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Issue: Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #15
Publication Date: January 1975
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Issues: #15 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: 84
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 36 (24 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Bound with the Nostalgic Mad #3.
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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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2 Content Items from other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagMad #137 published September 1970 was One Day in the Park [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMad #138 published October 1970 was What Innocent Product Threatens the World with an Immense Explosion? [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
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Departments

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Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid

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Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Shooting From the "Hip" Dept.
Character(s): Paul Newman [as Botch Casually]; Robert Redford [as The Somedunce Kid]; Katharine Ross [as Lotta Place]; W.C. Fields [as Eustace McGonicle]; Ted Cassidy [as Harvey Logan]; Don Rickles; Danny Thomas; Richard Pryor; Woody Allen; Bob Hope
Synopsis: In a parody of the film "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid," two wild west outlaws rob, steal, have fun and generally act adorably.
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One Day on Location

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: On the set of a "King Kong" film, the lead actor has a special talent for the role.
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The Mad Blow-Your-Mind Drug Primer

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Satire of the emerging drug culture in society.
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If The World's Greatest Painters Drew the Comics

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Prissy Percy; Harrie; Carrie; Those Girls; Cool Cats; Tillie
Synopsis: Famous painters drawing comic strips in their unique style.
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Spray Can Sprays We'd Like to See

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Psssst! Dept.
Synopsis: New concepts in aerosol products.
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The Lighter Side of Sex

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Satirical examples of the sexual attraction between genders.
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Pages: 5
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One Day in a Garage

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A surgeon gets ironic revenge on his auto mechanic.
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A Sports Fan's Garden of Verses

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Athletic Pentameter Dept.
Character(s): Lew Alcindor; Joe Namath; Rod Taylor; Dean Martin; Fred MacMurray; Chuck Connors; Al Hirt; Curt Gowdy; Jim Nabors; Jack Lemmon; Ernest Borgnine
Synopsis: Poems based on various sports themes. Poems included are: Broadway Joe; Skis; The Sportsman's Hour; Doubleday; I Must Go Out to the Track Again; Lew Alcindor; On the Road to Baltimore; Come Bowl with Me; and The Hometown Goalie.
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Deceptive Money-Saving Labels

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Outside Pitch Dept.
Synopsis: Photo product gags with fine print price savers.
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More "So How Come..."?

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Richard Nixon; Tom Smothers; Dick Smothers; Harry Reasoner; Dean Martin
Synopsis: Examples of how the same situation can be viewed differently from different perspectives.
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How-Are-Ya, Five-0?

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Jack Lord [as Steve McGarrish]; James MacArthur [as Dummy Williams]; Cam Fong [as Gung-Ho]; Zulu [as Loco]; Leo G. Carroll [as Mr. Asmus]; Zsa Zsa Gabor [as Mrs. Asmus]; Buddy Hackett [as Rocky]; George C. Scott [as Benson O'Connor]; Richard Denning [as The Governor]
Synopsis: In a parody of the TV series "Hawaii Five-0," a dense police detective and his squad of equally dense subordinates search Hawaii for a missing Hawaiian artifact.
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One Day in the Garden of Eden

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Adam; Eve
Synopsis: Adam makes another use for the fig leaf.
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Hints for Special Occasion Gifts

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Gi'Me Gimmicks Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of notes and letters making less-than-subtle hints for gifts.
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The Mad Love Book

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Gags featuring the opening line..."Don't you just love..."
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Progress

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): There's No Stool Like an Old Stool Dept.
Synopsis: The gradual evolution of a chair.
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A Mad Look at College

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Universi-Tease Dept.
Synopsis: A satirical look at the antics and interactions at a modern university.
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The Problem

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A psychiatrist tries to allay his patient's phobia about being in a horrible random accident.
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Mad's Christmas Carols for the 1974 Season

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The lyrics of traditional Christmas carols are altered to reflect current events.
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Disclose Notes: Title changed from "1970" to "1974."
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The Lighter Side of Transportation

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Roger Kaputnik
Synopsis: Dave Berg's Lighter Side of gag section focusing on a singular topic, Transportation.
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One Day at a Construction Site

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Hippy; Two unnamed Construction workers
Synopsis: A hippy uses flower power, literally.
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A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes of Home Services

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Gags taken place featuring home service people like plumbers, grocery delivery boys, gas company, exterminators, etc.
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Spy vs. Spy

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy
Synopsis: The White Spy fakes out the Black Spy with a box and a manhole cover.
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Silent Majority the Magazine for Middle America

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Putting the Right on Dept.
Synopsis: A mock magazine focusing on Middle American lifestyles.
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You Know You're Really a Football Fan When...

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Examples of behavior that identifies a person as an obsessed football fan.
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Great Non-Violent Guns!

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Series of gags featuring non-violent guns.
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Put*On

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Great Scott! Dept.
Character(s): George C. Scott [as General Put*on]; Karl Malden [as General Boredly]
Synopsis: In a parody of the film "Patton," the Allies win World War II in spite of the psychotic sadist in charge of the tank brigade.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Mort Drucker draws Bill Mauldin's famous World War II characters Willie and Joe into a panel on page two, a pinup of Milton Caniff's The Dragon Lady on page three and Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey and George Baker's Sad Sack on page five.
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What Innocent Product Threatens the World with an Immense Explosion?

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Another famous Mad Fold-In from Al Jaffee.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. In color.
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One Day in the Park

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A kid tries to break a seller's balloons.
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Disclose Notes: On back cover. In color.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: We're looking for a monster, Ma'm!
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Disclose Notes: Cover of Nostalgic Mad #3.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, possibly based on an erroneous attribution to her for this cover’s original 1953 colors.
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Ripup's Believe It or Don't

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Disclose Notes: Parody of Ripley's Believe It Or Not strips.
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Frank N. Stein!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Baron Francesco Napoleon Stein; Bumble; Melvin; Sherman; the monster
Synopsis: A parody of The Frankenstein horror comics and films.
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Disclose Notes: The monster has Adolph Hitler's face.
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Little Orphan Melvin!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Orphan Melvin; Daddy Peacebucks; Punjoke; Gravel; Ax L. Maxl; The Gasp!; Mommy Peacebucks
Synopsis: Daddy is continually too late to save Melvin from danger, and also cannot save himself from Mommy.
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Disclose Notes: A parody of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. Includes a stanza of a poem by Byron.
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Shadow!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Margo Pain; Lamont Shadowskeedeeboomboom
Synopsis: Lamont kills Margo to preserve the secret of his identity.
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Disclose Notes: A parody of The Shadow.
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This Issue Is Going To Change Your Whole Viewpoint of MAD...

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Genres: humorous
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