Mad #169

(September 1974)

The Frog Prince (Table of Contents)

Scenes We'd Like to See: Fairy Tales / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jan Van Wessum

Pencils:

Jack Rickard

Inks:

Jack Rickard

Colors:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Indexer Notes

Inside Front Cover (full color)

[Table of Contents] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Pencils:

Various

Inks:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Letters Dept. (Table of Contents)

Letters Dept. / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Serpicool (Table of Contents)

Graft Dodger Dept. / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Hart

Pencils:

Mort Drucker

Inks:

Mort Drucker

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Serpicool; Dirty Harry (cameo)

Indexer Notes

Parody of movie "Serpico"

Trademark Graffiti (Table of Contents)

Add-vertising Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Jaffee

Pencils:

Al Jaffee

Inks:

Al Jaffee

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Alfrede's Poor Almanac (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Alfred E. Neuman

Indexer Notes

Title is a spoof of Benjamin's Franklin's "Poor
Richard's Almanack."

A Mad History of Sex (Table of Contents)

The Bare Facts Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Larry Siegel

Pencils:

George Woodbridge

Inks:

George Woodbridge

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Don Martin Dept. Part 1: One Day in the City (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Don Martin

Pencils:

Don Martin

Inks:

Don Martin

Content Information

Genre:

humor

The Lighter Side of... the High Cost of Living (Table of Contents)

The Lighter Side of... / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dave Berg

Pencils:

Dave Berg

Inks:

Dave Berg

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in MAD Special [MAD Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #27 (1978)
• in Mad [Norsk Mad] (Semic, 1981 series) #1/1982 ([januar] 1982)

A Mad Guide to Status Symbols (Table of Contents)

Staking Acclaim Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tom Koch

Pencils:

Paul Coker, Jr.

Inks:

Paul Coker, Jr.

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Don Martin Dept. Part 2: One Day at Notre Dame (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Don Martin

Pencils:

Don Martin

Inks:

Don Martin

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

A Mad Look at Funerals (Table of Contents)

Cash and Bury Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Hart

Pencils:

Bob Clarke

Inks:

Bob Clarke

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Follow-Up Letters to Advertisers (Table of Contents)

Hitting the Pitch Dept. / text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dick DeBartolo

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Talking Stamps (Table of Contents)

Post Exchanges Dept. / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Photographs (furnished by Dumont Stamp Co., N.Y.C.)

Inks:

Photographs (furnished by Dumont Stamp Co., N.Y.C.)

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Patrick Henry; Thomas Jefferson; Susan B. Anthony;
Betsy Ross; Christopher Columbus; Neil Armstrong;
Thomas A. Edison; Pope Paul VI

The Mad Tennis Primer (Table of Contents)

Court Jesting Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Larry Siegel

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Reprints:

• in Mad For Kicks (Warner Books, 1980 series) #31416 (June 1980)

Don Martin Dept. Part 3: One Day in the Patent Office (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Don Martin

Pencils:

Don Martin

Inks:

Don Martin

Letters:

Don Martin

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in MAD Special [MAD Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #27 (1978)

McClod (Table of Contents)

Plainclothesman Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Lou Silverstone

Pencils:

Angelo Torres

Inks:

Angelo Torres

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor; satire-parody

Characters:

Marshal Simp McClod; Chief; Commissioner

Synopsis:

Premise: would a hard-riding, gun-toting, square-jawed, straight-shooting Marshal from New Mexico
really help New York solve its crime problem?

Indexer Notes

Parody of television series "McCloud"

Mad Fold-In (Table of Contents)

Mad Fold-In / activity / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Jaffee

Pencils:

Al Jaffee

Inks:

Al Jaffee

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Indexer Notes

Inside Back Cover (full color)

Save the Eagle! (Table of Contents)

Another Mad Mini-Poster / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Bob Clarke

Inks:

Bob Clarke

Colors:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Indexer Notes

Back Cover