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Issue: Mad #33
Publication Date: October 2023
 
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/08/2023
Volume:
Pages: 60
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UPC/EAN: 76194135676103311
Price: $5.99 USD
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Content Items: 28 (23 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: ongoing series
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Mad Goes Back to Ghoul

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
humorous
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
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One Fine Day During Lunch Period

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A student learns that science is part observation.
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A MAD Look At Zombies

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Things that could go wrong for zombies, or because of them.
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Scenes We'd Like to See (The Bride of Frankenstein)

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Subject Matter
humorous
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The Adnauseum Family

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Gonads Adnauseum; More-teasin’ Adnauseum; Grandmuck Adnauseum; Doomsday Adnauseum; Pigsly Adnauseum; Uncle Festive; Edward Scissorhands; Jason Voorhees; Freddy Krueger; Lunch; Cousin Zit; Abigail Grave-in
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Don't Die This Halloween!!!

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Subject Matter
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Definitely Come In Candy Dept.
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Superhero High

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, superhero
The Fantastic Four Years Dept.
The Flash [Barry Allen ?]; Wolverine; Captain America; Dr. Octopus; Judge Dredd; Wonder Woman; Daredevil; Mr. Fantastic; Iron Man; Dr. Strange; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Thor; Conan the Barbarian
Vignettes of superheroes in high school.
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Includes a splash panel "class picture" featuring 30 superhero comic characters.
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What School Bus Drivers Are Doing While You're In Class!

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The Wheel World Dept.
Goofy ideas of what school bus drivers do in their downtime.
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One Tuesday Afternoon After School

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What a Rip Off Dept.
A mother helps her son remove a plastic bandage.
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The Raven

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
a raven; the narrator; Lenore
An adaptation of Poe's poem "The Raven."
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This is the text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations. Script credit from The Complete Color Mad (Russ Cochran, 1986 series) #2 (1986).
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Goosebumps Horror Stories That Would Really Scare Kids

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Subject Matter
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Another Stine Mess Dept.
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Mad's Tom Bunk Visits a High School Lunchroom

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
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Spy Vs Spy

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The Black Spy; The White Spy
The White Spy thinks the Black Spy has died.
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Academy Awards for Teachers

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Class Act Dept.
Awards for less-than-desirable behavior by teachers.
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One Midnight In Wolverton

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Wolfbane of My Existence Dept.
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Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions at Harry Keister High

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Name of the school changed (apparently we can't kick Dick Nixon around anymore).
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Mad Presents Selected Scenes from the Transylvania Mall

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Little Shops of Horrors Dept.
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Differences between the Original Halloween & Halloween 2018

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Subject Matter
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What a Gore Dept.
Compares the original Halloween movie with the 2018 remake.
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New Movie Monsters From Everyday Life

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Subject Matter
humorous
Horror Things By You Dept.
Horror movies centered on contemporary nuisances.
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A mailbox pictured has the name H. P. Lovecraft. Writer credit given to "E. Nelson Bridewell" (sic).
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This Issue's Proposed Mad Medals... to Be Presented to Deserving Students

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Subject Matter
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Givin’ ‘Em a Ribbin’ Dept.
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Van Helstink

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
horror, humorous
Hugh Jackass Dept.
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Reprinted from Mad (1952 series) #445; issue not indexed at time of this sequence entry.
Miscellaneous
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Mad Looks at... Dracula

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror, humorous
A Count Receivable Dept.
Dracula
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Meanwhile...

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
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Things That Really Get Under A Zombie's Skin

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Subject Matter
humorous
Monsters' Gall Dept.
Problems that zombies would run into if they tried to live normal lives.
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Last Giggles & Gasps

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Todd Eisner (credited); Benjamin Schultz (credited)
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Subject Matter
humorous
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Segments include: "He's calling it a hate crime."; The Zombie Food Pyramid; Product Placement in Horror Movies.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
What scary thing is waiting for students at some schools?
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Look, Mom - No More Cavities!

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Subject Matter
humorous
Crust Gumpaste
Melvin Furd
Parody of ad for Crest Toothpaste, with painting signed as "Norman Rocknroll."
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Back cover.

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