Mad
#200
(July 1978)
EC,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except February, May, August and November
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- E.C. Publications Inc.
- Barcode
- 0709893323007
- Editing
- Al Feldstein (editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Rickard (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Rickard (signed)
- Colors
- Jack Rickard (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
-
in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #112 (August 1978)
-
Rip-Off
cartoon / 0.125 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Don Martin submits a new definition for the phrase "rip-off".
Indexer Notes
This cartoon appears in the letters page.
Clod Encounters of the Absurd Kind
Boffo UFO Dept. / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Hart
- Pencils
- Mort Drucker (signed)
- Inks
- Mort Drucker (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Richard Dreyfuss [as Cloy]; Melinda Dillon [as Jelly]; Francois Truffaut [as the French scientist]; Teri Garr [as Ronnie]; Cary Guffey [as Barium]
- Synopsis
- In a parody of the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a possible contact with an alien race has ordinary people acting sillier than usual.
- Reprints
-
in Mad (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #92 (augustus 1978) - in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #112 (August 1978)
-
Drawn Out Dramas
Marginal Thinking Dept. / cartoon / 0 pages
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Cartoons drawn into the margins of random pages.
The Rime of the Modern Skateboarder
From Fad to Verse Dept. / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Tom Koch
- Pencils
- Don Martin (signed)
- Inks
- Don Martin (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- In a parody of the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three over-aged skateboarders try to attract girls.
- Reprints
- in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #113 (September 1978)
-
You Can Never Escape From Stress
That Old Familiar Strain Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Examples of how no matter what you do, stress is going to get you.
- Reprints
- in Mad (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #92 (augustus 1978)
- in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #128 (Dezember 1979)
-
The Lighter Side of Fads
Berg's Eye View Dept. / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Examination of how people flock to, or from, fads.
- Reprints
- in Mad (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #92 (augustus 1978)
-
in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #56 (Fall 1986)
-
Graduating Class Pictures as Staged by Some of the World's Best-Known Picture-Makers
Awful Assembly Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Graduation pictures taken by film auteurs Busby Berkeley, Federico Fellini, Sam Peckinpah, Cecil B. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, John Ford, Mel Brooks and Steven Spielberg.
- Reprints
- in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #117 (Januar 1979)
- in Mad (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #101 (mei 1979)
-
When Those "Old-Time Comic Strips" Follow the New Wave, Cerebral "Doonesbury" Trend
Tried and Trudeau Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Nancy; Sluggo; Dr. Rex Morgan; Dagwood Bumstead; Blondie Bumstead; Dick Tracy; Junior Tracy; Sgt. Orville Snorkel; Beetle Bailey; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Donald Duck; Daisy Duck
- Synopsis
- Veteran comic strip characters try the Garry Trudeau way of comedy.
- Reprints
- in Mad (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #92 (augustus 1978) [Één oagina geschrapt.]
- in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #117 (Januar 1979)
- in A Mad Big Book [Mad Zaps The Human Race!] (EC, 1984 series) (March 1984)
-
Mad's College Concert Comic of the Year
The Dirty End of the Schtick Dept. / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Mad interviews popular college circuit stand-up comedian Carl Carnal.
Indexer Notes
"Carl Carnal" is a thinly veiled parody of comedian George Carlin.
Spy Vs. Spy
Joke & Dagger Dept. [Joke and Dagger Dept.]; Spy vs. Spy / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Antonio Prohías
- Pencils
- Antonio Prohías (signed)
- Inks
- Antonio Prohías (signed)
- Genre
- humor; spy
- Characters
- The Black Spy; The White Spy
- Synopsis
- The Black Spy destroys the White Spy's ship with a specially designed torpedo.
The Mad Book of Odds
You Bet Your Life Dept. / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Odds are quoted on how likely discouraging events will happen in one's life.
- Reprints
- in Mad (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #92 (augustus 1978)
- in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #114 (Oktober 1978)
-
How to Read Between the Lines
Hidden Meanies Dept. / text story / 4 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Examples of how quotes are taken out of context or dressed up to change their meaning.
A Mad Look at the Moment Before the Disaster
Zings to Come Dept. / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Depicting the act that led to various disastrous outcomes.
- Reprints
- in Mad (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #92 (augustus 1978)
- in Mad (BSV - Williams, 1967 series) #113 (September 1978)
-
The Dummy & Mareek Show
Sweetness Counts Dept. / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Dick DeBartolo
- Pencils
- Angelo Torres (signed)
- Inks
- Angelo Torres (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Donny Osmond [as Dummy]; Marie Osmond [as Mareek]; Queen Elizabeth II; Pope Paul VI; Frank Sinatra; President Jimmy Carter; Johnny Carson
- Synopsis
- In a parody of "Donny and Marie," a pair of overbearingly cute singers host a variety show.
Before the Rock Concert
Socket to 'em Dept. / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- How a rock singer gets his mane of curly hair.
- Reprints
- in Mad (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #92 (augustus 1978)
- in Mad for Decades (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2007 series) (2007)
-
What Volatile Ingredients - - Now Being Formulated - - are Sure to Cause Future Catastrophes?
Mad Fold-In / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy; humor
- Synopsis
- It could consume an entire continent.
- Reprints
- in Mad Special [Mad Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #53 (Winter 1985)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
The Frog Prince IV
More Fairy Tales Scenes We'd Like to See / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Don Martin
- Pencils
- Don Martin (signed)
- Inks
- Don Martin (signed)
- Colors
- Don Martin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A princess finds she has competition for her prince.
- Reprints
- in Mad (Classics/Williams, 1964 series) #92 (augustus 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
Rip-Off
-
2.
Clod Encounters of the Absurd Kind
Boffo UFO Dept. -
3.
Drawn Out Dramas
Marginal Thinking Dept. -
4.
The Rime of the Modern Skateboarder
From Fad to Verse Dept. -
5.
You Can Never Escape From Stress
That Old Familiar Strain Dept. -
6.
The Lighter Side of Fads
Berg's Eye View Dept. -
7.
Graduating Class Pictures as Staged by Some of the World's Best-Known Picture-Makers
Awful Assembly Dept. -
8.
When Those "Old-Time Comic Strips" Follow the New Wave, Cerebral "Doonesbury" Trend
Tried and Trudeau Dept. -
9.
Mad's College Concert Comic of the Year
The Dirty End of the Schtick Dept. -
10.
Spy Vs. Spy
Joke & Dagger Dept. [Joke and Dagger Dept.]; Spy vs. Spy -
11.
The Mad Book of Odds
You Bet Your Life Dept. -
12.
How to Read Between the Lines
Hidden Meanies Dept. -
13.
A Mad Look at the Moment Before the Disaster
Zings to Come Dept. -
14.
The Dummy & Mareek Show
Sweetness Counts Dept. -
15.
Before the Rock Concert
Socket to 'em Dept. -
16.
What Volatile Ingredients - - Now Being Formulated - - are Sure to Cause Future Catastrophes?
Mad Fold-In -
17.
The Frog Prince IV
More Fairy Tales Scenes We'd Like to See
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