Mad #12

(June 1954)

Stoppit! (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Will Elder (signed)

Inks:

Will Elder (signed)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

House ad for Panic subscriptions.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Starchie (Table of Contents)

Teen-Age Comics Dept. / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils:

Will Elder (signed)

Inks:

Will Elder (signed)

Colors:

Marie Severin ?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

satire; parody

Characters:

Starchie Standrews; Bottleneck; Mr. Weathernot; Little Orphan Melvin (cameo); Cookie Bumstead (cameo); Salonica; Biddy; Wedgie Van Smelt; Mr. Standrews; Mrs. Standrews; Dick Tracy (cameo)

Synopsis:

Bottleneck frames Starchie so that Starchie goes to prison and Bottleneck can take over the girls and rackets at the high school.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in The Mad Reader (Ballantine Books, 1954 series) #93 (November 1954)
• in MAD Special [MAD Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #18 (1975)
• in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn] (1997)
• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4 (Summer 1998)

Indexer Notes

A parody of Archie comic books.

From Eternity Back to Here! (Table of Contents)

Moving Picture Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils:

Bernie Krigstein (signed)

Inks:

Bernie Krigstein (signed)

Colors:

Marie Severin ?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

satire; parody

Characters:

Sgt. Gaym Warden; Captain Sherlock Homes; Prew Prewitt; Mrs. Homes; Jodie Majjio; Fatso; Mrs. Kipper; Princess

Synopsis:

Prewitt will not fight, no matter what, and Sgt. Warden and Mrs. Homes drown on the beach.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

Parody of the movie "From Here to Eternity."

Operation Under-the-Ground [Chapter 6] (Table of Contents)

Cloak-And-Dagger Dept. / text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?; Harvey Kurtzman

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Five Fingers Jones; Floppovo Movova; Lavrenti Buried

Synopsis:

Five Fingers is killed and the story is farshimmelt.

Indexer Notes

Almost half of the page is blank space.

Do People Laugh at You for Reading Comic Books? (Table of Contents)

Mad Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Davis (signed)

Inks:

Jack Davis (signed)

Colors:

Marie Severin ?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

House ad for MAD subscriptions.

MAD Mumblings (Table of Contents)

MAD Mumblings / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Letters of comment from Sandy Milne, National City, CA; John Savocks, Clifton, NJ; Collren Irwin, Azuza, CA; A. Katt; Jack the Maniac, Redwood City, CA; James Ellis Knoxville, TN; John Lanctot Burlington, VT; Jean LeMorpion, New York, NY; Hugh Redmon, Oklahoma City, OK; Eddie Schneider Miami Beach, FL; George Vampire, New York, NY

3-Dimensions! (Table of Contents)

Odd (3-D) Comics Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils:

Wally Wood (signed)

Inks:

Wally Wood (signed)

Colors:

Marie Severin ?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

satire; parody

Characters:

MAD writer; MAD artist

Synopsis:

A phony description of how 3-D comics are made and a look at what can go wrong.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

The final page is completely blank.

Mark Trade! (Table of Contents)

Nature Lover's Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Colors:

Marie Severin ?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

satire; parody

Characters:

Mark Trade; Mr. Tamesplinter; Morsemere; Sandy; scouts

Synopsis:

Parody of the comic strip Mark Trail, finding Mark sick and tired of nature.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Inside Mad (Ballantine Books, 1955 series) #124 (November 1955)
• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4 (Summer 1998)

Get Shop-Method Home Training (Table of Contents)

National Schools / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (photograph)

Inks:

? (photograph)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Editing:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

Ad for National Schools.

Send for My FREE Outfit and start a Quick-Cash Spare Time Shoe Business! (Table of Contents)

Mason Shoes / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (photograph)

Inks:

? (photograph)

Letters:

typeset

Editing:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

Ad for Mason Shoe Manufacturing Company.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

The World Is On Fire (Table of Contents)

The FUNMan / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Editing:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

Ad for the FUNman religious motto sales.

Indexer Notes

On back cover.