Indexer Notes

A parody of Tarzan.

E.C. Fans! (Table of Contents)

E.C. comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

House ad for E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence.

Lady-In-Mascara (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Monongahela Wheeler; Bablou O'Brien; Lady-In-Mascara; Max; Minx

Synopsis:

Mo Wheeler believes he's solving a crime but the Lady leads him to a morning radio interview instead.

Reprints:

• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4 (Summer 1998)

Calling Cosmo McMoon! (Table of Contents)

Cosmo McMoon / text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Cosmo McMoon; F. M. Wavelength; Walla-Walla Bazinski; Croton-on-the-Hudson Bazinski; Baden-Baden Bazinski

Synopsis:

Cosmo discovers a baby who is blending all radio broadcasts into a single program.

Reprints:

• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)

Gookum! (Table of Contents)

Science-Fiction Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Wally Wood [as Melvin Wood]

Inks:

Wally Wood [as Melvin Wood]

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; science fiction

Characters:

Glarf Nerfnick; Glarf's grandfather; Melvin

Synopsis:

A Martian escapes the Gookum on his home planet only to find it apparently exists on Earth also.

Reprints:

• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)

Mole! (Table of Contents)

Crime Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils:

Bill Elder

Inks:

Bill Elder

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Melvin Mole

Synopsis:

Melvin is captured during a bank robbery and continually digs his way out of jail.

Reprints:

• in Mad (EC, 1952 series) #22 (April 1955) [with splash panel omitted]
• in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown, 1997 series) #[nn] (1997)
• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)

Special...Introductory Offer (Table of Contents)

H. & S. Sales Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Editing:

?

Indexer Notes

Ad for combination cigarette lighter / cigarettee case.

Be A Success As a Radio-Television Technician (Table of Contents)

National Radio Institute / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Letters:

typeset

Editing:

?

Content Information

Characters:

J. E. Smith

Indexer Notes

Ad for tv and radio repair training. On inside back cover.

Check The Kind of Body You Want! (Table of Contents)

Charles Atlas / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Editing:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Charles Atlas

Indexer Notes

Ad for body-building course. On back cover.