Mad
#9
(February-March 1954)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-12
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Educational Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
EC An Entertaining Comic
- Editing
- Harvey Kurtzman (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
A copy for sale at Mile High Comics in Denver, CO has a date stamp of December 15 on it; while Date Stamps cannot be 100% relied upon, this should mean the on-sale date can be picked up as December 1953, if nothing else.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman (signed as
H.Kurtz(figure of a man)) - Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman (signed as H.Kurtz(figure of a man))
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman (signed as H.Kurtz(figure of a man))
- Colors
- Harvey Kurtzman (see notes); Marie Severin ? (coding for separations)
- Letters
- Harvey Kurtzman
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The bad ones are coming, Marshall...
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Reprints
-
in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #12 (1973) - in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986), #2 (1986)
- in Mad about the Fifties (Little, Brown, 1997 series) (1997)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #3 (Spring 1998)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
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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.
So What? So You, Too, Can Join the E.C. Fan-Addict Club!
E.C. Fan-Addict Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- House ad for E.C. Fan-Addict Club membership.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Little Orphan Melvin!
Girl-And-Dog-Type-Story 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
- humor; satire-parody; children
- Characters
- Little Orphan Melvin; Daddy Peacebucks; Punjoke; Gravel; Ax L. Maxl; The Gasp!; Mommy Peacebucks
- Synopsis
- Daddy is continually too late to save Melvin from danger, and also cannot save himself from Mommy.
- Reprints
- in Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #4 (October 1956) which is reprinted
- in Utterly Mad (ibooks, 2002 series) (June 2002)
- in Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #4 (December 1963)
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #15 (1975)
- in Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #[4] (July 1976)
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #3 (Spring 1998)
- in Mad about Comic Strips (EC, 2003 series) (2003)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
- in Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood (EC, 2015 series) (2015)
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Indexer Notes
A parody of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. Includes a stanza of a poem by Byron.
The Raven
Classical Type Comics Dept. / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Edgar Allan Poe (credited) (original); Harvey Kurtzman (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed as That raven maniac, Elder)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed as That raven maniac, Elder)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; horror-suspense
- Characters
- a raven; the narrator; Lenore
- Synopsis
- An adaptation of Poe's poem "The Raven."
- Reprints
- in Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #4 (October 1956) which is reprinted
- in Utterly Mad (ibooks, 2002 series) (June 2002)
- in Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #4 (December 1963), #[4] (July 1976)
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
-
in USA magazine (Albin Michel, 1986 series) #26 (mars 1987) - in Mad about the Fifties (Little, Brown, 1997 series) (1997)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #3 (Spring 1998)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
- in Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (EC, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #33 (October 2023)
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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).
[no title indexed]
Mad Mumblings / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman (illustration)
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman (illustration)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
-
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Henry Hartz in Utica, New York; Keith Nutt in Midland, Texas; Ann Slavin in West Haven, Connecticutt; Dick Clarkson in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ben Jones in Quinwood, West Virginia; Jerry Schuler in Rochester, New York; Clyde Waddell in Alexandria, Louisiana; Ann Busch in Buffalo, New York; and Raoul D’Arcy.
Script and colors credits from The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2.
Yep Kiddies! E.C.'s New Humor Mag, Panic, Is On Sale
Panic / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Melvin; Irving
- Synopsis
- A subscription ad for Panic.
Indexer Notes
Subscription ad for Panic.
Bop Jokes!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed as
SEVERIN) - Inks
- John Severin (signed as SEVERIN)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Five gags using Bop terms.
- Reprints
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #3 (Spring 1998)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
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Indexer Notes
Includes a 1-page Bop Dictionary, so reader can understand the gags.
Operation Under the Ground [Chapter 3]
Cloak-And-Dagger Dept. / text story / 1 page
- Script
- Jerry De Fuccio ? (credited as Jerry DeFuccio); Harvey Kurtzman ? (see notes)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Five Fingers Jones; Floppova Movova
- Synopsis
- Five Fingers meets Floppova while searching Moscow for the artificial dirt factory.
- Reprints
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #3 (Spring 1998)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
-
Indexer Notes
Script: Sources vary. De Fuccio credit is from The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2. Kitchen and Buhle assert that “Harvey Kurtzman wrote every word from front to back” of this issue (2009, 83).
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Reference:
Kitchen, Denis, and Paul Buhle. 2009. The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics. New York: Abrams ComicArts.
Hah! Noon!
Western Dept. / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed as
JACK DAVIS) - Inks
- Jack Davis (signed as JACK DAVIS)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; western-frontier
- Characters
- Marshall Kane; Mrs. Kane; Marshall Floodnick; Killer Diller Miller; Ramona
- Synopsis
- Marshall Kane dithers about leaving town, beats up another marshall, and kills some accomplices of Miller before subduing Miller without violence.
- Reprints
- in The Bedside Mad (New American Library, 1959 series) #S1647 (April 1959), #D2316 (February 1964), #P3520 (c 1969)
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #12 (1973)
- in The Bedside Mad (Warner Books, 1973 series) #6 (88-893) (April 1979)
- in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
- in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #3 (Spring 1998)
- in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
- in Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (EC, 2015 series) (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
A parody of the Gary Cooper film "High Noon."
Get Shop-Method Home Training
National Schools Home Training / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- An ad for National Schools vocational training.
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["The bad ones are coming, Marshall..."]
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1.
So What? So You, Too, Can Join the E.C. Fan-Addict Club!
E.C. Fan-Addict Club -
2.
Little Orphan Melvin!
Girl-And-Dog-Type-Story Dept. -
3.
The Raven
Classical Type Comics Dept. -
4.
[no title indexed]
Mad Mumblings -
5.
Yep Kiddies! E.C.'s New Humor Mag, Panic, Is On Sale
Panic -
6.
Bop Jokes!
-
7.
Operation Under the Ground [Chapter 3]
Cloak-And-Dagger Dept. -
8.
Hah! Noon!
Western Dept. -
9.
Get Shop-Method Home Training
National Schools Home Training -
10.
It's Great Fun to Play a Guitar and So Easy Ttoo!
Lonnie And Wayne, Studio -
11.
The New Way To Enjoy Sports, Movies, Plays, Television
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