- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; humor; satire-parody; historical
- Characters
- Prince Violent; Maid Alota; King Arthur
- Synopsis
- Prince Violent pursues Maid Alota, hacking many a foe before meeting her.
- Reprints
A parody of the Prince Valiant comic strip.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- a man; Rosie; Ellen
- Synopsis
- Parallel stories point out the differences between modern novels and modern movies.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Analysis of the Greek political situation -- in Greek.
- Reprints
Entire page except an introduction is written in apparent Greek characters. Title given uses closest Latin characters.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Letters from: Reg. B. Wag 6 7/8 (from Texas A&M, TX), Buck Knight (from Waterford, CN), Chick Casady (from Fairborn, OH), Colin Rowe, Jr (from Two Kool Kats, Philadelphia, PA), Marcia Barritt (from Langlois, OR), Paul Wolfowitz, Strange Brice Jr, John Harrahy (from Worcester, MA), Martin Jukovsky (from Woodside, NY), Carles Sampson (from Lexington, KY), J.D. Carlson (from Ridgewood, NJ), John Varvel III (from Oklahoma City, OK), Floyd Seimes (from Crescent Park, NJ)
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- ? (photograph)
- Inks
- ? (photograph)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Synopsis
- Photographic portraits with humorous captions.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Robinson Crusoe; Joe Friday
- Synopsis
- A parody of the novel Robinson Crusoe.
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Leonardo da Vinci (painting); ? (mixed media)
- Inks
- Leonardo da Vinci (painting); ? (mixed media)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" holding an issue of MAD (EC, 1952 series) #9 February-March 1954.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Manduck; Loathar; Charles Atlas (cameo); Lamont Shadowskeedeeboomboom; Narda
- Synopsis
- Manduck is reduced to using his hypnotic spells to sell snake oil on the street, until he matches spells with Lamont Shadowskeedeeboomboom.
- Reprints
A parody of the comic strip Mandrake the Magician.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- The differences between scenes in a movie and the way the movies are advertised.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Synopsis
- A report on the Hungarian political situation -- in Hungarian.
- Reprints
The Hungarian is suspect, as each paragraph heading is "Potrzebie."
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Letters from: Mrs. Harriette K. Vandenbaun (from New Haven, CT), David Reiff (from Kew Gardens, NY), Doug Yonnick, Joe Kowall (from Mattydale, NY), Mrs. E.K. (from Brooklyn, NY), Cosulnd, Chandler, Rush, Fitz, Sturdivia, and Harris (from Chanute, KS), Robert Chichester (from Mariette, OH), Keith Nutt, Roy Pender (from Dallas, TX), Jackson Kranes, Dave Kranes (from Belmont, MA), Richard Christen
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- A parody of the television program "The Continental".
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- Plastic Sam; Wheezy Wunks [aka Wizzy Woonks, Wowzy, Wuzzy Wurnks, Wozzy Wanks, Wazzy Wunks, Weezy Wonks, Wonkzy Weez]; Joe Friday; Ed Saturday; Imitation Plastic Sam
- Synopsis
- Plastic Sam meets an imitation who is a bank robber.
- Reprints
A parody of Plastic Man (Quality, 1943 series).
- Pencils
- John Tenniel; ?
- Inks
- John Tenniel; ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Alice; Mad Hatter; March Hare; Doormouse
- Synopsis
- An illustration from Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" with MAD comics added in the characters' hands.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Wilt Willit; Skizziks Willit; Phyllus Willit; bully; Alexander Bumpstead; Juddy Willit; Caulky Willit; Nin O'Clock; Smilin' Jack (cameo); Wilber Booble; Cleavia Willit
- Synopsis
- Where the question of "will Caulky ever grow" is answered.
- Reprints
A parody of the Gasoline Alley comic strip. Will Elder's signature grows larger with each page.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; western-frontier
- Characters
- Pot-Shot Pete; Pot-Shot's girl; Poopy; Apaches; Muzzle; arms dealer; the U.S. Calvary
- Synopsis
- Pot-Shot tries to halt arms sales to the Apaches.
- Reprints
A western parody.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- An analysis of the Chinese political situation -- in Chinese.
- Reprints
"Potrzebie" appears several times in the text.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Letters from: John Davidson (from Sparks NV), Charles Chapocon (from Aiken SC), Bob Henning (from Brooklyn NY), David Anderson (from Washington DC), Daniel Markewich (from New York NY), I. Carnel (from Bay Saint Louis MS), Victor Goff (from Ft. Bragg NC), Walt Place (from Detroit MI)
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Johnny [played by Marlon Branflakes]; Johnny's gang; a girl; the girl's father
- Synopsis
- Johnny and his gang give up motorcycles.
- Reprints
Parody of the movie "The Wild One."
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; science fiction
- Characters
- Captain Tvideo; Venusian; Commissioner; Lone Ranger (cameo); assistant Ranger; commercial announcer
- Synopsis
- A parody of the Captain Video television program.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- "Stories" on comic book artists being arrested and comics being sold on black market.
- Reprints
Cover mimics a newspaper page.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; satire-parody; crime
- Characters
- Shermlock Shomes; Dr. Whatsit; Arty Morty (cameo); Pru Basketball; Coolidge Basketball (corpse); the devil
- Synopsis
- Shermlock captures the hound that has cursed the Basketball family.
- Reprints
Parody of Sherlock Holmes mystery.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Various fake newspaper stories and ads.
- Reprints
Only the first page is colored.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- An analysis of the Egyptian political situation -- in hieroglyphics.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mr. Sturdley; Mrs. Sturdley; Smurdley Sturdley; junior Sturdley; baby Sturdley
- Synopsis
- The deprivations the Sturdleys suffer at a "typical" Sunday restaurant outing.
- Reprints
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
- Script
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Colors
- Monte Michael Moore (painting)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Skipper; Skipper's daughter; Popeye (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Relates the wreck of the ship Hesperus on the reef at Norman's Woe.
- Reprints
This is the text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (photograph)
- Inks
- ? (photogaph)
- Colors
- Marie Severin ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed); Bernie Krigstein (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed); Bernie Krigstein (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Jiggie; Maggs; Little Orphan Annie (cameo); Dinty Moore; Jiggie's brother-in-law; Jiggie's daughter
- Synopsis
- Jiggie cannot take Maggs's abuse any longer so when he has his serious moments he hires some goons to beat her into submission.
- Reprints
Drawn in 2 different styles by the 2 different artists: odd pages in the cartoon style and even pages in a more realistic style where Jiggie is shown to be severly injured by Maggs's constant violence.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Jay Renkins; Everett Dirkdaughter; Henry Doorshack; Charles Potrzebie; John McLellillellillin; Stuart Sawhimintown; Henry Jackdaughter; Lana Cheesecake; Joseph McCartaway; Even Steven; Sturdley Smurdley; Karl Weekdt
- Synopsis
- How the Senate Subcomittee hearings would go if they were run like a TV game show.
- Reprints
Game show style loosely based on "What's My Line?" First page is photo of Senate Subcommittee.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman (introductory blurb); ? (encyclopedic text)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Consistent with our past practice of devoting this page to a serious analysis of the situation of the world today and how it affects us...
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Excerpt of the history section of the Geology entry from Encyclopedia Britannica (Volume 10 in the 1929 edition). The tiny text begins with "Modern Geologists. -- With the work of James Hutton (1726-97), which is rather difficult reading, and its lucid exposition by John Playfair (1748-1819), we at last come to the beginnings of modern geology."
- Reprints
- from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #17 (November 1954)
which is reprinted- from "Geology" in The Encyclopedia Britannica - Volume 10 (1929 or possibly earlier)
- from "Geology" in The Encyclopedia Britannica - Volume 10 (1929 or possibly earlier)
Gag is that this is the small country's viewpoint, and type is very tiny. In fact, it's almost unreadable and indexer is uncertain of title. Dra it is (but you have to use a magnifying glass to read it). Script credit identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #3.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Letters from: Blue Beathard, Rocky Colassanti, Burl Moss, "no name given," Stan the Garbageman, Robert Glaberson, Frank Smith, Gilbert O'Connell, Phillip Loeb, Keith Nutt, Ginger Adler, Sam Browman, J. D. Carlson, Richard Scott.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed); ? (photo)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed); ? (photo)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- A collection of drawings of grotesque women entered in the Miss Potgold of 1955 contest.
- Reprints
First page is a parody of a Rheingold Beer ad with Bill Gaines in the photo.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Julius Caesar; Willie The Elder (cameo); Dick Tracy (cameo); Martin Walkingkane (cameo); Shermlock Shomes (cameo); Marlon Branflakes; Calphurnia; Marilyn Monroe (cameo); Fearless Feasdick; Junior; Mickey Mouse (cameo); Donald Duck (cameo); Pluto (cameo); Goofy (cameo)
- Synopsis
- MAD writer points out standard lampoon shtick elements during a portion of Julius Caesar story.
- Reprints
The titles of MAD and 11 competitors are used in the narrative on the first page: Bughouse; Crazy; Eh!; Flip; Get Lost; MAD; Madhouse; Nuts!; Panic; Riot; Wild; Whack. This page is a setup for the following story (intro and main story are consecutively paginated).
Script credits from John Benson's "The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD-Inspired Satirical Comics" (Fantagraphics, 2012)
- Pencils
- Leonardo da Vinci (painting); ? (mixed media)
- Inks
- Leonardo da Vinci (painting); ? (mixed media)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" holding an issue of MAD (EC, 1952 series) #9 February-March 1954.
- Reprints
On back cover.