Mad #29

(September 1956)

The Furious Falcon (Table of Contents)

Ethel / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Wally Wood (signed)

Inks:

Wally Wood (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

Phony ad for Ethel, exhorting everyone to drive more.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Worst from MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)

Indexer Notes

Parody of Ethyl Corp. gasoline additive ads. Some characters based on Pogo comic strip.

Departments (Table of Contents)

Vital Features / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

various

Inks:

various

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Art is excerpts from this issue. Quote under the masthead is from Swift (1667-1745).

The New Expandable Severolet... (Table of Contents)

Severolet / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Wally Wood (signed)

Inks:

Wally Wood (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

Phony ad for Severolet, a car that comes in sections and can expand to any desired length.

Indexer Notes

Parody of ad for Chevrolet station wagon; car drawing resembles one.

If You Haven't Been Able To Find 'MAD' On Your Local Newsstand... (Table of Contents)

Mad Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Elder

Inks:

Bill Elder

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Melvin

Synopsis:

House ad for MAD Magazine subscriptions.

Random Samplings of Reader Mail (Table of Contents)

Letters Dept. / letters page / 1.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein; 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; James Layland

Pencils:

various

Inks:

various

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Galahad

Synopsis:

Letters, mostly commenting on issue #28.

Indexer Notes

Includes correction to the Collegiate Whimsey article in issue #28. First issue to use title "Random Samplings of Reader Mail."

Free Fall Ferris (Table of Contents)

Unsung Heroes Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry DeFuccio

Pencils:

Wally Wood (signed)

Inks:

Wally Wood (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Free Fall Ferris

Synopsis:

Story about a mouse who becomes a U.S. astronaut.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in More Trash From MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)
• in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn] (1997)

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.

Scenes We'd Like To See: The Runaway Stagecoach (Table of Contents)

Hollywood Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Phil Interlandi (signed)

Inks:

Phil Interlandi (signed)

Content Information

Genre:

satire

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.

Gringo (Table of Contents)

Games Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ernie Kovacs

Pencils:

Bill Elder (signed)

Inks:

Bill Elder (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Characters:

Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis:

Rules for a fictitious board game.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in MAD for Keeps (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1958 series) #[nn] (July 1958)
• in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn] (1997)

New Designs In Television Sets (Table of Contents)

Science Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Examples of types and uses of television remote controls.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in More Trash From MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)

Dining Etiquette Quiz (Table of Contents)

Raised Pinky Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Basil Wolverton (signed)

Inks:

Basil Wolverton (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Quiz with bad examples of dining practices.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn] (1997)

The Man In The Soot-Gray Flannel (Table of Contents)

Movie Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

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.

Indexer Notes

Parody of movie "The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit."

Rare Old Cartoons (Table of Contents)

Collector's Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Wilhelm Busch

Pencils:

Wilhelm Busch

Inks:

Wilhelm Busch

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

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.

Indexer Notes

Cartoon is over 100 years old, by the creator of "Max und Moritz" which was the inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids.

Alfred E. Neuman Answers Your Questions (Table of Contents)

Advice Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Martin

Inks:

Don Martin

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Alfred E. Neuman

Synopsis:

Advice for a man who loses everything and wants to hang himself.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in More Trash From MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)
• in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn] (1997)

Indexer Notes

Alfred E. Neuman does not physically resemble the MAD trademark character.

Camp (Table of Contents)

Poison Ivy Dept. / text story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Davis (signed)

Inks:

Jack Davis (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Characters:

Melvin Cowznofsky

Synopsis:

Story of Melvin's summer at Camp Pot-Ra-Zee-Bee.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Worst from MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)

Make Your Own Love-Story Comic (Table of Contents)

Do It Yourself Dept. / activity / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kamen ?

Inks:

Jack Kamen ?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

A bunch of figures, captions, and titles to cut out and arrange on some background scenes.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in More Trash From MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)

Indexer Notes

Jack Kamen is credited on the Contents page with something, and this is the only article I could identify that did not have individual credits.

Hot Weather Photos (Table of Contents)

Newspaper Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Elder (signed)

Inks:

Bill Elder (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Characters:

Mort Pestle; Mickey Toonis; Sid Lumly; George Sturdley; Vava Voom

Synopsis:

Collection of typical newspaper photos taken to show hot summer weather.

Reprints:

• in MAD for Keeps (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1958 series) #[nn] (July 1958)

MAD Bubble Gum Cards (Table of Contents)

Hobby Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Characters:

Smedley van Sturdley; Milton Forbisher; Stanley Henkledorf; Walter N. Goober; Beauregard Bordon

Synopsis:

Bubble gum cards in the Famous Cowards series.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in More Trash From MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)
• in Like, Mad (Signet Books, 1960 series) #T4904 (circa 1970)

Scenes We'd Like To See: Escaping The Cannibals (Table of Contents)

Hollywood Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Phil Interlandi (signed)

Inks:

Phil Interlandi (signed)

Content Information

Genre:

satire

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: show reprint note before migration

• in More Trash From MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)
• in Like, Mad (Signet Books, 1960 series) #T4904 (circa 1970)

The Underworld Around Us (Table of Contents)

Epic Case History Dept. / text article / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

B. Wiseman

Pencils:

B. Wiseman

Inks:

B. Wiseman

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Essay on early human evolution up to the Stone Age.

Reprints:

• in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn] (1997)

Scenes We'd Like To See: The Day of The Big Race (Table of Contents)

Hollywood Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Phil Interlandi (signed)

Inks:

Phil Interlandi (signed)

Colors:

one

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

After a jockey is fired for taking a bribe, the owner's granddaughter volunteers to ride in the big race. She loses.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in More Trash From MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)

Convention Forecasts (Table of Contents)

Political Crystal Ball Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Wally Wood (signed)

Inks:

Wally Wood (signed)

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

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.

Real Estate Ads (Table of Contents)

Home-Sweet-Homes Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Wally Wood; Jack Kamen (home rendering)

Inks:

Wally Wood; Jack Kamen (home rendering)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Furd famliy

Synopsis:

The Furds find an attractive real estate ad only to be disappointed by the actual home.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Worst from MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)

Alfred E. Neuman Answers Your Questions (Table of Contents)

Advice Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Martin

Inks:

Don Martin

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Advice for a man whose wife plays the tuba at night.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in More Trash From MAD (EC, 1958 series) #1 (1958)

Energetic 17-Year-Olds Are Happy Happy Happy (Table of Contents)

How To Give A Party Dept. / comic story / 2.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Mrs. Goodfellow Kringe; Irving Kringe

Synopsis:

A look at a teenage Rock 'n Roll Romp party and aftermath.

Mad Records For Mad Readers! (Table of Contents)

San Francisco Records / advertisement / 0.165 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Editing:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

Ad for hi-fi records.

Show-Off Your Records! (Table of Contents)

Leslie Productions / advertisement / 0.083 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Editing:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

Ad for record album rack.

What? Me Worry? (Table of Contents)

Alfred E. Neuman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.083 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Ad for drawings of Alfred E. Neuman suitable for framing.

Indexer Notes

Alfred is not named.

Biggest Year In MAD History (Table of Contents)

Mad Magazine / text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Alfred E. Neuman

Synopsis:

Meaningless charts showing useless statistics about MAD's first year.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

This One Has The Urp! (Table of Contents)

Padst Red Ribbon Beer / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Elder (signed)

Inks:

Bill Elder (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

Phony ad for Padst Red Ribbon Beer.

Indexer Notes

Parody of ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. On back cover.