Mad
#134
(April 1970)
EC,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except February, May, August and November
- On-sale Date
- 1970-02-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- E.C. Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Al Feldstein (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1970 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Norman Mingo (signed)
- Inks
- Norman Mingo (signed)
- Colors
- Norman Mingo (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Alfred E. Neuman
- Reprints
-
in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #36 (April 1972)
-
Ditched in the South Pacific
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Don Martin
- Pencils
- Don Martin (signed)
- Inks
- Don Martin (signed)
- Colors
- Don Martin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man adrift in the ocean inflates a raft.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
Letters Dept. / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Jerry De Fuccio ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Among the letters is one from "Here Come The Brides" actress Bridgette Hanley, accompanied by a photo of the actress.
Why Not Have the Next Issue Sent Directly to Your Home?
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paul Coker (credited as Paul Coker Jr.)
- Inks
- Paul Coker (credited as Paul Coker Jr.)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- An aborigine has his subscription copy of Mad delivered to his hut by a kangaroo.
Drawn Out Dramas
Marginal Thinking Dept. / cartoon / pages
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Cartoons drawn into the margins of random pages.
Midnight Wowboy
Everybody's Gawkin' Dept. / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Hart
- Pencils
- Mort Drucker (signed)
- Inks
- Mort Drucker (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Jon Voight [as Joe Cluck]; Dustin Hoffman [as Ratface]; John Lindsey; John McGiver [as the Salvation Army leader]; Brenda Vaccaro [as Shirley]
- Synopsis
- In a parody of the film "Midnight Cowboy," an idiot Texan befriends a lowlife New Yorker while they try to make a living in the big, bad city.
- Reprints
-
in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #14 (1974), #99 (Fall 1994)
-
The Fitting
Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Don Martin
- Pencils
- Don Martin (signed)
- Inks
- Don Martin (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man gets fitted for glasses.
- Reprints
Mad's Frozen Foods That Fake-Out Fresh
Dish-Enchantment Dept. / photo story / 3 pages
- Script
- Sy Reit
- Pencils
- Irving Schild (photo)
- Inks
- Irving Schild (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Failed frozen food concepts.
- Reprints
Progress
There's No Stool Like an Old Stool Dept. / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- The gradual evolution of a chair.
- Reprints
Spray Can Sprays We'd Like to See
Psssst! Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- New concepts in aerosol products.
- Reprints
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #15 (1975)
- in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #70 (Februar 1975)
-
The Lighter Side of Money
Berg's Eye View Dept. / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Satirizing civilization's obsession with money.
- Reprints
Joke & Dagger Dept.
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Antonio ProhÃas
- Pencils
- Antonio ProhÃas (signed)
- Inks
- Antonio ProhÃas (signed)
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- The Black Spy; The White Spy
- Synopsis
- The White Spy fakes out the Black Spy with a box and a manhole cover.
- Reprints
I Remember, I Remember the Wondrous Woodstock Music Fair
Splendor on the Grass Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Satirical remembrance, in verse, of the Woodstock Music Festival.
- Reprints
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #13 (1974)
- in Mad's Sergio Aragonés on Parade (Warner Books, 1982 series) #14 (September 1982)
- in A Mad Big Book [Mad Zaps The Human Race!] (EC, 1984 series) (March 1984)
- in Mad for Decades (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2007 series) (2007)
- in Mad's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonès (Running Press Book Publishers, 2010 series) (2010)
- in Mad's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs (Running Press Book Publishers, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #13 (June 2020)
-
"The Ghost and The Mrs." Misses
Ecchtoplasm Dept. / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Dick DeBartolo
- Pencils
- Mort Drucker (signed)
- Inks
- Mort Drucker (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Hope Lange [as Mrs. DeMure]; Edward Mulhare [as The Captain]; Reta Shaw [as Martyr]; Charles Nelson Reilly [as Claymorgue]
- Synopsis
- In a parody of the TV series "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," a widow lives in a house with the ghost of a sea captain only she can see.
- Reprints
- in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #54 (Oktober 1973)
-
Joke & Dagger Dept.
Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Antonio ProhÃas
- Pencils
- Antonio ProhÃas (signed)
- Inks
- Antonio ProhÃas (signed)
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- The Black Spy; The White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black Spy uses projected images to harass the White Spy.
Hints For Special Occasion Gifts
Gi'Me Gimmicks Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Examples of notes and letters making less-than-subtle hints for gifts.
- Reprints
You Know You're Really On Your Own When...
Defamation of Independence Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Tom Koch; G. Rich
- Pencils
- Paul Coker (credited as Paul Coker Jr.)
- Inks
- Paul Coker (credited as Paul Coker Jr.)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Examples of people experiencing responsibilities they aren't ready to accept yet.
- Reprints
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #13 (1974)
- in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #70 (Februar 1975)
-
Ads We Can Look For After the Next Successful Space Mission
Credit Raiding Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Ads for products with dubious connections to the space program.
One Night at the Fights
Don Martin Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Don Martin
- Pencils
- Don Martin (signed)
- Inks
- Don Martin (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- The corner men of a professional fighter get a little too mechanical in their jobs.
- Reprints
- in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #36 (April 1972)
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #14 (1974), #38 (Spring 1982)
- in Mad's Greatest Artists: Don Martin (Running Press Book Publishers, 2014 series) (2014)
-
Mad's Up-Dated Modern Day Mother Goose
Rhymes of the Times Dept. / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Jacobs
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Spiro Agnew; Joe Namath; Pete Rozelle; Hugh Hefner; Tiny Tim; Gamel Abdul Nasser; The Beatles [John Lennon; Paul McCartney; George Harrison; Ringo Starr]; Jack Benny; Mickey Rooney; Andy Warhol; Jane Fonda; Aristotle Onassis; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Dr. Timothy Leary; Warren Beatty; Johnny Carson; Merv Griffin; Joey Bishop; Walter Cronkite; Chet Huntley; Dr. Benjamin Spock
- Synopsis
- Nursery rhymes describing current celebrities.
- Reprints
What Offensive Animal Would Many Americans Like To See Become Extinct?
Mad Fold-In / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- An anti-war message with an animal theme.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
[no title indexed]
A TV Scene We'd Like To See / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Chevy Chase
- Pencils
- John Cullen Murphy
- Inks
- John Cullen Murphy
- Colors
- John Cullen Murphy
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Good morning, Mr. Phelps
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Peter Graves [as James Phelps]
- Synopsis
- In a short parody of the TV series "Mission: Impossible," Mr. Phelps gets an unexpected assignment.
- Reprints
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #34 (Spring 1981)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #18 (April 2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
Ditched in the South Pacific
-
2.
[no title indexed]
Letters Dept. -
3.
Why Not Have the Next Issue Sent Directly to Your Home?
-
4.
Drawn Out Dramas
Marginal Thinking Dept. -
5.
Midnight Wowboy
Everybody's Gawkin' Dept. -
6.
The Fitting
Don Martin Dept. -
7.
Mad's Frozen Foods That Fake-Out Fresh
Dish-Enchantment Dept. -
8.
Progress
There's No Stool Like an Old Stool Dept. -
9.
Spray Can Sprays We'd Like to See
Psssst! Dept. -
10.
The Lighter Side of Money
Berg's Eye View Dept. -
11.
Joke & Dagger Dept.
Spy vs. Spy -
12.
I Remember, I Remember the Wondrous Woodstock Music Fair
Splendor on the Grass Dept. -
13.
"The Ghost and The Mrs." Misses
Ecchtoplasm Dept. -
14.
Joke & Dagger Dept.
Spy vs. Spy -
15.
Hints For Special Occasion Gifts
Gi'Me Gimmicks Dept. -
16.
You Know You're Really On Your Own When...
Defamation of Independence Dept. -
17.
Ads We Can Look For After the Next Successful Space Mission
Credit Raiding Dept. -
18.
One Night at the Fights
Don Martin Dept. -
19.
Mad's Up-Dated Modern Day Mother Goose
Rhymes of the Times Dept. -
20.
What Offensive Animal Would Many Americans Like To See Become Extinct?
Mad Fold-In -
21.
["Good morning, Mr. Phelps"]
A TV Scene We'd Like To See
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- Gregory Fischer
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