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Issue: The Complete Color Mad #3
Publication Date: January 1987
 
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Russ Cochran, Publisher
On Sale Date: 1987
Volume: 3
Pages: 180
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: none entered
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Content Items: 49 (23 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: four color
Dimensions: 9" x 12"
Paper Stock: white
Binding: Smyth-sewn
Publishing Format: mini series
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This Cover... Mad's Answer to Comic Book Titles... The Cover with the Smallest Title in the World!

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This Cover... Mad's Answer to Comic Book Titles... The Cover with the Smallest Title in the World!

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Stoppit!

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Panic
House ad for Panic subscriptions.
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Prince Violent!

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adventure, humorous
Prince Violent; Maid Alota; King Arthur
Prince Violent pursues Maid Alota, hacking many a foe before meeting her.
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A parody of the Prince Valiant comic strip.
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Book! Movie!

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a man; Rosie; Ellen
Parallel stories point out the differences between modern novels and modern movies.
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OEATPIKO EPLO

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Analysis of the Greek political situation -- in Greek.
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Entire page except an introduction is written in apparent Greek characters. Title given uses closest Latin characters.
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You, Too, Can Meet New Friends!

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E. C. Fan-Addict Club!
House ad for the E.C. Fan-Addict Fan Club.
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[untitled]

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Letters from: Reg. B. Wag 6 7/8 (from Texas A&M, TX), Buck Knight (from Waterford, CN), Chick Casady (from Fairborn, OH), Colin Rowe, Jr (from Two Kool Kats, Philadelphia, PA), Marcia Barritt (from Langlois, OR), Paul Wolfowitz, Strange Brice Jr, John Harrahy (from Worcester, MA), Martin Jukovsky (from Woodside, NY), Carles Sampson (from Lexington, KY), J.D. Carlson (from Ridgewood, NJ), John Varvel III (from Oklahoma City, OK), Floyd Seimes (from Crescent Park, NJ)
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Baby Quips!

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Photographic portraits with humorous captions.
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Robinson Crusoe!

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Robinson Crusoe; Joe Friday
A parody of the novel Robinson Crusoe.
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Notes and Comments

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Mona Lisa

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Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" holding an issue of MAD (EC, 1952 series) #9 February-March 1954.
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No Need to Fight over Mad

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Mad Magazine
House ad for MAD subscriptions featuring a photograph of the Lacoon, an ancient Roman sculpture.
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Manduck the Magician

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adventure, humorous
Manduck; Loathar; Charles Atlas (cameo); Lamont Shadowskeedeeboomboom; Narda
Manduck is reduced to using his hypnotic spells to sell snake oil on the street, until he matches spells with Lamont Shadowskeedeeboomboom.
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A parody of the comic strip Mandrake the Magician.
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Movie... Ads!

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The differences between scenes in a movie and the way the movies are advertised.
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Mszentelési Ün Jubileumi Ban

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A report on the Hungarian political situation -- in Hungarian.
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You, Too, Can Meet New Friends!

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E. C. Fan-Addict Club!
House ad for the E.C. Fan-Addict fan Club.
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[untitled]

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Letters from: Mrs. Harriette K. Vandenbaun (from New Haven, CT), David Reiff (from Kew Gardens, NY), Doug Yonnick, Joe Kowall (from Mattydale, NY), Mrs. E.K. (from Brooklyn, NY), Cosulnd, Chandler, Rush, Fitz, Sturdivia, and Harris (from Chanute, KS), Robert Chichester (from Mariette, OH), Keith Nutt, Roy Pender (from Dallas, TX), Jackson Kranes, Dave Kranes (from Belmont, MA), Richard Christen
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The Countynental!

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A parody of the television program "The Continental".
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Plastic Sam!

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humorous, superhero
Plastic Sam; Wheezy Wunks [aka Wizzy Woonks, Wowzy, Wuzzy Wurnks, Wozzy Wanks, Wazzy Wunks, Weezy Wonks, Wonkzy Weez]; Joe Friday; Ed Saturday; Imitation Plastic Sam
Plastic Sam meets an imitation who is a bank robber.
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A parody of Plastic Man (Quality, 1943 series).
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... A Mad Tea Party

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Alice; Mad Hatter; March Hare; Doormouse
An illustration from Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" with MAD comics added in the characters' hands.
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Proof... of 8 Brands Tested, Panic Is Best Imitation of Mad

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Panic
House ad for Panic and Mad subscriptions
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Gasoline Valley!

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Wilt Willit; Skizziks Willit; Phyllus Willit; bully; Alexander Bumpstead; Juddy Willit; Caulky Willit; Nin O'Clock; Smilin' Jack (cameo); Wilber Booble; Cleavia Willit
Where the question of "will Caulky ever grow" is answered.
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A parody of the Gasoline Alley comic strip. Will Elder's signature grows larger with each page.
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Pot-Shot Pete Sheriff of Yucca-pucca Gulch!

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humorous, western
Pot-Shot Pete; Pot-Shot's girl; Poopy; Apaches; Muzzle; arms dealer; the U.S. Calvary
Pot-Shot tries to halt arms sales to the Apaches.
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A western parody.
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In Chinese

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An analysis of the Chinese political situation -- in Chinese.
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"Potrzebie" appears several times in the text.
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Now... If You Join... You Get the Bulletin... Free!

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E. C. Fan-Addict Club!
House ad for the E.C. Fan-Addict fan Club.
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[untitled]

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Letters from: John Davidson (from Sparks NV), Charles Chapocon (from Aiken SC), Bob Henning (from Brooklyn NY), David Anderson (from Washington DC), Daniel Markewich (from New York NY), I. Carnel (from Bay Saint Louis MS), Victor Goff (from Ft. Bragg NC), Walt Place (from Detroit MI)
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Wild 1/2

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Johnny [played by Marlon Branflakes]; Johnny's gang; a girl; the girl's father
Johnny and his gang give up motorcycles.
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Parody of the movie "The Wild One."
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Captain Tvideo!

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Captain Tvideo; Venusian; Commissioner; Lone Ranger (cameo); assistant Ranger; commercial announcer
A parody of the Captain Video television program.
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Humor in a Jugular Vein

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"Stories" on comic book artists being arrested and comics being sold on black market.
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Proof... of 8 Brands Tested, Panic Is Best Imitation of Mad

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Panic; Mad
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House ad for Panic and Mad subscriptions.
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The Hound of the Basketballs!

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humorous, mystery
Shermlock Shomes; Dr. Whatsit; Arty Morty (cameo); Pru Basketball; Coolidge Basketball (corpse); the devil
Shermlock captures the hound that has cursed the Basketball family.
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Parody of Sherlock Holmes mystery.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Newspapers!

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The Press Dept.
Various fake newspaper stories and ads.
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Only the first page is colored.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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In Hieroglyphics

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An analysis of the Egyptian political situation -- in hieroglyphics.
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E. C. Went to Sea in Search of Another New Trend...

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Piracy
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House ad for Piracy comic subscriptions. Drawing may be caricatures of E. C. staffers.
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[untitled]

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Restaurant!

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Mr. Sturdley; Mrs. Sturdley; Smurdley Sturdley; junior Sturdley; baby Sturdley
The deprivations the Sturdleys suffer at a "typical" Sunday restaurant outing.
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Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Wreck of The Hesperus

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Skipper; Skipper's daughter; Popeye (cameo)
Relates the wreck of the ship Hesperus on the reef at Norman's Woe.
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This is the text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations.
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This Issue Is Going to Change Your Whole Viewpoint of Mad...

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Mad Magazine
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King of Clubs

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Panic; Mad
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House ad for Panic and MAD subscriptions. On inside "back" cover, printed right-side up.
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Bringing Back Father!

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Jiggie; Maggs; Little Orphan Annie (cameo); Dinty Moore; Jiggie's brother-in-law; Jiggie's daughter
Jiggie cannot take Maggs's abuse any longer so when he has his serious moments he hires some goons to beat her into submission.
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Drawn in 2 different styles by the 2 different artists: odd pages in the cartoon style and even pages in a more realistic style where Jiggie is shown to be severly injured by Maggs's constant violence.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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What's My Shine!

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Jay Renkins; Everett Dirkdaughter; Henry Doorshack; Charles Potrzebie; John McLellillellillin; Stuart Sawhimintown; Henry Jackdaughter; Lana Cheesecake; Joseph McCartaway; Even Steven; Sturdley Smurdley; Karl Weekdt
How the Senate Subcomittee hearings would go if they were run like a TV game show.
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Game show style loosely based on "What's My Line?" First page is photo of Senate Subcommittee.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Dra

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Consistent with our past practice of devoting this page to a serious analysis of the situation of the world today and how it affects us...
Excerpt of the history section of the Geology entry from Encyclopedia Britannica (Volume 10 in the 1929 edition). The tiny text begins with "Modern Geologists. -- With the work of James Hutton (1726-97), which is rather difficult reading, and its lucid exposition by John Playfair (1748-1819), we at last come to the beginnings of modern geology."
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from "Geology" in The Encyclopedia Britannica - Volume 10 (1929 or possibly earlier)
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Gag is that this is the small country's viewpoint, and type is very tiny. In fact, it's almost unreadable and indexer is uncertain of title. Dra it is (but you have to use a magnifying glass to read it). Script credit identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #3.
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E. C. Went to Sea in Search of Another New Trend...

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Piracy
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House ad for Piracy comic subscriptions. Drawing are caricatures of E. C. staffers.
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[untitled]

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Letters from: Blue Beathard, Rocky Colassanti, Burl Moss, "no name given," Stan the Garbageman, Robert Glaberson, Frank Smith, Gilbert O'Connell, Phillip Loeb, Keith Nutt, Ginger Adler, Sam Browman, J. D. Carlson, Richard Scott.
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Meet Miss Potgold

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A collection of drawings of grotesque women entered in the Miss Potgold of 1955 contest.
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First page is a parody of a Rheingold Beer ad with Bill Gaines in the photo.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Julius Caesar!

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Julius Caesar; Willie The Elder (cameo); Dick Tracy (cameo); Martin Walkingkane (cameo); Shermlock Shomes (cameo); Marlon Branflakes; Calphurnia; Marilyn Monroe (cameo); Fearless Feasdick; Junior; Mickey Mouse (cameo); Donald Duck (cameo); Pluto (cameo); Goofy (cameo)
MAD writer points out standard lampoon shtick elements during a portion of Julius Caesar story.
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The titles of MAD and 11 competitors are used in the narrative on the first page: Bughouse; Crazy; Eh!; Flip; Get Lost; MAD; Madhouse; Nuts!; Panic; Riot; Wild; Whack. This page is a setup for the following story (intro and main story are consecutively paginated).

Script credits from John Benson's "The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD-Inspired Satirical Comics" (Fantagraphics, 2012)
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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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Mona Lisa

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Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" holding an issue of MAD (EC, 1952 series) #9 February-March 1954.
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On back cover.

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