Inside front and back covers are blank.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Introduction to the contents.
Art is excerpt from "Gopo Gossum!"
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Melvin
- Synopsis
- Title page and publishing information.
- Reprints
Art is just the figures from cover of MAD #1.
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood)
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Table of contents.
Art is excerpt from "Gopo Gossum!"
- Script
- Ray Goulding (credited); Bob Elliott (credited)
- Pencils
- Bill Elder
- Inks
- Bill Elder
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Bob Elliot; Ray Goulding; Arthur Godfrey; Joe McCarthy
- Synopsis
- In attempting to introduce the book, Bob & Ray wander off into a ridiculous discussion of Library of Congress book numbers.
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood)
- Letters
- ?
Art is excerpt from "Gopo Gossum!"
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood) (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood) (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Harvey Kurtzman (original)
- Genre
- satire-parody
- 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)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Captain Tvideo; Venusian; Commissioner; Lone Ranger (cameo); assistant Ranger; commercial announcer
- Synopsis
- A parody of the Captain Video television program.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder
- Inks
- Bill Elder
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- A parody of comic book activity pages.
- Reprints
One page is after "Captain TVideo", one page after "Gopo Gossum!", one page is after "Ping Pong!", one page is after "Cowboy!", and answer page is after "Manduck The Magician."
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman ?
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood) (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood) (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Gopo Gossum; Simple J. Baloney [Joe McCarthy]; Alphonse Alligator [Winston Churchmouse]; Tideland Owl [Marshland Tito]; Ol' Tortoise [Mendup France]; Corky Porcupine [Waterhole Nehru]; Ol' Bloodhound [Change-Ki-Check]; Rackleddy Coon [Chew-An-Play]; Mouse [Georiga Melloncough]; Darnold Duck; Mickey Rodent; Goony; Minny Rodent; a tadpole
- Synopsis
- Gopo mistakenly leads the swamp dwellers into politics and disaster.
- Reprints
Parody of Pogo comic strip.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody
- 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.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman ?
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (credited as B. Elder)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (credited as B. Elder)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Poopeye; Mazola Oil; Swee'back [Mad-Man]; Mammy Jokeum; Mammy's son; Melvin of the Apes; Superduperman [Clark Bent]; Windy
- Synopsis
- Poopeye beats up other comic strongmen hired by the broccoli king to get rid of Poopeye.
- Reprints
Parody of Popeye comic strip.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Phony ad for novelties, weapons, and live animals.
- Reprints
Parody of Johnson Smith novelty ads.
Does not contain the entire contents from the original cover, and items are rearranged to fit the paperback format.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood) (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood) (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody
- 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 ?
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood) (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood) (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Reprints
Parody of Ripley's Believe It Or Not strips.
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor
- Characters
- Lance Sterling; John Smurd
- Synopsis
- Parallel stories comparing the movie version of the Old West with real life.
- Reprints
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Elder (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- 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
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- House ad for the first 5 MAD paperback books.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman
- Synopsis
- Phony analysis of why this book is good for the mind.
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