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Issue: Mad #43
Publication Date: December 1958
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Issues: #43 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 32 (24 stories, 1 cover)
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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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Alfred E. Neuman
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In Content Item: FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as Mad magazine covers [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMad #480 published August 2007
as What the Heck Is the Difference? [Activity on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMad #485 published January 2008
as Own A Piece Of MAD History! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMad #486 published February 2008
as Own A Piece Of MAD History! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMad #487 published March 2008
as Own A Piece Of MAD History! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMad #488 published April 2008
as Own A Piece Of MAD History! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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I Never Carry More Than $50 in Cash

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): American Expense Account Cheques
Character(s): Brigitte Bardot (sic)
Synopsis: Parody of American Express Travelers Cheques ads.
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In Content Item: FlagMore Trash from Mad #2 published January 1959
as I Never Carry More Than $50 in Cash [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as Mad ad: American Expense Cheques [Story on Interior Page(s)]from inside front cover
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Departments

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Vital Features
Synopsis: Art is excerpts from this issue.
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Pages: 1
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MAD's M.V.B.T.A. Awards

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Double-Play's the Thing Dept.
Character(s): Harry Jingo; Babe Brando; Enos Schwack; "School Boy" Drake; Hank Ozone; Jake Jacobs; Leo Screech
Synopsis: Acting awards for baseball players hamming it up for fans and the camera during games.
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Pages: 2
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Help Make This Christmas a Memorable One

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: MAD For Keeps is a house ad for hardcover book from Crown Publishers.
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People Who Have Read It Are Raving About It

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.17
Disclose Notes: The Brothers MAD is a house ad for a MAD paperback book.
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Random Samplings of Reader Mail

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): various; ? (photo)
Inker(s): various; ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Alfred E. Neuman [Auto] Racing Club; Bill Gaines's daughter
Synopsis: Letters of comment, mostly about issue #40. Includes a photo of Bill Gaines's (unnamed) daughter.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Notes that "Famous Monsters of Filmland #2" includes some article reprinted from an issue of MAD. Letter writers: Alexander Wilde, Ron Bergman, Jack Litch, Carolyn Walker, Bradley Pieper, Chuck Venturi, Gene Herson, Jon Kwitny, The Alfred E. Neuman [Auto] Racing Club, G. J. Manos, Nancy Gaines, and William Doorly.
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Cleaned Out!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: House ad for pinups suitable for framing.
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Pages: 0.17
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Do Your Christmas Shopping Early

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: House ad for MAD subscriptions.
Illustration is excerpt from a previous issue of Panic.
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The End of Comics

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Installment Overdue Dept.
Character(s): Puck; Sandy; Annie's real mother; Pogo; Albert the Alligator; Chief; Junior; Toonerville's The Skipper; Mary Worth; Mary's nephew; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Li'l Abner
Synopsis: Possible final strips for when newspapers have to eliminate comics to use the space for more educational features.
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In Content Item: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981
as The End of Comics [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Parodies these strips: Little Orphan Annie; Mandrake The Magician; Pogo; Dick Tracy; Mary Worth; Li'l Abner; Dennis The Menace; Henry; Smilin' Jack; Blondie.
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Future Magazine Mergers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Nikita Krushchev
Synopsis: Unlikely magazine titles for when magazines merge.
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Pages: 3
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Scenes We'd Like To See: The Frogmen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Enemy frogmen successfully blow up each other's ships and are then stranded mid-ocean.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This may be Al Jaffee's first script for Mad. According to info in Feldstein: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein by Grant Geissman Jaffee contributed to this issue, alhough it does not specifically note what story. Early on Jaffee was only writing scripts for other artists to illustrate.
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The Electricians

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Two building maintenance men try to find why a toaster won't work.
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Pages: 2
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If Hollywood Directors Staged...Advertising Photos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Parodies of ads depicted in the styles of directors: Alfred Hitchcock; Elia Kazan; Cecil B. DeMille; Sam Katzman.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Ads parodied are: Body By Fisher; Joy Detergent; Marlboro Cigarettes; White Rock beverages.
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Pushcarts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Food For Thought Dept.
Synopsis: History of merchandising by pushcarts and projection to a future where stores are so large that vendors sell by pushcarts within the stores.
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In Content Item: FlagDave Berg's Mad Trash #[nn] published January 1981
as Pushcarts [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Health Chairs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Relax in Discomfort Dept.
Synopsis: Taking the fad of reclining chairs to extremes.
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Pages: 2
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The MAD Halloween Trick-Or-Treatment

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Hobble Them Goblins Dept.
Synopsis: A list of revenges against common Halloween pranks.
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Pages: 2
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The MAD Treasury of Unknown Poetry

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Parodies of famous poems.
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In Content Item: FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as The Mad Treasury Of Unknown Poetry [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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Special Lamps for Reading Magazines

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Light of Your LIFE Dept.
Character(s): Alfred E. Neuman
Synopsis: Reading lamps designed in styles to match popular magazine content.
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Pages: 2
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Misleading Headlines

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Sarah Klunk; Sidney Klutz; Byron Brisket; Gladys Glotz; Carl Umlaut; Fred Mildew; Hank Shlubb; Alfred E. Neuman
Synopsis: Headlines that purposefully do not describe the underlying newspaper articles.
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Pages: 2
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The New Baby

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Milton Schafer (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Danny Kaye
Synopsis: Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.
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In Content Item: FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as The New Baby [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Song copyright 1957 by Frank Music Corp.
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Coming Musicals

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): And Then I Wrote Dept.
Synopsis: Broadway musicals based on unlikely source material.
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Pages: 3
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The End Of A Perfect Day

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man has trained his dog to fetch him everything...including his wife.
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Pages: 1
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Music Report

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Bob Elliott; Ray Goulding; Wally Ballew; Filbert Hoffenberger
Synopsis: Wally interviews a man who tests the truth of song lyrics and watches him demonstrate "It's a treat to beat your feet in the Mississippi Mud."
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Pages: 3
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Payhouse 90

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Ficticious filming schedule for tv show, showing that it mostly consists of commercials.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Show parodied is Playhouse 90. Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.
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The Smithshop

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Traumatic Workshop Dept.
Synopsis: The ultimate in the trend towards combined home woodworking shop tools, parodying the Shopsmith.
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Pages: 2
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Woodlore

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A guidebook to (phony) dangerous plants and animals of the woods.
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In Content Item: FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as Woodlore [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The Bathtub Admiral

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Milton Schafer (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Danny Kaye
Synopsis: Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Song copyright 1957 by Frank Music Corp.: this and writer credits given in the first Danny Kaye Dept. of this issue.
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Down Lovers' Lane

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Two couples carve a heart; one on a tree and one on a forehead.
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Pages: 1
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You'll "Go Far" In A MAD T-Shirt

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for t-shirts with Alfred E. Neuman on front on inside back cover.
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Proverbs Revisited

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Common proverbs with twist endings.
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Pages: 0
Disclose Notes: Appear in the margins of 22 pages of the issue.
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Look Mom - No More Cavities!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Crust Gumpaste
Character(s): Melvin Furd
Synopsis: Parody of ad for Crest Toothpaste, with painting signed as "Norman Rocknroll."
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In Content Item: FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as Mad ad: Crust Gum Paste [Story on Interior Page(s)]back cover
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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