{"api_url":"https://www.comics.org/api/issue/93813/?format=json","series_name":"Mad (1952 series)","descriptor":"13","number":"13","volume":"1","variant_name":"","title":"","publication_date":"July 1954","key_date":"1954-07-10","price":"0.10 USD","page_count":"36.000","editing":"Harvey Kurtzman (credited) (editor)","indicia_publisher":"Educational Comics Inc.","brand_emblem":"EC An Entertaining Comic","isbn":"","barcode":"","rating":"","on_sale_date":"","indicia_frequency":"monthly","notes":"Character appearances, Department names and other miscellaneous info for this issue added by Donald Dale Milne, December 2008.","variant_of":null,"series":"https://www.comics.org/api/series/10092/?format=json","indicia_printer":"","keywords":"","story_set":[{"type":"cover","title":"This Cover... MAD's Answer to Comic Book Titles... The Cover with the Smallest Title in the World!","feature":"","sequence_number":0,"page_count":"1.000","script":"Harvey Kurtzman (signed as H.Kurtz(figure of a man))","pencils":"Harvey Kurtzman (signed as H.Kurtz(figure of a man))","inks":"Harvey Kurtzman (signed as H.Kurtz(figure of a man))","colors":"Marie Severin ? (coding for separations); Harvey Kurtzman (see notes)","letters":"Ben Oda","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"satire-parody","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"","notes":"Marie Severin addressed on at least two occasions the coloring of art created or edited by Harvey Kurtzman. In remarks published in 1995, she said “Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers. . . .” And in response to a 1986 question about Kurtzman and *MAD *covers, she said “Now I might have interpreted, but I don’t remember. I think he did every one of them. I might have helped out with some production or something, but it’s all Harvey” (Ringgenberg 2016, 88).\r\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\r\nReferences:\r\n\r\nCassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In *Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. *46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.\r\n\r\nRinggenberg, Steven. 2016. “Marie Severin.” In *The Comics Journal Library Vol. 10: The EC Artists Part 2, *edited by Michael Dean, 84–95. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books.\r\n\r\nRinggenberg, Steven. [2016] 2018. “An Interview with Marie Severin.” *The Comics Journal, *September 5. Accessed June 18, 2023. https://www.tcj.com/an-interview-with-marie-severin.\r\n\r\nSeverin, Marie ([John Province], transcriber). 1995. “Mostly about Color.” In *CFA-APA *36, January.","keywords":""},{"type":"promo (ad from the publisher)","title":"Stoppit!","feature":"Panic","sequence_number":1,"page_count":"1.000","script":"?","pencils":"Bill Elder (credited as Will Elder) (signed)","inks":"Bill Elder (credited as Will Elder) (signed)","colors":"None","letters":"Ben Oda","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"","notes":"Inside front cover. 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Title given uses closest Latin characters.\r\nScript credit identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #3.","keywords":""},{"type":"promo (ad from the publisher)","title":"You, Too, Can Meet New Friends!","feature":"E. C. Fan-Addict Club!","sequence_number":5,"page_count":"1.000","script":"?","pencils":"Wally Wood (signed)","inks":"Wally Wood (signed)","colors":"Marie Severin","letters":"Ben Oda","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"","notes":"House ad for the E.C. Fan-Addict Fan Club.\r\nColors credit confirmed in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #3.","keywords":""},{"type":"letters page","title":"","feature":"Mad Mumblings","sequence_number":6,"page_count":"1.000","script":"Harvey Kurtzman","pencils":"None","inks":"None","colors":"None","letters":"typeset","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"","notes":"Letters of comment from Reg. B. Wag 6 7/8, Texas A&M, TX; Buck Knight, Waterford, CN; Chick Casady, Fairborn, OH; Colin Rowe, Jr; Two Kool Kats, Philadelphia, PA; Marcia Barritt, Langlois, OR; Paul Wolfowitz; Strange Brice Jr; John Harrahy, Worcester, MA; Martin Jukovsky, Woodside, NY; Carles Sampson, Lexington, KY; J.D. Carlson, Ridgewood, NJ; John Varvel III, Oklahoma City, OK; Floyd Seimes, Crescent Park, NJ.\r\nScript credit identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #3.","keywords":""},{"type":"comic story","title":"Baby Quips!","feature":"Photography Dept.","sequence_number":7,"page_count":"6.000","script":"Harvey Kurtzman","pencils":"? (photographs)","inks":"? 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