- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's Melvin!
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense; satire-parody
- Characters
- Galusha; Daphne; Melvin The Caretaker; two unnamed Silver Avengers kids
- Synopsis
- Two youngsters run out of gas and enter a house they think is haunted.
- Reprints
A parody of the E.C. horror comics stories.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; science fiction; satire-parody
- Characters
- Melvin; Alfred
- Synopsis
- Alfred outlines a terrible thought he has about the end of humanity.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
House ad for other E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; science fiction
- Characters
- Captain O'Malley; Omar Kayak; Mrs. Kayak; Cosmo McMoon
- Synopsis
- Cosmo solves(?) a missing person case.
- Reprints
Text story with an illustration.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Tiberius O'Leary
- Synopsis
- Story of how a Roman soldier invented the chalkboard eraser.
- Reprints
Text story with an illustration.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (credited as B. Elder)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (credited as B. Elder)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; crime; satire-parody
- Characters
- Bumble; Bumble's boss
- Synopsis
- A perfect crime is hatched but Bumble fumbles.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- John Severin (credited as J. Severin)
- Inks
- John Severin (credited as J. Severin)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier; satire-parody
- Characters
- Textron Quickdraw; Saddlesore; Kickiminabelly Kelly; Slippery Sam; The Pig-Faced Kid
- Synopsis
- Textron is hunting the killer of Melvin and kills every suspect.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I...I Feel It In My Bones! Someone Is Giving Me The Evil Eye!
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Casey; Old Dame
- Reprints
Cover based on the story, "Hex!".
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Feldstein (signed)
- Inks
- Al Feldstein (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
House ad for Weird Fantasy #16.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense; satire-parody
- Characters
- Casey; Yeggi Bora; Leo; the Old Dame; Stan Musical; Preacher Rowboat; Eddy Stunky; Melvin Demoogio
- Synopsis
- Casey's team wins the pennant but loses Casey to the Old Dame.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- John Severin
- Inks
- John Severin
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- jungle; satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Melvin of The Apes; Boy; Jane; Ookaballakonga tribe
- Synopsis
- Melvin escapes from the Ookaballakonga tribe with the help of the jungle animals but the tribe shrinks Boy's head.
- Reprints
A parody of Tarzan.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
House ad for E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Monongahela Wheeler; Bablou O'Brien; Lady-In-Mascara; Max; Minx
- Synopsis
- Mo Wheeler believes he's solving a crime but the Lady leads him to a morning radio interview instead.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody; science fiction
- Characters
- Cosmo McMoon; F. M. Wavelength; Walla-Walla Bazinski; Croton-on-the-Hudson Bazinski; Baden-Baden Bazinski
- Synopsis
- Cosmo discovers a baby who is blending all radio broadcasts into a single program.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited as Melvin Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited as Melvin Wood)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; science fiction; satire-parody
- Characters
- Glarf Nerfnick; Glarf's grandfather; Melvin
- Synopsis
- A Martian escapes the Gookum on his home planet only to find it apparently exists on Earth also.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder
- Inks
- Bill Elder
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; crime; satire-parody
- Characters
- Melvin Mole
- Synopsis
- Melvin is captured during a bank robbery and continually digs his way out of jail.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman; Bill Gaines (credited as William Gaines)
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Complementary letters of review for Mad #1 from Eugene F. Shanlin, Corker Sapp, "Spider" Stannik, Mike Brennan, Melvin Harris, Bill Dennis, Nancy Cash, Jim Bruffey, Laurin Lewis, Richard Grant, Don Emkens, Larry Van Cleef, Jerry Widener, Jon Day, Aristo Lumbre, James L. Bartz, Ronnie Baumgardner, Ted Eggers, Mary Moseler, Melvin, Wamiel Dundle, Joe Anderson, Edward Saffin, Tommy Balacek, Joe Hahn, Fred Delse, Bob Galeria, Joan M. Robinson, M.C. Sinald, and less than complementary letters from R. Schmitt, B.J.D., Joseph Raymond, Francis, Minick, Joe White; with header illustration.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (credited as Sergeant Elder)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (credited as Sergeant Elder)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery; satire-parody
- Characters
- Joe Friday; Ed Saturday; Mr. Glotz; The Chief
- Synopsis
- Joe and Ed travel around the world NOT solving a crime.
- Reprints
A parody of Dragnet TV show.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed)
- Inks
- John Severin (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Roquefort; Camembert; Chantilly; Sergeant Guillotine; Goscinny; Frothingbash; Pastafazoo; Hossenpfeffer; Rasputin; Melvin; Melvin's wife Rosie
- Synopsis
- Melvin has joined the Foreign Legion to escape his wife and kids, but she decimates the entire regiment at Fort Wadi El Aycare.
- Reprints
The first panel is an infinity picture.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Wally Wood
- Inks
- Wally Wood
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
House ad for E.C. comics featuring cover to Weird Science #17.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Play-by-play announcing for a Roman gladiatorial double header, including a commercial.
- Reprints
Text story with an illustration.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Don M. Cameron (credited as Don Cameron)
- Inks
- Don M. Cameron (credited as Don Cameron)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
House ad for Picture Story comics.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; crime
- Characters
- Cosmo McMoon; Malfeasance O'Malley; Morningside Mac Mixmaster; Truman Remote; Vino Muscatel; Marie Severin
- Synopsis
- Cosmo solves a kidnapping of Truman Remote for Remote's publisher, Random Shack.
- Reprints
Marie Severin runs a day nursery.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood
- Inks
- Wally Wood
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Godiva; Godiva's kid brothers; Renfrew
- Synopsis
- A vampire goes on a date with a werewolf.
- Reprints
References "Vault of Horror" #9.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; western-frontier
- Characters
- Lone Stranger; Golden; Pronto
- Synopsis
- The Lone Stranger bumbles his way through foiling a stage coach robbery.
- Reprints
A parody of the Lone Ranger.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman; Bill Gaines (credited as William Gaines)
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Letters from Jimmy Phelan, Mrs. C. Peterson, Martin McReynolds, Larry Stark, Melvyn Davees, Angelo T. Boni, Paul Isaacs, Carole Luis, with header illustration.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- satire-parody; superhero; humor
- Characters
- Superduperman [Clark Bent]; Lois Pain; Copy Boy; W. Twitchell; Captain Marbles [Billy Spafon]
- Synopsis
- Superduperman defeats Captain Marbles by causing Marbles to punch himself out, but Superduperman still can't make it with Lois.
- Reprints
A parody of both Superman and Captain Marvel.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor; romance
- Characters
- Ramona Snarfle; Sheldon Flob; Rackstraw Him
- Synopsis
- Ramona is engaged to slobby, boring Flob but is smitten by the newcomer Rackstraw and follows Rackstraw into a life of crime.
- Reprints
A parody of romance comics.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Williamson
- Inks
- Al Feldstein
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
House ad for E.C. comics featuring Weird Fantasy #18.
- Script
- Jerry De Fuccio (credited as Jerry DeFuccio)
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Tumblers Tympannus; Tiberious O'Leary
- Synopsis
- Tumblers is temporarly paroled from prison to help free someone from a bank vault, but the police don't hold up their end of the bargain and he is reimprisoned.
- Reprints
Text story with an illustration.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Don M. Cameron (credited as Don Cameron)
- Inks
- Don M. Cameron (credited as Don Cameron)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
House ad for Picture Stories comics with order blank.
- Script
- Jerry De Fuccio (credited as Jerry DeFuccio)
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; science fiction
- Characters
- Cosmo McMoon
- Synopsis
- A fake letters column with Cosmo answering the letters.
- Reprints
Text story with an illustration.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed)
- Inks
- John Severin (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- satire-parody; adventure; humor
- Characters
- Robin Hood; Big John; Sparkie; Alan Adaile; Friar Tuck; Little John; Happy; Sneezy; Sleepy; Doc; Dopey; Bashful; Grumpy; Maid Marion
- Synopsis
- After robbing a sheriff's posse, Robin Hood and his gang rob Big John and Sparkie of their last two cents.
- Reprints
A parody of Robin Hood.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Genre
- satire-parody; crime
- Characters
- Margo Pain; Lamont Shadowskeedeeboomboom
- Synopsis
- Lamont kills Margo to preserve the secret of his identity.
- Reprints
A parody of The Shadow.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Ben Oda ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You Say You Lost Your Voice...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Kane Keen
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder
- Inks
- Bill Elder
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- William M. Gaines [Melvin]
- Synopsis
- A fake biography of William M. Gaines.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Ramon; The Professor; Heap
- Synopsis
- The Professor creates Heap and uses him to rob banks until Heap leaves to find a mate.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited as Woodhawk)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited as Woodhawk)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor; superhero
- Characters
- Saddlesore; Saurbratten; Robespierre; Boss Hawk; Yonny Yohnson; Chop Chop Chop; woman in red
- Synopsis
- The Black And Blue Hawks stage a mutiny.
- Reprints
A parody of Blackhawk comic books.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
House ad for E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence.
- Script
- Jerry De Fuccio (credited as Jerry DeFuccio)
- Pencils
- John Severin (illustration)
- Inks
- John Severin (illustration)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Analysis of what happens to the average college student on exam day.
- Reprints
Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed)
- Inks
- John Severin (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Scott Yardland; Jackie; Herbie; Jerkie; Scoggins; Miltie; Nanuk The Canuk
- Synopsis
- Miltie the Mountie doesn't get his man.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Kane Keen; Lassie Rover; Rollover Rover; Schlep; Mrs. Rover; laywer; police officer
- Synopsis
- Kane finds the murderer: the butler did it.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Harvey Kurtzman ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bah! We Haven't Found A Trace of Anything!
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Letters
- ?
- Reprints
House ad for MAD subscriptions.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Teddy; Half-Shot; Pat O'Bryan; Burma Shave; Mr. Sandthirst; Connie; Big-Poop; The Dragging Lady; The Pirates
- Synopsis
- Teddy and Half-Shot are assigned to keep an opium shipment out of the hands of The Pirates, but one of them is an inside man.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman (credited as Egad (Long Grain) Rice Burroughs)
- Pencils
- John Severin (credited as Melvin Severin)
- Inks
- John Severin (credited as Melvin Severin)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- jungle; satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Melvin of The Apes [Lord Melvin Greystroke]; Jane; Ookaballakonga tribe; Whitegreen Greystroke; Brown Greystroke; Veridian Greystroke; Magenta Greystroke; Duke Greystroke; Duchess Fushia Greystroke;
- Synopsis
- The Greystrokes take Melvin back to London but then flee him by going to Africa.
- Reprints
Ookaballakonga is spelled Ookabollakonga in this story.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
House ad for E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hevo Franklin; Red Haring
- Synopsis
- Mock interview with a basketball star Hevo Franklin, from Adison Square Grove.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Letters from Melvyn Thomas, Paul Colandrea, Thomas Mellinger, Mons. David Pait, Tony Sodd, Armstead Napier, Walter C. Schalm & Carl Heald, Joe Lazare, Pfc. Leon A. Reid, Paul M. Dubbs, Barbara Muth (Mrs.), R. Thompson, Pat Armstrong.
- Script
- Ernest Lawrence Thayer (original); Harvey Kurtzman (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Cooney; Burrows; Flynn; Blake; Casey; umpire
- Synopsis
- Casey has a chance to hit the winning runs in a baseball game, but strikes out for the loss.
- Reprints
This is the text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cecil B. V. D. Mill; ship's captain; ship's crew; Mr. Mill's cameraman; Lana Lynn; Pong; Ookabolaponga tribe
- Synopsis
- Lana subdues Pong and Mr. Mill has him towed back to New York, only to find none of them quite fit in.
- Reprints
A parody of the King Kong movie.