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Issue: Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #14
Publication Date: January 1974
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Issues: #14 of 141 Issues (153 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 116
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 37 (32 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched; some squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Vampire

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Character(s): Vampire; Hippy
Synopsis: A vampire gets the true meaning of peace when he drains the blood of a hippy.
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Departments

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The Mad Spotter's Guide to Professional Types

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Feature(s): Shop Talk Dept.
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The Mating Call of the Wild

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Feature(s): Roar Sweet Nothings in My Ear Dept.
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When Special Interest Magazines Review New Movies

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Feature(s): Selective Service Dept.
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A Mad Look at Rapunzel

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Specific Form Answer Letters There Really Ought to Be

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Mad Greeting Cards ...to Shake Up the People You Hate

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The Nightmare

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Synopsis: A man who plays Mickey Mouse at Disneyland dreams of being chased by cats.
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Midnight Wowboy

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Feature(s): Everybody's Gawkin' Dept.
Character(s): Jon Voight [as Joe Cluck]; Dustin Hoffman [as Ratface]; John Lindsey; John McGiver [as the Salvation Army leader]; Brenda Vaccaro [as Shirley]
Synopsis: In a parody of the film "Midnight Cowboy," an idiot Texan befriends a lowlife New Yorker while they try to make a living in the big, bad city.
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One Night at the Fights

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Synopsis: The corner men of a professional fighter get a little too mechanical in their jobs.
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Mad's Up-Dated Modern Day Mother Goose

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Character(s): Spiro Agnew; Joe Namath; Pete Rozelle; Hugh Hefner; Tiny Tim; Gamel Abdul Nasser; The Beatles [John Lennon; Paul McCartney; George Harrison; Ringo Starr]; Jack Benny; Mickey Rooney; Andy Warhol; Jane Fonda; Aristotle Onassis; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Dr. Timothy Leary; Warren Beatty; Johnny Carson; Merv Griffin; Joey Bishop; Walter Cronkite; Chet Huntley; Dr. Benjamin Spock
Synopsis: Nursery rhymes describing current celebrities.
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A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a Fancy Restaurant

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Synopsis: The behind the scenes antics of restaurant employees are depicted.
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Ads for Movie Revivals

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Feature(s): "X" Ploy-tation Dept.
Character(s): Moses; Moby Dick; Captain Ahab; Snow White; Dopey; Grumpy; Doc; Happy; Bashful; Sneezy; Sleepy
Synopsis: Updating classic straight-laced films like Born Free; Moby Dick; Ten Commandments & Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs with a more adult sex themed angle.
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One Day in a Crash Pad

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Synopsis: Answers the question, "Where does a hippy store his leftovers ?"
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The Lighter Side of Worry

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Synopsis: The behavior of people concerned about things are satirized.
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The Mad Sex Education Primer

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Feature(s): Show and Tell Dept.
Synopsis: The controversy over sex education, presented as a children's reading primer.
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Mad's Guaranteed Effective All-Occasion Non-Slanderous Political Smear Speech

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Feature(s): Death by Elocution Dept.
Synopsis: Political speech telling it like it is.
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Don Martin Posters

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Ironride

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Feature(s): Sitting "Bull" Dept.
Character(s): Ironride; Eva; Edd; Muck Swinger; Finster
Synopsis: A TV satire of Ironhide.
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How to Read a Resort Ad

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Feature(s): Vacational Guidance Dept.
Synopsis: Real meanings to resort ad blurbs.
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Those Wonderful Sixties! A Year 2000 Backward Look at a Warm and Wonderful Decade

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Feature(s): Decade Dense Dept.
Synopsis: A look back at the 1960s, Mad style.
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You Know You're Really a Bore When . . .

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Synopsis: Examples of how to tell whether you're a boring person.
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One Day at the Ocean

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Synopsis: Surf's up for a ship wrecked survivor.
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The Mad Plan for Combatting the Boredom of Baseball

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Feature(s): A Pitch in Time Might Save Nine Dept.
Synopsis: Exploring changes to the game of baseball to liven it up.
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Mad's Frozen Foods That Fake-Out Fresh

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Synopsis: Failed frozen food concepts.
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A Mad "Minute Nature Story"

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Synopsis: Detailed treatise on the Long-Legged Fonebone Bird.
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The Lighter Side of Summer Resorts

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Character(s): Roger Kaputnik
Synopsis: Dave Berg's Lighter Side of gag section focusing on a singular topic, Summer Resorts.
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Sawed Tree Limb

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Character(s): Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis: Black Spy falls for White Spy's sawed-in-half tree trap.
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Obituaries for Traditions, Pasttimes and Other Dying-Out Landmarks of the American Way of Life

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Feature(s): Of Grave Concern Dept.
Character(s): Alfred E. Neuman
Synopsis: Newspaper obituaries for aspects of popular society rather than individual people, illustrated by pictures of Alfred E. Neuman in various garb and make up.
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While Hanging Around the Corner

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Synopsis: A nose picker gives directions.
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A Mad Look at Birds

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Feature(s): Audobon-Bons Dept.
Synopsis: Collection of cartoons satirizing humanity's interaction with birds.
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Feature By Feature Advertising

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Feature(s): Ad Infinite Items Dept.
Synopsis: Ads that go overboard pointing out each desirable feature of a product.
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Sleazy Riders

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Feature(s): Riding High Dept.
Character(s): Peter Fonda [as Wyatt]; Dennis Hopper [as Billy]; Jack Nicholson [as Judd]
Synopsis: Parody of the film "Easy Riders"; two young men on motorcycles tour the back roads of the United States, searching for the "Real America".
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What Silent Majority Will We Never Hear From?

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Synopsis: Another famous Mad Fold-In from Al Jaffee.
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The Nightmare

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Synopsis: A dream about a horrible monster.
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