- Script
- Al Feldstein ?
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Phony ad for Ethel, exhorting everyone to drive more.
- Reprints
Parody of Ethyl Corp. gasoline additive ads. Some characters based on Pogo comic strip. Possible Feldstein script per Feldstein: The Mad life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Al Feldstein; Jonathan Swift (quoted text)
- Pencils
- various
- Inks
- various
- Letters
- typeset
Art is excerpts from this issue. Quote under the masthead is from Swift (1667-1745).
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Phony ad for Severolet, a car that comes in sections and can expand to any desired length.
Script credit confirmed by Feldstein in the book Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein. Parody of ad for Chevrolet station wagon; car drawing resembles one.
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- various
- Inks
- various
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Galahad
Includes correction to the Collegiate Whimsey article in issue #28. First issue to use title "Random Samplings of Reader Mail" but this is only used on the Table of Contents page (and the titles listed there deviate from nearly all of those found on the stories themselves - sometimes considerably). Letters, mostly commenting on issue #28 by Philip Charize; Nathan A, Shotbag; Bob Martinick; Harvey Simons; Bob Tucker; Bill Fried; Max Schneider; James Germain; John Murray Jr.; Alex Dunne; Stan Lamontovich; Tony Gristina; Paul Johnson; Murray Loew; Roger Johnson; Frank Veles; John Nellis; Jim McConnell; Ron Freund; Don Evans; Dianne Haber; Chester Swedge and James Layland.
- Script
- Jerry De Fuccio (idea); Al Feldstein (script)
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Free Fall Ferris
- Synopsis
- Story about a mouse who becomes a U.S. astronaut.
- Reprints
Writer/idea credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein. "Totally MAD" CD collection credited DeFuccio with script.
- Script
- Phil Interlandi (signed)
- Pencils
- Phil Interlandi (signed)
- Inks
- Phil Interlandi (signed)
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Synopsis
- Cowboy tries to save a woman in a runaway stage coach by jumping from his horse onto one of the runaway horses... but falls on the ground.
- Reprints
Interlandi script per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Ernie Kovacs (credited)
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Ernie Kovacs
- Synopsis
- Rules for a fictitious board game.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman ?; Al Feldstein ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Examples of types and uses of television remote controls.
- Reprints
Feldstein was unsure if this story was written by him or Kurtzman. Info from the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Quiz with bad examples of dining practices.
- Reprints
Wolverton script per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Tim Wrath [Greg Peckory]; Gene Lockjaw; Mrs. Wrath [Joan Jennifer]; Rosa [Maria Parmesan]
- Synopsis
- Major scenes from the movie, with captions instead of dialog.
Parody of movie "The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit." Writer credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Wilhelm Busch
- Pencils
- Wilhelm Busch
- Inks
- Wilhelm Busch
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hans Huckerbein; Fritz; Auntie Lotten
- Synopsis
- Fritz captures a raven, Hans, and brings it home where it destroys the place until it drinks some wine and dies tangled in some rope. The moral is loosely given as the bad you do will catch up with you.
- Reprints
Cartoon is over 100 years old, by the creator of "Max und Moritz" which was the inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids.
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Don Martin
- Inks
- Don Martin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman
- Synopsis
- Advice for a man who loses everything and wants to hang himself.
- Reprints
Writer credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein. Alfred E. Neuman does not physically resemble the MAD trademark character.
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Melvin Cowznofsky
- Synopsis
- Story of Melvin's summer at Camp Pot-Ra-Zee-Bee.
- Reprints
Script credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen
- Inks
- Jack Kamen
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody; drama
- Synopsis
- A bunch of figures, captions, and titles to cut out and arrange on some background scenes.
- Reprints
Writer and artist credits confirmed per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Mort Pestle; Mickey Toonis; Sid Lumly; George Sturdley; Vava Voom
- Synopsis
- Collection of typical newspaper photos taken to show hot summer weather.
- Reprints
Kurtzman script per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Smedley van Sturdley; Milton Forbisher; Stanley Henkledorf; Walter N. Goober; Beauregard Bordon
- Synopsis
- Bubble gum cards in the Famous Cowards series.
- Reprints
Script credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Phil Interlandi (signed)
- Pencils
- Phil Interlandi (signed)
- Inks
- Phil Interlandi (signed)
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Synopsis
- A man and a woman are running to escape cannibals and she twists an ankle, whereupon the man runs away as the cannibals close in, instead of carrying her.
- Reprints
Script credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Bernard Wiseman (credited as Bernie Wiseman)
- Pencils
- Bernard Wiseman (credited as Bernie Wiseman)
- Inks
- Bernard Wiseman (credited as Bernie Wiseman)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Essay on early human evolution up to the Stone Age.
- Script
- Phil Interlandi (signed)
- Pencils
- Phil Interlandi (signed)
- Inks
- Phil Interlandi (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Synopsis
- After a jockey is fired for taking a bribe, the owner's granddaughter volunteers to ride in the big race. She loses.
- Reprints
Script credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sylvester J. Ike; Cosmo L. Nixon; Stevenson Blung; Irving I. Kefauver; Harriman Twince
- Synopsis
- Predictions for political convention personnel whose names resemble famous politicians.
Script credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Wally Wood; Jack Kamen (home rendering)
- Inks
- Wally Wood; Jack Kamen (home rendering)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Furd famliy
- Synopsis
- The Furds find an attractive real estate ad only to be disappointed by the actual home.
- Reprints
Script credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Don Martin
- Inks
- Don Martin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Advice for a man whose wife plays the tuba at night.
- Reprints
Script credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman ?; Al Feldstein ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mrs. Goodfellow Kringe; Irving Kringe
- Synopsis
- A look at a teenage Rock 'n Roll Romp party and aftermath.
Al Feldstein was unsure if he or Kurtzman wrote this story. Info per Al Feldstein from the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein.
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
Phony ad for Padst Red Ribbon Beer (parody of ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer). Script credit per info from Al Feldstein in the book Al Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein. On back cover.