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Issue: Boiling Mad #D3006
Publication Date: October 1966
 
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Brand: A Signet Book
Indicia Publisher: New American Library Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/28/1966
Volume:
Pages: 196
ISBN: none
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Price: $0.50 USD
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Content Items: 30 (26 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1967 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and White interior; Color cover
Dimensions: 4 1/8" x 6 7/8"
Paper Stock: Newsprint interior; Cardstock cover
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Title Page and Credits

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Contents

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Mad's Handy Guide to Languages of the U.S.A.

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Watch My Line Dept.
Interpretations of slang terms endemic to various professions.
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The Appointment

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A man races to make an appointment, but every means of transportation he uses breaks in half.
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The Lighter Side of Entertaining

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Guesting Game Dept.
Series of gags related to entertaining at home.
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College Fraternities

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Sorority, Wrong Number Dept.
Examples of people stretching the truth.
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Scenes We'd Like to See

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A mountain climber encounters the abominable snowman.
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Celebrities' Wallets

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Screwball in the Back Pocket Dept.
Jerry Lewis; Dean Martin
Items from Jerry Lewis's wallet.
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What Do You Do For a Living, Daddy?

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Pop's Concert Dept.
Various fathers try to explain their jobs to their children.
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Mad Publisher William Gaines has a cameo as one of the fathers.
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In a Doctor's Office

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A doctor keeps getting punched in the face.
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The Lighter Side of the Dentist

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Tooth-Tooth-Toothie, Good-bye Dept.
Series of jokes with a dentist theme.
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Spy Vs. Spy

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The Black Spy; The White Spy
The Black Spy tries to bomb the White Spy's tent.
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More Efficient Snow Removal

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Getting the Drift Dept.
Innovative ways to remove heavy snowfall from neighborhood streets.
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If TV Shows Were Actually Like Their "Capsule Descriptions"

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Spittin' On The Image Dept.
Walter Cronkite; Chet Huntley; David Brinkley
Television shows act literally like their descriptions.
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TV Dinners to Match the Shows

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Adapting frozen entrees to the program being viewed.
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The Infernal Triangle

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Throwing a Wench Into the Works Dept.
An ode to television sitcom wives.
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The Painter

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An artist paints a miniature portrait of a large woman.
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Fight Songs For Schools That Can't Afford Major Sports

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Siss-Boom-Blah Dept.
Fight songs geared for so-called "non-revenue" NCAA sports.
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Spy Vs. Spy

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The Black Spy; The White Spy
The White Spy gives the Black Spy a booby-trapped present.
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Some Pages From a Satirist's Notebook

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Howard Schneider
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Notes to You Dept.
Satirical short stories revolving around a cartoonist.
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Another Mad Peek Through the Microscope

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Series of spot gags revolving around microscopic organisms.
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The Hitchhiker

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A hitcher tries everything to get a ride.
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Some Valentines We Rarely Get to See

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Jimmie Hodges-Fitzgerald
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Love's Old Sweet Studio Card Dept.
Valentines for specific situations.
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Six Comics in Search of a Punch Line

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Henny Youngman; Bill Dana [as Jose Jimenez]; Bob Newhart; Shelley Berman; Sam Levinson; Milton Berle
Six popular standup comics tell the same situational joke in their own comic style.
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Route 67

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Martin Milner [as Ted Stools]; George Maharias [as Bud Mudrock]; Red Skelton [as Freddie the Freeloader]; Mary Worth
Parody of the television show "Route 66".
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A Mad Look at Christmas

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Series of Christmas-based humorous situations.
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Nuclear Jitters

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A man builds a bomb shelter.
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The Telephone

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A man talks to a telephone operator in a dangerous location.
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Are You Accepting the Abuses of Our Modern Society Coldly?

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