Mad #272

(July 1987)

[Table of Contents] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Pencils:

Various

Inks:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Characters:

ALF; Maxwell Smart

Letters and Tomatoes Dept. (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Pencils:

? (Photographs)

Inks:

? (Photographs)

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Best of the Millenium Reader's Poll (Table of Contents)

Mad / activity / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

ARFul (Table of Contents)

ALF / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dick DeBartolo

Pencils:

Mort Drucker

Inks:

Mort Drucker

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor; Satire

Characters:

Arf; Silly Shammer; Mate; Lame; Brian; Richard
Dryface; Dr. McGoy; Spotty; Cliff Robinson; Chewbacca; Dr. Ruse; Simon McKay

Indexer Notes

Spoof of sitcom "ALF."

A Mad Look at Fast Food (Table of Contents)

A Mad Look at / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sergio Aragones

Pencils:

Sergio Aragones

Inks:

Sergio Aragones

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

satire

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Mad's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonès (Running Press Book Publishers, 2010 series) #[nn] (2010)

Mad's Alibis For All Occasions (Table of Contents)

A Serving of Spare Fibs Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tom Koch

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Don Martin Dept. Part I: One Fine Day in North Calamari (Table of Contents)

Don Martin Department / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Don Edwing

Pencils:

Don Martin

Inks:

Don Martin

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

The Flim Flam Film Man (Table of Contents)

Rental Institution Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Hart

Pencils:

George Woodbridge

Inks:

George Woodbridge

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Spy vs. Spy (Table of Contents)

Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Anthony Prohias

Pencils:

Anthony Prohias

Inks:

Anthony Prohias

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Characters:

White Spy; Black Spy

More Celebrity Silhouettes (Table of Contents)

The Shadow Still Doesn't Know Dept. / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Rurik Tyler

Pencils:

Bob Clarke

Inks:

Bob Clarke

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Characters:

Sgt. Slaughter; Smokey the Bear; John McEnroe; Lucy Van Pelt; Cher; NBC Peacock; Larry Hagman;
Bullwinkle; Pat Sajak; Vanna White; Barney Rubble;
Betty Rubble; Sade; Olive Oyl; Gloria Steinem;
Cathy; Orville Redenbacher; Joker; Whoopi Goldberg; Raggedy Ann; David Brenner; Opus; Rudy
Huxtable; Snoopy

Forget Smart (Table of Contents)

Get Smart / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dick DeBartolo; Donald K. Epstein

Pencils:

Angelo Torres

Inks:

Angelo Torres

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor; Satire

Characters:

Muxwall Smart; Agent 36-B; Chief

Indexer Notes

Spoof of television series "Get Smart."

Bush (Table of Contents)

Vice Verse Dept. / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Frank Jacobs

Pencils:

Gerry Gersten

Inks:

Gerry Gersten

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Characters:

President George Bush

Indexer Notes

Satirical poem "(with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)."

The Lighter Side of... (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

Indexer Notes

Vignettes include fashion, winning, marriage, logic, conversation, parties, parents, cars, baby
sitters, finance, segregation, physical fitness,
higher education, and doctors.

When American TV Programs Are Shown in Russia (Table of Contents)

The Same ld Bolshevik Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Lou Silverstone

Pencils:

Angelo Torres

Inks:

Angelo Torres

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor; Satire

Characters:

Mark; Jonathan; Spock; Captain Kirk; Sulu; Uhura;
Mr. T; Murdock; Hannibal; Face; Colonel Potter;
Linus; Lucy; Charlie Brown

Indexer Notes

Spoofs "Highway to Heaven," "Miami Vice," "Star
Trek," "Wide World of Sports," "The A-Team,"
"M*A*S*H," "Peanuts," and "Cheers."

A Mad Guide to Show Biz Success (Table of Contents)

A Mad Guide to / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mike Snider

Pencils:

Paul Coker, Jr.

Inks:

Paul Coker, Jr.

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Rock Groups on the Way Up (Table of Contents)

American Band Slam Dept. / photo story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Christopher Allen

Pencils:

? (Photographs)

Inks:

? (Photographs)

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Characters:

Jack and the Crackpots; The Ram-bozos; Charlie and
the Bonnie Princes; The Conquistadores; The What;
The Ungrateful Living; Amazing Tails; Evolution
Express

Sport Activities for the Hyperactive (Table of Contents)

Humor in a Jockular Vein Dept. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Peter Porges

Pencils:

Paul Peter Porges

Inks:

Paul Peter Porges

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Indexer Notes

Includes arm-wrestling chess, high-hurdle dog walking, touch-dance skydiving, figure-skate skindiving, drag-race golfing, pumping-iron hang
gliding, cross-country beekeeping, and mixed-
doubles skateboarding.

Why the U.S. Government Really Spends So Much (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Tom Koch

Pencils:

George Woodbridge

Inks:

George Woodbridge

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Don Martin Dept. Part II: One Fine Day in the South Bronx (Table of Contents)

Don Martin Department / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Don Edwing

Pencils:

Don Martin

Inks:

Don Martin

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Mad Visits an Organ Transplant Hospital (Table of Contents)

Dunkin' Donors Dept. / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Lou Silverstone

Pencils:

Will Elder

Inks:

Harvey Kurtzman

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

It's a Crummy Job ... (Table of Contents)

Taking a Too Weak Vocation Dept. / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

John Ellis Sech

Pencils:

Al Jaffee

Inks:

Al Jaffee

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Mad Fold-In (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Jaffee (signed)

Inks:

Al Jaffee

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Indexer Notes

Inside Back Cover (full color).

WWWF Magazine (Table of Contents)

A Mad Fake-Out Magazine Cover / (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (Photograph)

Inks:

? (Photograph)

Colors:

? (Photograph)

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Humor

Indexer Notes

Printed upside-down ("flip-book").

Drawn-Out Dramas (Table of Contents)

Drawn-Out Dramas / filler / 0 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sergio Aragones

Pencils:

Sergio Aragones

Inks:

Sergio Aragones

Letters:

Sergio Aragones

Content Information

Genre:

Satire

Indexer Notes

No page count as gags appear in various places around the magazine.