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Issue: Mad #174
Publication Date: April 1975
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Issues: #174 of 550 Issues (594 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.50 USD
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Content Items: 21 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
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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
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In This Issue, We Blast "Death Wish"

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Norman Mingo (signed)
Inker(s): Norman Mingo (signed)
Colorist(s): Norman Mingo (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Charles Bronson
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Gulliver's Travails

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don Edwing
Penciller(s): Paul Coker Jr.
Inker(s): Paul Coker Jr.
Colorist(s): Paul Coker Jr.
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The Lilliputians give their prisoner a hygiene assist.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry DeFuccio ?
Penciller(s): Al Jaffee
Inker(s): Al Jaffee
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Letters Dept.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters commenting on the feature "Mad Solutions to Doggy-Do Problems" are accompanied by an illustration from Al Jaffee. One of the letters of comment on another feature is from noted fan indexer Hames Ware.
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Death Wishers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Hart
Penciller(s): Mort Drucker (signed)
Inker(s): Mort Drucker (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mugger Bugger Dept.
Character(s): Charles Bronson [as Pall Krazey]; Hope Lange [as Mrs. Krazey]; Vincent Gardenia [as the Detective]; Telly Savalas [as Theo Kojak]; Al Pacino [as Frank Serpico]
Synopsis: In a parody of the film "Death Wish," a recently widowed man starts stalking the streets of New York, gunning down criminals.
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Pages: 7
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Drawn Out Dramas

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sergio Aragones
Penciller(s): Sergio Aragones
Inker(s): Sergio Aragones
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Marginal Thinking Dept.
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Pages: 0
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Young Doctor Freen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don Martin
Penciller(s): Don Martin (signed)
Inker(s): Don Martin (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Don Martin Dept.
Synopsis: A pediatrician smacks a newborn's bottom.
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Pages: 1
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A Mad Look at the Military

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Arnoldo Franchioni
Penciller(s): Arnoldo Franchioni
Inker(s): Arnoldo Franchioni
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): General Staff Infection Dept.
Synopsis: Photos of actual people or objects are used as props to satirize the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Pages: 3
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Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Antonio Prohias
Penciller(s): Antonio Prohias (signed)
Inker(s): Antonio Prohias (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Joke & Dagger Dept.; Spy Vs. Spy
Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy
Synopsis: The Black Spy tries to sink the White Spy with a camouflaged submarine.
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Pages: 1
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More Modern Fairy Tales

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don Reilly
Penciller(s): Paul Coker Jr.
Inker(s): Paul Coker Jr.
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Grimm Reality Dept.
Character(s): Richard Nixon; The Beatles [John Lennon; Paul McCartney; George Harrison; Ringo Starr]; Leonid Brezhnev
Synopsis: Current events are presented in the form of fairy tales.
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Pages: 4
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Some Real Life Scenes We'd Like to See

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Peter Porges
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Jest Desserts Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of socially annoying people getting what's coming to them.
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Pages: 4
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A Second Mad Collection of Extremely Thin Books

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Arnie Kogen
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Narrow-Minded Dept.
Synopsis: Books where the subject matter doesn't warrant a book.
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Pages: 2
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The Lighter Side of Anxiety

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dave Berg
Penciller(s): Dave Berg
Inker(s): Dave Berg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Berg's Eye View Dept.
Synopsis: How people deal, or don't deal, with stress and emotional tumult.
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Pages: 5
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One Afternoon at a Bus Stop

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don Martin
Penciller(s): Don Martin (signed)
Inker(s): Don Martin (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Don Martin Dept.
Synopsis: A man dons sunglasses to conceal the fact that he's ogling passing women.
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Pages: 1
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A White House "Garage Sale"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lou Silverstone
Penciller(s): Bob Clarke (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Clarke (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Making Room for the Ford Dept.
Character(s): Gerald Ford; Betty Ford
Synopsis: Gerald and Betty Ford hold a garage sale to get rid of Richard Nixon's possessions left behind.
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Pages: 2
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The Mad "Good News - Bad News" Book

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Jacobs
Penciller(s): George Woodbridge
Inker(s): George Woodbridge
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Flip/Flops Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of how events initially seen as good turn out to be not so good.
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Pages: 4
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It Almost Restores Your Faith When...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lou Silverstone
Penciller(s): Jack Rickard
Inker(s): Jack Rickard
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Many Happy Returns Dept.
Synopsis: Events initially seen as bad which turn out to be not so bad.
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Pages: 2
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Professor Bleent and the Floon Beetle Expedition

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don Martin
Penciller(s): Don Martin (signed)
Inker(s): Don Martin (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Don Martin Dept.
Synopsis: An entomologist makes a rare discovery.
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Pages: 1
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Additions to the Dictionary

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Jacobs
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Neumanclature Dept.
Synopsis: A list of proposed new slang terms.
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Pages: 1
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The Tommy-Red Seed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick DeBartolo
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres (signed)
Inker(s): Angelo Torres (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Bullshevik Dept.
Character(s): Omar Sharif [as Fedup Swearedlove]; Julie Andrews [as Jaundice Shallow]
Synopsis: In a parody of the film "The Tamarind Seed," two members of the British and Soviet diplomatic corps conduct a tepid affair and precipitate an overreaction from their country's intelligence services.
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Pages: 7
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What Special-Interest Group is Benefiting Most from Our Jammed Courts?

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Jaffee
Penciller(s): Al Jaffee (signed)
Inker(s): Al Jaffee (signed)
Colorist(s): Al Jaffee
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mad Fold-In
Synopsis: It's not the kind of court you're thinking of.
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Pages: 1
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The Silencers

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): James Froelich
Penciller(s): Irving Schild (photo)
Inker(s): Irving Schild (photo)
Colorist(s): Irving Schild (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
Feature(s): Another Mad Mini-Poster
Synopsis: A man loads a revolver with cigarettes instead of bullets.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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