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Issue: Mad #81

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Publication Date: September 1963

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Issues: #81 of 550 Issues (594 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/27/1963

Volume: 1

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.25 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 28 (18 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Al Feldstein [as Albert B. Feldstein] (credited)

Notes: On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color (#1-23, 400-550); color cover with black & white interior (#24-399)

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (#1-23); magazine size (#24 onward)

Paper Stock: glossy cover

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Format Notes:

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- If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Ordinary People [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:

Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981 as If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Ordinary People [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (28 total)

Buy Mad...and Have a Ball!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Alfred E. Neuman

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Pages: 1

Watch Out for This One!

Photo Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Synopsis: Parody of Nationwide Insurance print ads; a man is crushed by a falling sign numeral and it is implied that an insurance company is doing it on purpose to increase policy sales.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover.

Departments

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): various (see Notes)

Inker(s): various (see Notes)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Vital Features

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Pages: 1

Notes: Art is excerpts from this issue.
Includes a quote attributed to Alfred E. Neuman: "You never know how many friends you have until you rent a Summer place!"

Random Samplings of Reader Mail

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein ?

Penciller(s): ? (photo)

Inker(s): ? (photo)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Letters Dept.

Character(s): Pete Myers (photograph); Alfred E. Neuman

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters of comment from Denise Ford, Howell Chickering Jr., Jack Harrison, David Utevsky, Ian Graham, Pete Myers, Doug Poust, Gary Bandur, John Bienstock, Paul Windish, Jimmy Thompson, Thomas Strickland, Stephen Billard, and Craig Barnard.
Includes photo of cover of MAD #32.

Hex Marks the Spot

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Penciller(s): ? (photo)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Feature(s): Mad Paperbacks

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Pages: 0.3

Notes: House ad for MAD paperback books.

Help Us to Clear Our Heads!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (photo)

Inker(s): ? (photo)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Alfred E. Neuman bust

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Pages: 0.15

Notes: House ad for china bust of Alfred E. Neuman.

Cheaper Than Ever!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Character(s): Alfred E. Neuman

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Pages: 0.05

Notes: House ad for pinups suitable for framing.

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Mad Magazine

First Line: Teed Off...

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Pages: 0.2

Notes: House ad for subscriptions to MAD Magazine.
Photo is of a wire sculpture of a golfer.

Two for the Hee-Haw!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

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Feature(s): Mad record albums

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Pages: 0.3

Notes: House ad for "MAD Twists Rock 'n' Roll" and "Fink Along with MAD".

Labels We Should've Seen

Photo Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): And the Brand Played On Dept.

Synopsis: Photos of commercial products with the labels altered to satirize the product.

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Pages: 4

Drawn Out Dramas

Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Marginal Thinking Dept.

Synopsis: Cartoons inserted into margins of 16 random pages.

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Pages: 0

New Movie Monsters From Everyday Life

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Horror Things By You Dept.

Synopsis: Horror movies centered on contemporary nuisances.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Notes: A mailbox pictured has the name H. P. Lovecraft.

The Class Program

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Don Martin Dept.

Synopsis: A school performance of shadow puppets doesn't go as rehearsed.

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Pages: 1

On the Beach

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Term Warfare Dept.

Synopsis: NASA terminology applied to situations on the beach.

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Pages: 2

If Modern Comedians Performed For Civilizations in the Past

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Jest in Time Dept.

Character(s): Bob Hope; Bill Dana [as Jose Jimenez]; Jackie Mason; Dick Gregory; Jack E. Leonard

Synopsis: Contemporary comedians do their stand-up act in historical situations.

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Pages: 5

Spy Vs. Spy

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Joke & Dagger Dept.; Spy Vs. Spy

Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy

Synopsis: The Black Spy uses a helicopter to steal the White Spy's secret plans; the White Spy uses a camera and slingshot to take a photo of the Black Spy's secret plans.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Also credited in Morse code as "By Prohias".

The Lighter Side of Summer Camp

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Berg's Eye View Dept.

Synopsis: Various strips satirizing life at summer camp.

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Pages: 4

Another Brain Operation

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Don Martin Dept.

Synopsis: A surgeon examines a patient's brain.

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Pages: 1

The Mad Plan for Beating TV Commercial-Breaks

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Stepping Away from the Pitch Dept.

Synopsis: Various plans for doing things around the house in the space of a TV program commercial break.

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Pages: 5

Mad's Wonder Drugs for Common Teenage Ailments

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): A Cure for the Common Clod Dept.

Synopsis: Drugs designed to counteract embarrassing situations endemic to post-pubescent life.

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Pages: 3

Off the Deep End

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Oy-Vay All Boats Dept.

Synopsis: A man goes diving in the on-board pool of a luxury liner.

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Pages: 1

If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Ordinary People

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): What Mortals These Fools Be Dept.

Character(s): Daddy Warbucks; Little Orphan Annie; Charlie Brown; Lucy Van Pelt; Snoopy; Linus Van Pelt; Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Superman; Pogo Possum; Albert Alligator; Mandrake the Magician; Lothar; B.C.; Wiley; Maggie; Jiggs; Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Alice Mitchell

Synopsis: Fictional characters are placed in authentic situations and react in authentic fashion.

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In Content Item: Flag

Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981
as If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Ordinary People [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Phony signatures: Schlitz, Jester Goldbrick, Want Killy, Hurt, Fink Features Syndicate Inc., The All Syndicate Ink, Hush K S Johnny ?

A Mad Look at Motorcycle Cops

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Where's the Fire Dept.

Synopsis: Series of cartoons satirizing motorcycle police.

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Pages: 2

Spy Vs. Spy Vs. Spy

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Joke & Dagger Dept.; Spy Vs. Spy

Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy; The Gray Spy

Synopsis: The Gray Spy traps the other spies burglarizing her safe.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Also credited in Morse code as "By Prohias".

Popular Scientific Mechanics

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): For Whom the Fools Tool Dept.

Synopsis: Parody of magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Includes a parody of an International Correspondence Schools (ICS) ad.

A Domestic Scene

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Don Martin Dept.

Synopsis: A woman gives her husband a hair cut.

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Just For the Record

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Synopsis: Advertisement for the Mad annual "The Worst From Mad" and the 33.3 RPM record included with each copy.

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Notes: Inside back cover.

Announcing the All-New 1963 3/4 Edsel

Photo Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Synopsis: Parody of Edsel print ads. While the ad copy extols the virtues of the 1963 Edsel station wagon, the vehicle pictured is a Ford wagon from the early part of the twentieth century.

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Notes: Back cover.