Mad
#6
(August - September 1953)
EC,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-05-25
- 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, January-June 1953, page 92, registration number B417265.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
- Colors
- Harvey Kurtzman (see notes); Marie Severin ? (coding for separations)
- Letters
- Harvey Kurtzman
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bah! We haven't found a trace of anything!
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
-
in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #21 (1976) - 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) #2 (Winter 1997)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
- in Artist's Edition (IDW, 2010 series) #[9] - MAD
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #20 (August 2021)
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Indexer Notes
Marie Severin addressed on at least two occasions the coloring of art created or edited by Harvey Kurtzman. In remarks published in 1995, she said “Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers.” And in response to a 1986 question about Kurtzman and MAD covers, she said “Now I might have interpreted, but I don’t remember. I think he did every one of them. I might have helped out with some production or something, but it’s all Harvey” (Ringgenberg 2016, 88).
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References:
Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
Ringgenberg, Steven. 2016. “Marie Severin.” In The Comics Journal Library Vol. 10: The EC Artists Part 2, edited by Michael Dean, 84–95. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books.
Ringgenberg, Steven. [2016] 2018. “An Interview with Marie Severin.” The Comics Journal, September 5. Accessed June 18, 2023. https://www.tcj.com/an-interview-with-marie-severin.
Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly about Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.
If You Haven’t Been Able to Find ‘MAD’ on Your Local Newsstand...
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
House ad for MAD subscriptions. On inside front cover.
Teddy and the Pirates!
High-Type Adventure Dept. / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as
Wood) - Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Teddy; Half-Shot; Pat O’Bryan; Burma Shave; Mr. Sandthirst; Connie; Big-Poop; The Dragging Lady; The Pirates
- Synopsis
- Teddy and Half-Shot are assigned to keep an opium shipment out of the hands of The Pirates, but one of them is an inside man.
- Reprints
- in Mad Strikes Back (Ballantine Books, 1955 series) #[nn] (May 1955), #491K (February 1961), #01564 (March 1969), #03373-6 (July 1973)
-
in Stripschrift (Het Stripschap, 1968 series) #99 (maart-april 1977) - in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #2 (Winter 1997)
- in Mad Strikes Back (ibooks, 2002 series) (March 2002)
- 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.
Melvin of the Apes!
Jungle Dept. / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman (credited as Egad (Long Grain) Rice Burroughs)
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed as Melvin Severin)
- Inks
- John Severin (signed as Melvin Severin)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor; jungle
- Characters
- Melvin of The Apes [Lord Melvin Greystroke]; Jane; Ookaballakonga tribe; Whitegreen Greystroke; Brown Greystroke; Veridian Greystroke; Magenta Greystroke; Duke Greystroke; Duchess Fuscia Greystroke
- Synopsis
- The Greystrokes take Melvin back to London but then flee him by going to Africa.
- Reprints
- in Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #4 (October 1956) which is reprinted
- in Utterly Mad (ibooks, 2002 series) (June 2002)
- in Mad for Keeps (Crown Publishers, 1958 series) (July 1958)
- in The Brothers Mad (Ballantine Books, 1958 series) #5 (U2105) (December 1963)
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #9 (1972)
- in The Brothers Mad (Ballantine Books, 1958 series) #5 (24331) (January 1975)
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #21 (1976)
- in The Brothers Mad (Ballantine Books, 1958 series) #25283 [5] (June 1976)
- in Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #[4] (July 1976)
- 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) #2 (Winter 1997)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
- in Mad for Decades (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2007 series) (2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Ookaballakonga is spelled Ookabollakonga in this story.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
We at E.C. Are Proudest of Our Science-Fiction Magazines!
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.
Hevo the Great
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman (illustration)
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman (illustration)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hevo Franklin; Red Haring
- Synopsis
- Mock interview with a basketball star Hevo Franklin, from Adison Square Grove.
- Reprints
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #7 (Fall 1999)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1.
[no title indexed]
Mad Mumblings / letters page / 1 page
- Reprints
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
-
Indexer Notes
Letters from Melvyn Thomas, Paul Colandrea, Thomas Mellinger, Mons. David Pait, Tony Sodd, Armstead Napier, Walter C. Schalm & Carl Heald, Joe Lazare, Pfc. Leon A. Reid, Paul M. Dubbs, Barbara Muth (Mrs.), R. Thompson, Pat Armstrong.
Casey at the Bat!
Poetry Dept. / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Ernest Lawrence Thayer (original); Harvey Kurtzman (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed as
JACK DAVIS) - Inks
- Jack Davis (signed as JACK DAVIS)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Cooney; Burrows; Flynn; Blake; Casey; umpire
- Synopsis
- Casey has a chance to hit the winning runs in a baseball game, but strikes out for the loss.
- Reprints
- in The Bedside Mad (New American Library, 1959 series) #S1647 (April 1959), #D2316 (February 1964), #P3520 (c 1969)
- in The Bedside Mad (Warner Books, 1973 series) #6 (88-893) (April 1979)
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #2 (Winter 1997)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
- in Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (EC, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #21 (October 2021)
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Indexer Notes
This is the text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations.
Script credit from The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986).
Ping Pong!
Horror Dept. / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed as Bull Elder)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed as Bull Elder)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cecil B. V. D. Mill; ship’s captain; ship’s crew; Mr. Mill’s cameraman; Lana Lynn; Pong; Ookabolaponga tribe
- Synopsis
- Lana subdues Pong and Mr. Mill has him towed back to New York, only to find none of them quite fit in.
- Reprints
- in Mad Strikes Back (Ballantine Books, 1955 series) #[nn] (May 1955), #491K (February 1961), #01564 (March 1969)
-
in Charlie Mensuel (Éditions du Square, 1969 series) #47 (décembre 1972) - in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #12 (1973)
- in Mad Strikes Back (Ballantine Books, 1955 series) #03373-6 (July 1973)
- 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) #2 (Winter 1997)
- in Mad Strikes Back (ibooks, 2002 series) (March 2002)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 ([September] 2002)
- in Mad for Decades (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2007 series) (2007)
- in Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (EC, 2015 series) (2015)
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Indexer Notes
A parody of the King Kong movie.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
Your Favorite Snapshots Photos or Negatives Made Into Treasures You Will Keep and Cherish Forever
Hollywood Film Studios Enlargements / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Ad for photo enlargements.
Thrills & Fun Galore!
Space Commander Vibro-Matic Walkie Talkies [Vibra-Planet] / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Ad for toy from Consumers Mart. On inside back cover.
They Mailed This Coupon
Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Charles Atlas
Indexer Notes
Ad for body-building method. On back cover.
Editing
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Table of Contents
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0.
["Bah! We haven't found a trace of anything!"]
-
1.
If You Haven’t Been Able to Find ‘MAD’ on Your Local Newsstand...
-
2.
Teddy and the Pirates!
High-Type Adventure Dept. -
3.
Melvin of the Apes!
Jungle Dept. -
4.
We at E.C. Are Proudest of Our Science-Fiction Magazines!
E.C. comics -
5.
Hevo the Great
-
6.
[no title indexed]
Mad Mumblings -
7.
Casey at the Bat!
Poetry Dept. -
8.
Ping Pong!
Horror Dept. -
9.
Your Favorite Snapshots Photos or Negatives Made Into Treasures You Will Keep and Cherish Forever
Hollywood Film Studios Enlargements -
10.
Thrills & Fun Galore!
Space Commander Vibro-Matic Walkie Talkies [Vibra-Planet] -
11.
They Mailed This Coupon
Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System
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- Bill Devine
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- Gregory Fischer
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- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Tom Vincent
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