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Issue: The Mad Sampler #P3495
Publication Date: January 1965
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Issues: #P3495 of 2 Issues
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Publisher: FlagNew American Library
Brand: Signet BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: New American Library Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 196
ISBN:
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Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 26 (20 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Copyright 1965 for first printing.
Sixth printing estimated as 1968.
Indexed from Eighth printing (no date).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: mass market paperback (4 1/4" x 7")
Paper Stock: cardstock cover
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Character(s): Alfred E. Neuman
Synopsis: Imitation needlepoint portrait.
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Here Is Your Sampler Guide to the Goodies Contained in this MAD Assortment

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Letterer(s): typeset
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More MAD Humor from Signet

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Feature(s): MAD paperbacks
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Mad's College Songs and Cheers for Traitors, Defeatists and Cowards

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Rah! Rah! Black Sheep Dept.
Synopsis: Parody college songs for Pivnick Tech.
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Pages: 8
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Early One Morning

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: To avoid waking up, a man tosses his alarm clock out the window, with unfortunate results.
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Commercial Roulette

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): A Turn for the Worse Dept.
Character(s): Danny Thomas; Betty Furness; Tennessee Ernie Ford; Sharpie the Parrot (drawn as José Carioca); Jack Paar; Mr. Clean; Mrs. Fafoofnik
Synopsis: A person channel-surfs and keeps hitting commercials.
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Brands represented are: Miller High Life Beer, Anacin, Bufferin, Post Cereals, Rival Dog Food, Jockey Shorts, Fisk Tires, Westinghouse Appliances, Ford Automobiles, Chevrolet Automobiles, Drano, Gillette, Hertz Rent-A-Car, Mr. Clean, Dash Detergent, Paper-Mate Pens, The Untouchables television show, Colgate Toothpaste, The Jack Parr television show.
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Genres: espionage, humorous
Character(s): Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis: The spies meet for coffee and poison each other's drinks, but both dump them on the ground and two local cats die.
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"Warm-Ups" to Everything

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Claptrap Dept.
Character(s): Wayne Payne; Jack Swearin; Thomas E. Dewhanty; Judge Learned Elbow; Cliff Hanger; Jack Smythe; C. D. Divots; George Fortescue
Synopsis: Warming up a studio audience applied to other venues.
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Pages: 9
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TV's Wonder Dog Lizzie

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mutt Ado About Nothing
Character(s): Lassie [as Lizzie]; Jon Provost [as Tommy Morton]; June Lockhart [as Mrs. Morton]; Hugh Reilly [as Mr. Morton]; Andy Clyde [as the neighbor]; Melvin of The Apes; Judge Crater; Nobel Prize Man
Synopsis: Parody of the television show "Lassie".
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): No Dept.
First Line: Dear Mr. Gaines
Synopsis: Blank page with a note clipped to it from Al Feldstein's mother, claiming he was too sick to fill the page.
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How to Get Complete Newspaper Coverage

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Slop the Press Dept.
Character(s): Jayne Mansfield
Synopsis: Comparison of how the New York Times and the New York Daily News would cover particular stories.
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The European Tourist's Guide to the United States

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ist Das Nicht Der U.S.A. Dept.
Synopsis: Satirical look at tourism guide books.
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Famous Lost Words

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): To Spurn a Phrase Dept.
Character(s): General William Tecumseh Sherman; Governor Al Smith; Commander James Lawrence; President Teddy Roosevelt; Captain John Paul Jones; Sir Henry M. Stanley; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; King Richard III; General Douglas MacArthur; Admiral George Dewey
Synopsis: Examples of historical misquotes.
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The Parent from the Ages of 21 to 60

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Patter of Big Dept. [sic]
Synopsis: Satirical look at child-rearing from the kids' point of view.
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Pages: 26
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The Wonderful New Dart Set

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A child shows another child his new set of darts.
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MAD's Comprehensive Small Irritation Insurance

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Clause That Refreshes Dept.
Synopsis: Details of an insurance policy that reimburses you for selected irritations brought about by life.
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A MAD Peek Through the Microscope

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Alfred E. Neuman
Synopsis: Series of single panel cartoons with a microbe theme.
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Disclose Notes: Alfred E. Neuman makes a cameo as a lab technician and a microscopic organism.
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Genres: espionage, humorous
Character(s): Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis: While the White Spy dreams of stealing the Black Spy's secret plans, the Black Spy actually does it.
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The Two Faces of World War II

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mine Enemy Grows Nicer Dept.
Synopsis: Comparison of stereotypical war movie characters from films made during World War II and after the war.
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The MAD Shakespeare Primer

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): No Holds Bard Dept.
Character(s): Romeo; Juliet; Macbeth; Mrs. Macbeth; Hamlet; Julius Caesar; Marc Anthony
Synopsis: Several of Shakespeare's works simplified to elementary school reader level.
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MAD's "Do-It-Yourself" Auto Repair Manual

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Greasemonkey-Business Dept.
Synopsis: Satirical auto repair manual.
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Admissions of Dishonesty

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Too True to Be Good Dept.
Synopsis: Applying end of program television disclaimers to other areas of society.
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Pages: 8
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After the Rains

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A group of Native Americans exit a teepee after a rain storm.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The MAD Sampler
Character(s): Alfred E. Neuman
First Line: We give 'em the needle and you get the point
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Disclose Notes: House ad for this book.
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