Mad
#495
(November 2008)
EC,
1952 Series
- Price
- 4.99 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- E.C. Publications Inc.
- Barcode
- ?
- Editing
- John Ficarra (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
ISSN 024 9319
Sexdrive
Sexdrive / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Ad for the movie by Summit Entertainment. On inside front cover.
Departments
table of contents / 1 page
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman; The Joker; John McCain
Indexer Notes
Art is from various places in the magazine. The feature "Why So Sirius? Department" is phony and does not actually appear in the issue.
Random Samplings of Reader Mail
Letters and Tomatoes Department [Letters and Tomatoes Dept.] / letters page / 2.67 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman; Black Spy; White Spy; Bill Clinton; Jacobus Dixon; Michael Grinspan; Matt Lassen; Jon Marquis; Aaron Sidorov; Laurie Sanford; Erin Miller
- Synopsis
- Photos of MAD interns.
Indexer Notes
Letters, photos and fan art from : Griffin Benzel; Andrew Rybczynski; Brenner Williams; Christina Collins; Nikki Franda; Evan Caprenter; Ryan Murphy; Bryce Waslak; Tommy La Voy; Jacob McDaniel; Yahawa Ashaqua
Silent Hill Homecoming
Silent Hill Homecoming / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Ad for game from Konami. Appears between pages 1-2 of letters pages.
You Can Own MAD Original Art!
Heritage Auction Galleries; MAD / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Ad for a Heritage auction. Shows covers of MAD #31, #43, #106, #126 and others. Appears between pages 2-3 of letters pages.
An Important Message From MAD's Director of Business & Development
Mad Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Characters
- Jeffrey Lozenge
- Synopsis
- A message on liberty.
Indexer Notes
House ad for Mad subscriptions; #27 in a series.
The Fundalini Pages
Random Acts of Mindless Dept.; Bitterman; Least Popular Halloween Costumes of 2008; The "Real" Reasons Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince Was Delayed; Pull My Cheney!; Advantages and Disadvantages / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Joe Biden; Sarah Palin; John McCain; Joe Bitterman; Bill O'Reilly; John Edwards; Jethro Gruntman; Heinrich von Boffo; Dogstar Zamana; Claxton Baker
- Synopsis
- Various short satires of pop culture.
Indexer Notes
Contributors (roles unknown) include: Scott Bricher; Tom Bunk; Tom Cheney; Dick DeBartolo; Desmond Devlin; Garth Gerhart; Jeff Kruse; Sam Sisco
AST Dew Tour
NBC; USA Network / advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bo Bridges (photo)
- Inks
- Bo Bridges (photo)
- Colors
- Bo Bridges (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- ?
- Characters
- Bucky Lasek
- Synopsis
- Ad for AST Dew Tour tv show series.
The Dork Knight
Don't Wayne On My Parade Dept. / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Battyman [Bruce Whine]; The Jokester; Radish Dawson; Harvey Dink; Katie Holmes; Tom Cruse (cameo); Bozo (cameo); Ronald McDonald (cameo); Superman (cameo); Commissioner Walk-on; Neuman; Cookie Monster (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Loosely follows the plot of the movie "The Dark Knight."
- Reprints
-
in Mad About Super Heroes (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2012 series) (2012) - in Mad Presents Batman (EC, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)
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Indexer Notes
No name is given for the Morgan Freeman character.
Mad's Updated Glossary to The War On Terror
Lexicon-job Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- George Bush; Joe Lieberman; Colin Powell; John McCain
- Synopsis
- Fake definitions for words used to describe aspects of the War on Terror.
Indexer Notes
A follow-up to an article in MAD #438.
A MAD Look at Fortune Tellers
Serge-In General Dept. [Serge In General Dept.] / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A look at some possible goofy outcomes of fortune telling.
- Reprints
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #19 (June 2021)
-
Hopeless
Alfred E. Neuman; A MAD Political Poster; Campaignin' The Ass Dept. / illustration / 2 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman
Indexer Notes
A parody of the Barack Obama poster "Hope."
MAD Deconstructs TV Talk Shows
The Chat 'N The Stat Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Keith Olberman; George W. Bush; John McCain; John Edwards; Andrea Mitchell; Bill O'Reilly
- Synopsis
- Minute-by-minute looks at features on "Countdown" taken to their extremes.
It's Wall-to-Wall Stupidity!
MAD books / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman; Bill Clinton
Indexer Notes
House ad for MAD Magazine Poster Book and MAD About Politics pop-up book.
A Look Back At The Historical Career of John McCain
Antique Slideshow Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Scott Bricher; ? (photo)
- Inks
- Scott Bricher; ? (photo)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- John McCain; Thomas Jefferson; James Monroe; Meriwether Lewis; William Clark; Sacagawea; Abraham Lincoln; Betsy Ross; Charles Lindberg; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Joseph Stalin
- Synopsis
- John McCain appears in historic paintings and photos of the past 400 years of American history.
Indexer Notes
Uses some real historic photos as bases for some computer changes.
Monroe and...Domestic Terror
Angster's Paradise Dept. / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Monroe; Monroe's mother; Monroe's father; Monroe's grandfather; Walter; Gustavo
- Synopsis
- Monroe's chemistry experiment blows up in class and the FBI takes him in for interrogation as a terrorist suspect.
The Strip Club
Pen And Stink Dept.; Man On The Street; It Only Hurts When I Laugh; How To Dump An Invisible Man!; The Machine That Travels Through Time; The Family Follies!; Me, Myself and My Puppet; The Roommates: John, Joe and Jerry; Just Below The Surface / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Ryan Pagelow; Christopher Baldwin; Glen Le Lievre (credited as Glen LeLievre); Joey Alison Sayers (credited as Joey Sayers); Rob Harrell; John Kovaleski; Todd Clark; Douglas Paszkiewicz
- Pencils
- Ryan Pagelow; Christopher Baldwin; Glen Le Lievre (credited as Glen LeLievre); Joey Alison Sayers (credited as Joey Sayers); Rob Harrell; John Kovaleski; Todd Clark; Douglas Paszkiewicz
- Inks
- Ryan Pagelow; Christopher Baldwin; Glen Le Lievre (credited as Glen LeLievre); Joey Alison Sayers (credited as Joey Sayers); Rob Harrell; John Kovaleski; Todd Clark; Douglas Paszkiewicz
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ryan Pagelow; Christopher Baldwin; Glen Le Lievre (credited as Glen LeLievre); Joey Alison Sayers (credited as Joey Sayers); Rob Harrell; John Kovaleski; Todd Clark; Douglas Paszkiewicz
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
A collection of comic strips.
Not Vetting Sarah Palin
A Mad Political Poster; In Veep Trouble Dept. / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- John McCain; Sarah Palin
- Synopsis
- A parody of movie poster for "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."
When Monkeys Go Bad
The Apes of Wrath Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Michael Jackson; Bubbles
- Synopsis
- A look at the things apes would do wrong if they thought more like people.
Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy
Joke & Dagger Dept. [Joke and Dagger Dept.]; Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- Black Spy; White Spy; Grey Spy
- Synopsis
- The Grey Spy lures the others into a trap, with her feminine wiles.
When High School Elections Are Run Like Presidential Elections
Electoral College Prep Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Nathaniel Stein
- Pencils
- Jose Garibaldi
- Inks
- Jose Garibaldi
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- What might happen if common practices in presidential elections were transfered to high schools.
The New British Invasion
BBC Video; Amazon.com; 2 entertain Video Ltd. / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Ad for DVDs of tv shows: Little Britain; The Office; Doctor Who; Robin Hood; Spaced; Torchwood
Who's Made A Fortune Collecting And Packaging Garbage?
Mad Fold-In / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Answer is: TMZ.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Drawn-Out Dramas
Marginal Thinking Dept. / comic story / 0 pages
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Gags appear on 11 different pages.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
"Comedy Before Country" Election Issue
Alfred E. Neuman -
1.
Sexdrive
Sexdrive -
2.
Departments
-
3.
Random Samplings of Reader Mail
Letters and Tomatoes Department [Letters and Tomatoes Dept.] -
4.
Silent Hill Homecoming
Silent Hill Homecoming -
5.
You Can Own MAD Original Art!
Heritage Auction Galleries; MAD -
6.
[no title indexed]
-
7.
An Important Message From MAD's Director of Business & Development
Mad Magazine -
8.
The Fundalini Pages
Random Acts of Mindless Dept.; Bitterman; Least Popular Halloween Costumes of 2008; The "Real" Reasons Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince Was Delayed; Pull My Cheney!; Advantages and Disadvantages -
9.
AST Dew Tour
NBC; USA Network -
10.
The Dork Knight
Don't Wayne On My Parade Dept. -
11.
Mad's Updated Glossary to The War On Terror
Lexicon-job Dept. -
12.
A MAD Look at Fortune Tellers
Serge-In General Dept. [Serge In General Dept.] -
13.
Hopeless
Alfred E. Neuman; A MAD Political Poster; Campaignin' The Ass Dept. -
14.
MAD Deconstructs TV Talk Shows
The Chat 'N The Stat Dept. -
15.
It's Wall-to-Wall Stupidity!
MAD books -
16.
A Look Back At The Historical Career of John McCain
Antique Slideshow Dept. -
17.
Monroe and...Domestic Terror
Angster's Paradise Dept. -
18.
The Strip Club
Pen And Stink Dept.; Man On The Street; It Only Hurts When I Laugh; How To Dump An Invisible Man!; The Machine That Travels Through Time; The Family Follies!; Me, Myself and My Puppet; The Roommates: John, Joe and Jerry; Just Below The Surface -
19.
Not Vetting Sarah Palin
A Mad Political Poster; In Veep Trouble Dept. -
20.
When Monkeys Go Bad
The Apes of Wrath Dept. -
21.
Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy
Joke & Dagger Dept. [Joke and Dagger Dept.]; Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy -
22.
When High School Elections Are Run Like Presidential Elections
Electoral College Prep Dept. -
23.
The New British Invasion
BBC Video; Amazon.com; 2 entertain Video Ltd. -
24.
Who's Made A Fortune Collecting And Packaging Garbage?
Mad Fold-In -
25.
Drawn-Out Dramas
Marginal Thinking Dept. -
26.
In Hell's Darkest Chamber, Immortality Waits.
Hell In A Cell
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