Mad
#363
[Illustrated Border Variant]
(November 1997)
EC,
1952 Series
- Price
- 2.50 USD; 3.50 CAD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- E.C. Publications Inc.
- Barcode
- 070992332304 11
- Editing
- Nick Meglin (credited) (editor); John Ficarra (credited) (editor); Joe Orlando (credited) (consulting editor); Charlie Kadau (credited) (associate editor); Joe Raiola (credited) (associate editor); D. Shayne (credited as David Shayne) (assistant editor); Amy L. Vozeolas (credited as Amy Mavrikis) (editorial assistant); Dick DeBartolo (credited) (creative consultant); Annie Gaines (credited) (managing editor); Leonard Brenner (credited) (graphics consultant); Thomas Nozkowski (credited) (production); Nadina Simon (credited as Nadina S. Simon) (assistant art director); Jonathan Schneider (art director); Marla Weisenborn (production assistant)
Issue Notes
Marginal art (Drawn-Out Dramas) by Sergio Aragones throughout the issue.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Win a Night with the Spice Girls
cover / 1 page
- Script
- Don Edwing (credited as Duck Edwing) (border art)
- Pencils
- Joe DeVito; Al Jaffee (border art)
- Inks
- Joe DeVito; Al Jaffee (border art)
- Colors
- Joe DeVito
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Duck Ewing is explicitly credited with the border art writing.
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Random Samplings of Readers Mail
Letters and Tomatoes Dept. / letters page / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Letters from Johnny Hornbeck II, Mari Tg, Katie Polatsek, J.S. Butler, Melanie Johnston; photos of Tom Anderson and his baby and his envelope; photo of Alice Cooper throttling the Up the Academy Alfred E. Neuman statue; house ads for Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad #2 and Mad Fold This Book! by Al Jaffee.
F*!@/Off
Identity for Two Dept. / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- John Travolta [as Worn Arches]; Nicolas Cage [as Casting Ploy]; Joan Allen [as Grief Arches]; Dominique Swain [as Jammies Arches]; Gina Gershon [as Sucha Hustler]; Julia Roberts (cameo)
Job Application Form for the Next Spice Girl
Audition and Subtraction Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
Why Your Parents Really Had You
Mom and Pop Psychology Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
-
in Svenska Mad (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1997 series) #3/1998 [314] (1998) which is reprinted
-
Little Known Windows 95 "Tips of the Day"
It's a Boot Point Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
6 Degrees of Separation Between Anyone and Anything
The Dissing Link Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
A Mad Look at Gangs
Serge-In General Dept. [Serge In General Dept.] / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
Mad Interviews the Defense Attorney of the Year
Slaughter in the Court Dept. / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
So What if it's 110 Degrees, You'd Better Keep Sewing
Youth-in-Asia Dept. / photo story / 2 pages
- Script
- Joe Raiola; D. Shayne (credited as David Shayne)
- Pencils
- Irving Schild (photograph)
- Inks
- Irving Schild (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; advocacy
Indexer Notes
Billed as "A Mad Parody" but a pretty damning indictment of overseas sneaker sweatshops and child labor.
The Dead-On Symptoms of a Dying Shopping Mall
Taking the Wind Out of Their Sales Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
Corntact
SETI as She Goes Dept. / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Elmer Fudd (cameo); Marty McFly (cameo); Alfred E. Neuman (cameo); Roger Rabbit (cameo); Jodie Foster [as Dr. Ellie Outaways]; Matthew McConaughey [as Palmer Loss]; Tom Skerrit [as David Humdrum]; Angela Bassett [as Rachel Constant-Pain]; James Woods [as Michael Kidz]; William Fichtner [as Dr. Bent Bark]; John Hurt [as R.S. HasBeen]; Bill Clinton (cameo); Tommy Pickles (cameo); Tom Hanks [as Forrest Gump]; Gromit (cameo); Carl Sagan (cameo); Anthony Hopkins [as Hannibal Lecter] (cameo); David Morse [as Morrison Outaways] (cameo)
Mad's Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds
Grieving Las Vegas Dept. / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- The Spice Girls
What Scientific Meddling Has Many Folks Trembling?
Mad Fold-In / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Answer: Cloning Alfred.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Win a Night with the Spice Girls
-
1.
["Tis the season to waste money!"]
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2.
[no title indexed]
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3.
Random Samplings of Readers Mail
Letters and Tomatoes Dept. -
4.
F*!@/Off
Identity for Two Dept. -
5.
Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to Dating
The Schmucks Stop Here Dept. -
6.
The Mad World of... Drugs
Behind the Hallucinate Ball Dept. -
7.
Product Acronyms You Never Knew Existed
Initial Distraction Dept. -
8.
Job Application Form for the Next Spice Girl
Audition and Subtraction Dept. -
9.
Monroe &... the Gym Class
Angster's Paradise Dept. -
10.
Why Your Parents Really Had You
Mom and Pop Psychology Dept. -
11.
Little Known Windows 95 "Tips of the Day"
It's a Boot Point Dept. -
12.
6 Degrees of Separation Between Anyone and Anything
The Dissing Link Dept. -
13.
A Mad Look at Gangs
Serge-In General Dept. [Serge In General Dept.] -
14.
Mad Interviews the Defense Attorney of the Year
Slaughter in the Court Dept. -
15.
So What if it's 110 Degrees, You'd Better Keep Sewing
Youth-in-Asia Dept. -
16.
The Dead-On Symptoms of a Dying Shopping Mall
Taking the Wind Out of Their Sales Dept. -
17.
Spy Vs Spy
Joke and Dagger Dept. DO NOT USE; Spy vs. Spy -
18.
Corntact
SETI as She Goes Dept. -
19.
Mad's Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds
Grieving Las Vegas Dept. -
20.
What Scientific Meddling Has Many Folks Trembling?
Mad Fold-In -
21.
eVan Gogh Holyfield Self-Portrait
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