Mad
#2
(December 1952-January 1953)
EC,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-09-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Educational Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
EC An Entertaining Comic
- Editing
- Harvey Kurtzman (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1952, page 145, registration number B377409.
[no title indexed]
Mad / cover / 1 page
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I...I Feel It In My Bones! Someone Is Giving Me The Evil Eye!
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Casey; Old Dame
- Reprints
-
in Mad (Superior, 1952 series) #2 ([circa January 1953]) -
in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986) - in Mad about the Fifties (Little, Brown, 1997 series) (1997)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
- in Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (EC, 2015 series) (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover based on the story, "Hex!".
E.C. Fans!
Weird Fantasy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Feldstein (signed)
- Inks
- Al Feldstein (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
House ad for Weird Fantasy #16. On inside front cover.
Hex!
Terror Dept. / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed as Melvin Davis)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed as Melvin Davis)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense; satire-parody
- 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 The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
- in Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (EC, 2015 series) (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
Melvin!
Jungle Dept.; Melvin of The Apes / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed as Melvin Severin)
- Inks
- John Severin (signed as Melvin Severin)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- 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) #4 (December 1963)
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
-
Indexer Notes
A parody of Tarzan.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
E.C. Fans!
E.C. comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
House ad for E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence.
Lady-In-Mascara
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman (illustration)
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman (illustration)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- 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 The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4 (Summer 1998)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1.
Calling Cosmo McMoon!
Cosmo McMoon / text story / 1 page
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman (illustration)
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman (illustration)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody; science fiction
- 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 The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1.
Gookum!
Science-Fiction Dept. / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as Melvin Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Melvin Wood)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- humor; science fiction; satire-parody
- 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 The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
- in Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood (EC, 2015 series) (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
Mole!
Crime Dept. / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed as Melvin Elder)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed as Melvin Elder)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- humor; crime; satire-parody
- 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] which is reprinted
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #4 (1987)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #8 (Winter 1999)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #4 (2012 [January 2013])
- in Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (EC, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #24 (1977)
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in Mad about the Fifties (Little, Brown, 1997 series) (1997)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
- in Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (EC, 2015 series) (2015)
-
Special... Introductory Offer
H. & S. Sales Co. / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Ad for combination cigarette lighter / cigarettee case.
Be A Success As a Radio-Television Technician
National Radio Institute / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- J. E. Smith
Indexer Notes
Ad for tv and radio repair training. On inside back cover.
Check the Kind of Body You Want!
Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Charles Atlas
Indexer Notes
Ad for body-building course. On back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["I...I Feel It In My Bones! Someone Is Giving Me The Evil Eye!"]
Mad -
1.
E.C. Fans!
Weird Fantasy -
2.
Hex!
Terror Dept. -
3.
Melvin!
Jungle Dept.; Melvin of The Apes -
4.
E.C. Fans!
E.C. comics -
5.
Lady-In-Mascara
-
6.
Calling Cosmo McMoon!
Cosmo McMoon -
7.
Gookum!
Science-Fiction Dept. -
8.
Mole!
Crime Dept. -
9.
Special... Introductory Offer
H. & S. Sales Co. -
10.
Be A Success As a Radio-Television Technician
National Radio Institute -
11.
Check the Kind of Body You Want!
Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Bill Devine
- Hector G. Dueñas G.
- Michael Hoskin
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mark Q
- Jim Van Dore
- Terry Watkins
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