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Issue: Mad #2
Publication Date: December 1952
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Issues: #2 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Educational Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/17/1952
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1952, page 145, registration number B377409.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color (#1-23, 400-550); color cover with black & white interior (#24-399)
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (#1-23); magazine size (#24 onward)
Paper Stock: glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mad
Character(s): Casey; Old Dame
First Line: I...I Feel It In My Bones! Someone Is Giving Me The Evil Eye!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMad #2 published January 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as Mad comic book covers [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales Calculated to Drive You Mad #1 published January 1997
as Mad No. 2] [Evil Eye Cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover based on the story "Hex!".
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E.C. Fans!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Weird Fantasy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Weird Fantasy #16. On inside front cover.
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Hex!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, humorous, occult
Character(s): Casey; Yeggi Bora; Leo; the Old Dame; Stan Musical; Preacher Rowboat; Eddy Stunky; Melvin Demoogio
First Line: There are many things going on in the world...
Synopsis: Casey's team wins the pennant but loses Casey to the Old Dame.
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In Content Item: FlagTales Calculated to Drive You Mad #1 published January 1997
as Hex! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Melvin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Melvin of The Apes; Boy; Jane; Ookaballakonga tribe
Synopsis: Melvin escapes from the Ookaballakonga tribe with the help of the jungle animals but the tribe shrinks Boy's head.
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In Content Item: FlagUtterly Mad #4 published December 1963
as Melvin of The Apes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales Calculated to Drive You Mad #1 published January 1997
as Melvin! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: A parody of Tarzan.

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

In the splash panel an ape is reading a copy of "Crypt of Terror".
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E.C. Fans!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): E.C. comics
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence.
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Lady-In-Mascara

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Monongahela Wheeler; Bablou O'Brien; Lady-In-Mascara; Max; Minx
First Line: Monongahela Wheeler
Synopsis: Mo Wheeler believes he's solving a crime but the Lady leads him to a morning radio interview instead.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales Calculated to Drive You Mad #4 published January 1998
as Lady-in-Mascara [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Script credit identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1.

Story is spread across two pages, with half on each.
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Calling Cosmo McMoon!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Cosmo McMoon; F. M. Wavelength; Walla-Walla Bazinski; Croton-on-the-Hudson Bazinski; Baden-Baden Bazinski
First Line: On a quiet stretch of meadowland...
Synopsis: Cosmo discovers a baby who is blending all radio broadcasts into a single program.
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In Content Item: FlagTales Calculated to Drive You Mad #1 published January 1997
as Calling Cosmo McMoon! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Script credit identified in The Mad Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1.
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Gookum!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, science fiction
Character(s): Glarf Nerfnick; Glarf's grandfather; Melvin
First Line: Gosh! A rocket ship!
Synopsis: A Martian escapes the Gookum on his home planet only to find it apparently exists on Earth also.
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In Content Item: FlagTales Calculated to Drive You Mad #1 published January 1997
as Gookum! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Mole!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Melvin Mole
First Line: All you out there who aspire to be criminals...
Synopsis: Melvin is captured during a bank robbery and continually digs his way out of jail.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMad #22 published April 1955
as The Old Pro! [Mole!] [Story on Interior Page(s)]with splash panel omitted
In Content Item: FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as Mole! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales Calculated to Drive You Mad #1 published January 1997
as Mole! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Special... Introductory Offer

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for combination cigarette lighter / cigarette case. H. & S. Sales Co.
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Be A Success As a Radio-Television Technician

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): J. E. Smith
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for tv and radio repair training. On inside back cover.
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Check the Kind of Body You Want!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for body-building course. On back cover.

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