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Issue: Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #72
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
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Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 07098934080003
Price: $3.50 USD
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Content Items: 30 (23 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Indicia title is Mad Fall '90 Super Special
Cover title is Mad: Our Creature Presentation
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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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Our Creature Presentation

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Departments

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Splash-dance

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Fish Schtick Dept.
Tom Hanks; Daryl Hannah; John Candy; Mickey Mouse; Dumbo; Pluto; Donald Duck; E.T.
Parody of the film Splash.
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What It Will Be Like When Every Device "Talks"

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From Bad to Voice Dept.
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We Won't Miss Them...or Will We?

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Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Ire Dept.
Examples of how the replacement for a difficult situation isn't always an improvement.
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Spy vs. Spy

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Black Spy; White Spy
The Black Spy tries to get into the White Spy's safe by travelling along a clothesline but the White Spy leaves two booby-trapped cuckoo clocks to cut the line.
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Mad's List of Runners-Up for "The Three Biggest Lies in America"

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Turning Back the Crock Dept.
Examples of commonplace exaggerations.
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Ain't It Great!!

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Positive Winking Dept.
Brooke Shields; Billy Martin; George Steinbrenner
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How Many Mistakes Can You Find in This Picture of a Fast Food Restaurant?

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Err Apparent Dept.
Illustration of a typical fast food restaurant with some things that aren't typical.
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The Lighter Side of ...

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The humorous complications of dating, favors, clothing, accidents, mornings, questions, the telephone, shopping, television, compassion, the family car, illness, do-it-yourself and restaurants.
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Grimlins

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Our Creatures Presentations Dept.
Hoyt Axton [as Mr. Setzer]; Zach Galligan [as Bilgy Setzer]; Phoebe Cates [as Katey]; Keye Luke [as Grandfather]
In a parody of the film "Gremlins," a cuddly little beast becomes the pet from Hell and rampages through a small town.
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MAD Reader!

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Portraits of MAD readers.
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Colors credit confirmed in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002) #2.
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Horrifying Cliches

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Spooking from Pictures Dept.
Grisly visualizations of common cliche phrases.
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King Korn

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Kong-Phew Dept.
Jeff Bridges [as Hack Pressclot]; Charles Grodin [as Fraud Winsome]; Jessica Lange [as Wanda/Dawn]
In a parody of the film remake "King Kong," an oil exploration search team pair with a stowaway anthropologist and a rescued castaway and encounter a hundred foot tall ape.
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What Is Always the Movie Industry's Ghastliest Production?

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Answer is: The Oscar award show!
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A Mad Look at Ants

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Ant-tics Dept.
Illustrated ant puns.
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Jaw'd

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Roy Scheider [as Chief Brooding]; Richard Dreyfuss [as Clod Hopper]; Robert Shaw [as Captain Squint]; Murray Hamilton [as Mayor Vault]; Jeffrey Kramer [as Schmendricks]; Annette Funicello [as Annette]
In a parody of the film "Jaws," a local sheriff teams with a foul-mouthed fisherman and a nerdy ichthyologist to catch a shark menacing the local beach.
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A Mad Look at King Kong

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Kong-Two Dept.
King Kong
Series of cartoons satirizing the film "King Kong".
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Other Uses for Pet Boa Constrictors

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Snaking Do Dept.
Outrageous alternative uses for snakes.
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Spy vs. Spy

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Black Spy; White Spy
The Black Spy makes the White Spy fall into a pit of alligators by tickling him.
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Little Known Patents

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Rights to Wrongs Dept.
Patents for inventions of dubious value.
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What's Cute...and What's Not

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Point of You Dept.
Two events are counterpointed to distinguish what is and isn't cute.
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Mad's Modern Believe It or Nuts!

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RIP, Please! Dept.
Helen Gurley Brown
Parody of Ripley's Believe It or Not.
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C-R-E-E-P of the Year

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Nah-Nuke Nah-Nuke Dept.
Robin Williams; Mirv Dumesdey
Robin Williams interviews a Crisis Relocation Emergency Evacuation Planner.
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The Lighter Side of...

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A cynical look at squabbling, automobile repairs, economizing, pets, proper names, hobbies, florists, dining out, chores, fear, inheritances, friendship, mothers, and criticism.
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A Mad Look at Airline Safety Instructions

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Crashing Bore Dept.
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The Best... and the Worst... Things to Say for Every Occasion

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Dupes and Don'ts Dept.
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Beers

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Saloony Goons Dept.
Ted Danson [as Sham Malloy]; Shelley Long [as Dyan]; Rhea Perlman [as Killa]; Nicholas Colasanto [as Coacher]; George Wendt [as Abnorm]; John Ratzenberger [as Cliff]; Johnny Carson
In a parody of the TV series "Cheers," a neighborhood bar is too busy being hip and intellectual to actually be a place to drink.
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What Competitive Russian and Japanese Enterprise Threatens Total Annihilation?

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A Fish Tale

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A man catches a mermaid and brings her home, but has a problem with his mother.
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