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Issue: Mad Special [Mad Super Special] #87
Publication Date: May 1993
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Issues: #87 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: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 07098934080005
Price: $3.50 USD
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Content Items: 45 (39 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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Mad Sports

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How is the Administration Encouraging New Housing Designs?

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Sports III

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Hokeywood

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Jumbled Joke Flash

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Feature(s): Raking Whoopi Dept.
Character(s): Whoopi Goldbrick; Jumbled Joke Flash; Mr. Tallbit; Revere Ware; Mr. Leader
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The Color of Monotony

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Peggy Got Stewed and Married

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Mad Charts

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It's Really Scary to Think...

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Stuff We Didn’t Get to See on TV for One Reason or Another

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Character(s): David Letterman; Bob Eubanks; Gary Coleman [as Emmanuel Lewis]; Arthur Fiedler; Vanna White; Pat Sajak; Bob Hope; Richard Dawson; Geraldo Rivera
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Little Known World Landmarks

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The Lighter Side of...

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Synopsis: A cynical look at television, first impressions, aging, habits, physical fitness, fashion, travel, seduction, gossip, the economy, permission, ethics, homework, and doctors.
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TV Spin-Offs Yet To Come

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Other Dangers of Smoking

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Synopsis: Black Spy enlarges a fly to giant-size and it and he get swatted by White Spy.
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Mad's Special Sports Spectacular!

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Rockhead IV

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Zonk Me Out at the Ball Game

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Instructional Sports Videos We'd Like To See

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A Mad Look at Skiing...

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Drama on Page 40

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The Mad People Watcher's Guide to a Typical Football Game

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A Mad Look at Baseball

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The Mad Sports Fan Hate Book

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Sport Activities for the Hyperactive

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Disclose Notes: Includes arm-wrestling chess, high-hurdle dog walking, touch-dance skydiving, figure-skate skindiving, drag-race golfing, pumping-iron hang gliding, cross-country beekeeping, and mixed-doubles skateboarding.
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Major League Baseball Rule Changes for the 1990’s

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Disclose Notes: Originally titled "Major League Baseball Rule Changes for the 1980’s."
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A Mad Look at Baseball

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Mad's Record Book for Televised Sports-Vol. I

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Drama on Page 56

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The Unwatchables

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Sir Puffy’s Placemat

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Amazing Stories: Plotlines for Steven Spielberg

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The Lighter Side of...

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Synopsis: A cynical look at fathers, school spirit, evaluations, enlightenment, television, housekeeping, solutions,higher education, communication, knowledge, chauvinism, relativity, equipment, chores, and doctors.
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When American TV Programs Are Shown in Russia

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Feature(s): The Same Old Bolshevik Dept.
Character(s): Mark; Jonathan; Spock; Captain Kirk; Sulu; Uhura; Mr. T; Murdock; Hannibal; Face; Colonel Potter; Linus Van Pelt; Lucy Van Pelt; Charlie Brown
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Rock Groups on the Way Up

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Character(s): Jack and the Crackpots; The Ram-bozos; Charlie and the Bonnie Princes; The Conquistadores; The What; The Ungrateful Living; Amazing Tails; Evolution Express
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Commemorative Christmas Ornaments

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Mad Visits an Organ Transplant Hospital

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Duck Edwing Looks At Superman

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Sneaky UPC Symbols

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Character(s): Joan Rivers; Molly Ringwald
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Legendary Pizza Events Through History

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Character(s): Pythagoras; Ponce DeLeon; William Tell; King Arthur; Sir Isaac Newton; George Armstrong Custer
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[untitled]

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Crock O’Dull Dummee

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Feature(s): Outback to the Video Store Dept.
Character(s): Paul Hogan [as Crock O’Dull Dummee]; Linda Kozlowski [as Zoo]
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Why Owning a VCR is Better Than Going to the Movies

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Haunted by the Ghosts of Christmas Presents?

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Mad's No Credit Cards

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