Letters commenting on the feature "Mad Solutions to Doggy-Do Problems" are accompanied by an illustration from Al Jaffee. One of the letters of comment on another feature is from noted fan indexer Hames Ware.

Mugger Bugger Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script: Stan Hart
Pencils: Mort Drucker (signed)
Inks: Mort Drucker (signed)
Letters: typeset

Genre

satire-parody

Characters

Charles Bronson [as Pall Krazey]; Hope Lange [as Mrs. Krazey]; Vincent Gardenia [as the Detective]; Telly Savalas [as Theo Kojak]; Al Pacino [as Frank Serpico]

Synopsis

In a parody of the film "Death Wish," a recently widowed man starts stalking the streets of New York, gunning down criminals.

Reprints

in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #47 (Summer 1984)

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

Script: Sergio Aragonés
Pencils: Sergio Aragonés
Inks: Sergio Aragonés

Genre: humor

Indexer Notes

Cartoons drawn into the margins of random pages.

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

Script: Don Martin
Pencils: Don Martin (signed)
Inks: Don Martin (signed)
Letters: typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A pediatrician smacks a newborn's bottom.

Reprints

in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #74 (Juni 1975)

in Mad (Panini Deutschland, 2003 series) #179 (Juni 2017)

in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #29 (Winter 1979)
in A Mad Carnival (Warner Books, 1982 series) #30-195 (February 1982)
in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #47 (Summer 1984)
in Mad's Greatest Artists: Don Martin (Running Press Book Publishers, 2014 series) (2014)

General Staff Infection Dept. / cartoon / 3 pages (report information)

Script: Arnoldo Franchioni
Pencils: Arnoldo Franchioni
Inks: Arnoldo Franchioni
Letters: typeset

Genre: satire-parody
Synopsis: Photos of actual people or objects are used as props to satirize the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Joke & Dagger Dept. [Joke and Dagger Dept.]; Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Antonio Prohías
Pencils: Antonio Prohías (signed)
Inks: Antonio Prohías (signed)
Letters: typeset

Genre

humor; spy

Characters

The Black Spy; The White Spy

Synopsis

The Black Spy tries to sink the White Spy with a camouflaged submarine.

Reprints

in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #29 (Winter 1979)
in The Eggs-Rated Mad (Warner Books, 1981 series) #90822 (November 1981)

Grimm Reality Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script: Don Reilly
Pencils: Paul Coker (credited as Paul Coker Jr.)
Inks: Paul Coker (credited as Paul Coker Jr.)
Letters: typeset

Genre

satire-parody

Characters

Richard Nixon; The Beatles [John Lennon; Paul McCartney; George Harrison; Ringo Starr]; Leonid Brezhnev

Synopsis

Current events are presented in the form of fairy tales.

Reprints

in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #29 (Winter 1979)

Jest Desserts Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script: Paul Peter Porges
Pencils: Jack Davis
Inks: Jack Davis
Letters: typeset

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

Examples of socially annoying people getting what's coming to them.

Reprints

in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #106 (Februar 1978)
in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #31 (Summer 1980)

Narrow-Minded Dept. / illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Arnie Kogen
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Letters: typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

Books where the subject matter doesn't warrant a book.

Reprints

in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #28 (Fall 1979)
in The Eggs-Rated Mad (Warner Books, 1981 series) #90822 (November 1981)

Berg's Eye View Dept. / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script: Dave Berg
Pencils: Dave Berg
Inks: Dave Berg
Letters: typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

How people deal, or don't deal, with stress and emotional tumult.

Reprints

in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #74 (Juni 1975)
in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #29 (Winter 1979)
in A Mad Carnival (Warner Books, 1982 series) #30-195 (February 1982)

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

Script: Don Martin
Pencils: Don Martin (signed)
Inks: Don Martin (signed)
Letters: typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A man dons sunglasses to conceal the fact that he's ogling passing women.

Reprints

in A Mad Carnival (Warner Books, 1982 series) #30-195 (February 1982)

Making Room for the Ford Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Lou Silverstone
Pencils: Bob Clarke (signed)
Inks: Bob Clarke (signed)
Letters: typeset

Genre: satire-parody
Characters: Gerald Ford; Betty Ford
Synopsis: Gerald and Betty Ford hold a garage sale to get rid of Richard Nixon's possessions left behind.

Flip/Flops Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script: Frank Jacobs
Pencils: George Woodbridge
Inks: George Woodbridge
Letters: typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

Examples of how events initially seen as good turn out to be not so good.

Reprints

in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #28 (Fall 1979)
in A Mad Big Book [Mad Zaps The Human Race!] (EC, 1984 series) (March 1984)

Many Happy Returns Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Lou Silverstone
Pencils: Jack Rickard
Inks: Jack Rickard
Letters: typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

Events initially seen as bad which turn out to be not so bad.

Reprints

in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #95 (März 1977)
in A Mad Carnival (Warner Books, 1982 series) #30-195 (February 1982)

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

Script: Don Martin
Pencils: Don Martin (signed)
Inks: Don Martin (signed)
Letters: typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

An entomologist makes a rare discovery.

Reprints

in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #74 (Juni 1975)
in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #28 (Fall 1979)
in Mad's Greatest Artists: Don Martin (Running Press Book Publishers, 2014 series) (2014)

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

Script: Frank Jacobs
Letters: typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A list of proposed new slang terms.

Reprints

in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #31 (Summer 1980)

Bullshevik Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script: Dick DeBartolo
Pencils: Angelo Torres (signed)
Inks: Angelo Torres (signed)
Letters: typeset

Genre: satire-parody
Characters: Omar Sharif [as Fedup Swearedlove]; Julie Andrews [as Jaundice Shallow]
Synopsis: In a parody of the film "The Tamarind Seed," two members of the British and Soviet diplomatic corps conduct a tepid affair and precipitate an overreaction from their country's intelligence services.

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

Script: Al Jaffee
Pencils: Al Jaffee (signed)
Inks: Al Jaffee (signed)
Colors: Al Jaffee
Letters: typeset

Genre

humor

Synopsis

It's not the kind of court you're thinking of.

Reprints

in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #28 (Fall 1979), #38 (Spring 1982)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

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

Script: J. Froelich (credited as James Froelich)
Pencils: Irving Schild (photo)
Inks: Irving Schild (photo)
Colors: Irving Schild (photo)
Letters: typeset

Genre: advocacy
Synopsis: A man loads a revolver with cigarettes instead of bullets.

Indexer Notes

Back cover.

Editing

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Table of Contents

0. In This Issue, We Blast "Death Wish"
1. Gulliver's Travails
2. [no title indexed]
Letters Dept.
3. Death Wishers
Mugger Bugger Dept.
4. Drawn Out Dramas
Marginal Thinking Dept.
5. Young Doctor Freen
Don Martin Dept.
6. A Mad Look at the Military
General Staff Infection Dept.
7. Spy Vs. Spy
Joke & Dagger Dept. [Joke and Dagger Dept.]; Spy vs. Spy
8. More Modern Fairy Tales
Grimm Reality Dept.
9. Some Real Life Scenes We'd Like to See
Jest Desserts Dept.
10. A Second Mad Collection of Extremely Thin Books
Narrow-Minded Dept.
11. The Lighter Side of Anxiety
Berg's Eye View Dept.
12. One Afternoon at a Bus Stop
Don Martin Dept.
13. A White House "Garage Sale"
Making Room for the Ford Dept.
14. The Mad "Good News - Bad News" Book
Flip/Flops Dept.
15. It Almost Restores Your Faith When...
Many Happy Returns Dept.
16. Professor Bleent and the Floon Beetle Expedition
Don Martin Dept.
17. Additions to the Dictionary
Neumanclature Dept.
18. The Tommy-Red Seed
Bullshevik Dept.
19. What Special-Interest Group is Benefiting Most from Our Jammed Courts?
Mad Fold-In
20. The Silencers
Another Mad Mini-Poster

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Mad #174 (April 1975)

In This Issue, We Blast "Death Wish" (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Gulliver's Travails (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Indexer Notes

Death Wishers (Table of Contents: 3)

Mugger Bugger Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Drawn Out Dramas (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Indexer Notes

Young Doctor Freen (Table of Contents: 5)

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

A Mad Look at the Military (Table of Contents: 6)

General Staff Infection Dept. / cartoon / 3 pages (report information)

Spy Vs. Spy (Table of Contents: 7)

Joke & Dagger Dept. [Joke and Dagger Dept.]; Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

More Modern Fairy Tales (Table of Contents: 8)

Grimm Reality Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Some Real Life Scenes We'd Like to See (Table of Contents: 9)

Jest Desserts Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

A Second Mad Collection of Extremely Thin Books (Table of Contents: 10)

Narrow-Minded Dept. / illustration / 2 pages (report information)

The Lighter Side of Anxiety (Table of Contents: 11)

Berg's Eye View Dept. / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

One Afternoon at a Bus Stop (Table of Contents: 12)

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

A White House "Garage Sale" (Table of Contents: 13)

Making Room for the Ford Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

The Mad "Good News - Bad News" Book (Table of Contents: 14)

Flip/Flops Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

It Almost Restores Your Faith When... (Table of Contents: 15)

Many Happy Returns Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Professor Bleent and the Floon Beetle Expedition (Table of Contents: 16)

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

Additions to the Dictionary (Table of Contents: 17)

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

The Tommy-Red Seed (Table of Contents: 18)

Bullshevik Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

What Special-Interest Group is Benefiting Most from Our Jammed Courts? (Table of Contents: 19)

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

Indexer Notes

The Silencers (Table of Contents: 20)

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

Indexer Notes

Mad #174

(April 1975)