Mad #11

(May 1954)

Beware of Imitations! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Mad Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Flesh Garden! (Table of Contents: 2)

Science-Fiction Dept. / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils

Wally Wood (signed)

Inks

Wally Wood (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Ben Oda

Genre

satire-parody; science fiction

Characters

Flesh; Dale; an alien; Dr. Noah Zark; a Zork; a Zorchton; a Zilchtron; Owlmen; Rockmen; Treemen; Grassmen; Airmen; King Mong

Synopsis

Flesh defeats aliens and the champion of King Mong but refuses to return to Earth.

Reprints

• in The Mad Reader (Ballantine Books, 1954 series) #93 [1] (November 1954)
• in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #24 (1977)
• in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
• in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown, 1997 series) #[nn] (1997)
• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4 (Summer 1998)
• in The Mad Reader (ibooks, 2002 series) (March 2002)
• in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
• in Mad's Original Idiots Wally Wood (EC, 2015 series) (2015)

Indexer Notes

Parody of Flash Gordon.

Colors credit confirmed in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002) #2.

MAD Reader! (Table of Contents: 3)

Special Feature Dept. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils

Basil Wolverton (signed)

Inks

Basil Wolverton (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Ben Oda

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

Portraits of MAD readers.

Reprints

• in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #12 (1973), #12 (1973), #12 (1973), #12 (1973), #12 (1973), #12 (1973)
• in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
• in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #72 (Fall 1990)
• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4 (Summer 1998)
• in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
• in Beaux Arts hors-série (TTM Editions, 2009 series) #12 (2010)
• in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #28 (December 2022) [Only one full page; rest reduced to fit on two pages.]

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002) #2.

I Dreamed I Went to a Fraternity Smoker in My Panic Magazine! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Panic / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Operation Under-the-Ground Chapter 87 [Chapter 5] (Table of Contents: 5)

Cloak-And-Dagger Dept. / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jerry De Fuccio ?; Harvey Kurtzman ? (see notes)

Pencils

Harvey Kurtzman ? (illustration)

Inks

Harvey Kurtzman ? (illustration)

Colors

Marie Severin ?

Letters

typeset

Genre

satire-parody

Characters

Five Fingers Jones; Lavrenti Buried; Floppova Movova

Synopsis

Five Fingers is tortured.

Reprints

• in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4 (Summer 1998)
• in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])

Indexer Notes

Listed as Chapter 87.

Script: Sources vary. De Fuccio credit is from The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2; previous indexer had Harvey Kurtzman. Kitchen and Buhle assert that “Harvey Kurtzman wrote every word from front to back” of this issue (2009, 83).
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Reference:

Kitchen, Denis, and Paul Buhle. 2009. The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics. New York: Abrams ComicArts.

Murder the Husband! (Table of Contents: 6)

Quickie Comic Dept. / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein

Pencils

Jack Davis (signed)

Inks

Jack Davis (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Characters

Walter Graham; Kenneth Martin

Synopsis

A man murders his lover's husband but also manages to sink the rowboat he and the husband are in.

Reprints

• from Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series) #12 (August-September 1952)
• in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
• in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
• in Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (EC, 2015 series) (2015)

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002) #2.

Murder the Story! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils

Jack Davis (signed)

Inks

Jack Davis (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

typeset

Genre

satire-parody

Characters

Cracker Graham; Melvin Martin

Synopsis

Humorous rescripting of a crime story.

Reprints

• from Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series) #12 (August-September 1952) [art only]
• in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4 (Summer 1998) [in this form]
• in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
• in Mad's Original Idiots Jack Davis (EC, 2015 series) (2015)

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002) #2.

Beware of Imitations! (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Mad Magazine / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

MAD Mumblings (Table of Contents: 9)

MAD Mumblings / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils

Harvey Kurtzman (illustration)

Inks

Harvey Kurtzman (illustration)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
• in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Ted K. Wagner, Madison WI; Franz Liszt Fan Club; Shirley D. Blieden; Fred Weld, Santa Barbara, CA; Mrs. R. A. Griggs; Leon Grube, Louisville, KY; Don MacDougall, Tuscon, AZ; Charles Harless; Eddie Kamien, Lancaster, NY; Bernard Bonario, Houston, TX; Mrs. John L. Kramer, Pittsburgh, PA; Zogg; E.C. Fan-Addict #141.
Script and colors credits from The Mad Archives (DC, 2002) #2.

Dragged Net! (Table of Contents: 10)

Crime Dept. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils

Bill Elder

Inks

Bill Elder

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Ben Oda

Genre

satire-parody; crime

Characters

Joe Friday; Ed Saturday; Chief Mike Sunday; Shermlock Shomes (cameo); Dr. Whatsit (cameo); murderer; bank robber; Willie Elder

Synopsis

Parody of the crime television series, Dragnet.

Reprints

• in The Mad Reader (Ballantine Books, 1954 series) #93 [1] (November 1954)
• in The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986)
• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4 (Summer 1998)
• in The Mad Reader (ibooks, 2002 series) (March 2002)
• in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #2 (2007 [January 2008])
• in Mad's Original Idiots Will Elder (EC, 2015 series) (2015)

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002) #2.

Extra Money (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Stuart Greetings / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

I Will Train You at Home for Good Pay Jobs in Radio-Television (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

National Radio Institute / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Let Me Give You a New He-Man Body! (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System / advertisement / 1 page (report information)