Mad #43

(December 1958)

I Never Carry More Than $50 in Cash (Table of Contents)

American Expense Account Cheques / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Kelly Freas (signed)

Inks:

Kelly Freas (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Characters:

Brigitte Bardot (sic)

Synopsis:

Parody of American Express Travelers Cheques ads.

Reprints:

• in More Trash From MAD (EC, 1958 series) #2 (1959)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Departments (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

various

Inks:

various

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Art is excerpts from this issue.

MAD's M.V.B.T.A. Awards (Table of Contents)

The Double-Play's The Thing Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Larry Siegel

Pencils:

George Woodbridge (signed)

Inks:

George Woodbridge (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Harry Jingo; Babe Brando; Enos Schwack; "School Boy" Drake; Hank Ozone; Jake Jacobs; Leo Screech

Synopsis:

Acting awards for baseball players hamming it up for fans and the camera during games.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.

Help Make This Christmas A Memorable One (Table of Contents)

MAD For Keeps / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Alfred E. Neuman

Synopsis:

House ad for hardcover book from Crown Publishers.

People Who Have Read It Are Raving About It (Table of Contents)

The Brothers MAD / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.17 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

House ad for a MAD paperback book.

Random Samplings of Reader Mail (Table of Contents)

Letters Dept. / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein; Alexander Wilde; Ron Bergman; Jack Litch; Carolyn Walker; Bradley Pieper; Chuck Venturi; Gene Herson; Jon Kwitny; The Alfred E. Neuman [Auto] Racing Club; G. J. Manos; Nancy Gaines; William Doorly

Pencils:

various; ? (photo)

Inks:

various; ? (photo)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

The Alfred E. Neuman [Auto] Racing Club; Bill Gaines's daughter

Synopsis:

Letters of comment, mostly about issue #40. Includes a photo of Bill Gaines's (unnamed) daughter.

Indexer Notes

Notes that "Famous Monsters of Filmland #2" includes some article reprinted from an issue of MAD.

Cleaned Out! (Table of Contents)

Alfred E. Neuman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.17 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Norman Mingo (painted)

Inks:

Norman Mingo (painted)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Alfred E. Neuman

Synopsis:

House ad for pinups suitable for framing.

Do Your Christmas Shopping Early (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:

Santa Claus

Synopsis:

House ad for MAD subscriptions.

Indexer Notes

Illustration is excerpt from a previous issue of Panic.

The End of Comics (Table of Contents)

Installment Overdue Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tom Koch

Pencils:

Wally Wood (signed)

Inks:

Wally Wood (signed)

Letters:

?; typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Characters:

Puck; Little Orphan Annie; Daddy Warbucks; Annie's real mother; Sandy; Mandrake The Magician; Lothar; Pogo; Albert the Alligator; Dick Tracy; Chief; Junior; Toonerville's The Skipper; Mary Worth; Mary's nephew; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Li'l Abner; Dennis The Menace; Henry; Smilin' Jack; Blondie Bumstead

Synopsis:

Possible final strips for when newspapers have to eliminate comics to use the space for more educational features.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in MAD Special [MAD Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #36 (Fall 1981)

Indexer Notes

Parodies these strips: Little Orphan Annie; Mandrake The Magician; Pogo; Dick Tracy; Mary Worth; Li'l Abner; Dennis The Menace; Henry; Smilin' Jack; Blondie

Future Magazine Mergers (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Tom Koch

Pencils:

Bob Clarke

Inks:

Bob Clarke

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Characters:

Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Nikita Krushchev

Synopsis:

Unlikely magazine titles for when magazines merge.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.

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

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks:

Joe Orlando (signed)

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

Enemy frogmen successfully blow up each other's ships and are then stranded mid-ocean.

The Electricians (Table of Contents)

Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Don Martin (signed)

Pencils:

Don Martin (signed)

Inks:

Don Martin (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Two building maintenance men try to find why a toaster won't work.

If Hollywood Directors Staged...Advertising Photos (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Wally Wood (signed)

Inks:

Wally Wood (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

Parodies of ads depicted in the styles of directors: Alfred Hitchcock; Elia Kazan; Cecil B. DeMille; Sam Katzman.

Indexer Notes

Ads parodied are: Body By Fisher; Joy Detergent; Marlboro Cigarettes; White Rock beverages.

Pushcarts (Table of Contents)

Food For Thought Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dave Berg (signed)

Pencils:

Dave Berg (signed)

Inks:

Dave Berg (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

History of merchandising by pushcarts and projection to a future where stores are so large that vendors sell by pushcarts within the stores.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Dave Berg's Mad Trash (EC, 1981 series) #[nn] (1981)

Health Chairs (Table of Contents)

Relax In Discomfort Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Clarke

Inks:

Bob Clarke

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Taking the fad of reclining chairs to extremes.

The MAD Halloween Trick-Or-Treatment (Table of Contents)

Hobble Them Goblins Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Frank Jacobs

Pencils:

Mort Drucker

Inks:

Mort Drucker

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

A list of revenges against common Halloween pranks.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.

The MAD Treasury of Unknown Poetry (Table of Contents)

Verse of The People Dept. / text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tom Koch

Pencils:

Joe Orlando

Inks:

Joe Orlando

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

Parodies of famous poems.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.

Special Lamps For Reading Magazine (Table of Contents)

Light of Your LIFE Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Clarke (signed)

Inks:

Bob Clarke (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Alfred E. Neuman

Synopsis:

Reading lamps designed in styles to match popular magazine content.

Misleading Headlines (Table of Contents)

Extra! Extra! Dept. / text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Frank Jacobs

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Characters:

Sarah Klunk; Sidney Klutz; Byron Brisket; Gladys Glotz; Carl Umlaut; Fred Mildew; Hank Shlubb; Alfred E. Neuman

Synopsis:

Headlines that purposefully do not describe the underlying newspaper articles.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.

The New Baby (Table of Contents)

Danny Kaye Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Milton Schafer; Danny Kaye

Pencils:

Wally Wood (signed)

Inks:

Wally Wood (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Danny Kaye

Synopsis:

Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

Song copyright 1957 by Frank Music Corp.

Coming Musicals (Table of Contents)

And Then I Wrote Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Larry Siegel; Frank Jacobs

Pencils:

Bob Clarke (signed)

Inks:

Bob Clarke (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

Broadway musicals based on unlikely source material.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.

The End Of A Perfect Day (Table of Contents)

Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Don Martin (signed)

Pencils:

Don Martin (signed)

Inks:

Don Martin (signed)

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

A man has trained his dog to fetch him everything...including his wife.

Music Report (Table of Contents)

Bob & Ray Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Elliott; Ray Goulding

Pencils:

Mort Drucker (signed)

Inks:

Mort Drucker (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Bob Elliott; Ray Goulding; Wally Ballew; Filbert Hoffenberger

Synopsis:

Wally interviews a man who tests the truth of song lyrics and watches him demonstrate "It's a treat to beat your feet in the Mississippi Mud."

Payhouse 90 (Table of Contents)

Television Dept. / text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert Meglin

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

Ficticious filming schedule for tv show, showing that it mostly consists of commercials.

Indexer Notes

Show parodied is Playhouse 90. Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.

The Smithshop (Table of Contents)

Traumatic Workshop Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Clarke (signed)

Inks:

Bob Clarke (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Synopsis:

The ultimate in the trend towards combined home woodworking shop tools, parodying the Shopsmith.

Woodlore (Table of Contents)

To Blazes With The Trail Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

George Woodbridge (signed)

Inks:

George Woodbridge (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

A guidebook to (phony) dangerous plants and animals of the woods.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

The Bathtub Admiral (Table of Contents)

Danny Kaye Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Milton Schafer; Danny Kaye

Pencils:

Wallace Wood (signed)

Inks:

Wally Wood (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Danny Kaye

Synopsis:

Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.

Indexer Notes

Song copyright 1957 by Frank Music Corp.: this and writer credits given in the first Danny Kaye Dept. of this issue.

Down Lovers' Lane (Table of Contents)

Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Don Martin (signed)

Pencils:

Don Martin (signed)

Inks:

Don Martin (signed)

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Two couples carve a heart; one on a tree and one on a forehead.

You'll "Go Far" In A MAD T-Shirt (Table of Contents)

MAD T-Shirts / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Larry Maleman (photo); Wally Wood

Inks:

Larry Maleman (photo); Wally Wood

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Alfred E. Neuman

Synopsis:

House ad for t-shirts with Alfred E. Neuman on front.

Indexer Notes

On inside back cover.

Proverbs Revisited (Table of Contents)

Marginal Thinking Dept. / filler / 0 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Common proverbs with twist endings.

Indexer Notes

Appear in the margins of 22 pages of the issue.

Look Mom - No More Cavities! (Table of Contents)

Crust Gumpaste / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Kelly Freas (painted, signed)

Inks:

Kelly Freas (painted, signed)

Colors:

Kelly Freas (painted, signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Characters:

Melvin Furd

Synopsis:

Parody of ad for Crest Toothpaste, with painting signed as "Norman Rocknroll."

Indexer Notes

Back cover.