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Issue: Mad #43
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
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Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Alfred E. Neuman
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FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as Mad magazine covers [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMad #480 published August 2007
as What the Heck Is the Difference? [Activity on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMad #485 published January 2008
as Own A Piece Of MAD History! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMad #486 published February 2008
as Own A Piece Of MAD History! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMad #487 published March 2008
as Own A Piece Of MAD History! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMad #488 published April 2008
as Own A Piece Of MAD History! [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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I Never Carry More Than $50 in Cash

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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American Expense Account Cheques
Brigitte Bardot (sic)
Parody of American Express Travelers Cheques ads.
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FlagMore Trash from Mad #2 published January 1959
as I Never Carry More Than $50 in Cash [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
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Inside front cover.
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Departments

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Vital Features
Art is excerpts from this issue.
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MAD's M.V.B.T.A. Awards

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The Double-Play's the Thing Dept.
Harry Jingo; Babe Brando; Enos Schwack; "School Boy" Drake; Hank Ozone; Jake Jacobs; Leo Screech
Acting awards for baseball players hamming it up for fans and the camera during games.
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Help Make This Christmas a Memorable One

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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

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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)
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The Alfred E. Neuman [Auto] Racing Club; Bill Gaines's daughter
Letters of comment, mostly about issue #40. Includes a photo of Bill Gaines's (unnamed) daughter.
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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!

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House ad for pinups suitable for framing.
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Do Your Christmas Shopping Early

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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)
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?; typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Installment Overdue Dept.
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
Possible final strips for when newspapers have to eliminate comics to use the space for more educational features.
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FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981
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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

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Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Nikita Krushchev
Unlikely magazine titles for when magazines merge.
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Scenes We'd Like To See: The Frogmen

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Enemy frogmen successfully blow up each other's ships and are then stranded mid-ocean.
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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

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Two building maintenance men try to find why a toaster won't work.
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If Hollywood Directors Staged...Advertising Photos

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Parodies of ads depicted in the styles of directors: Alfred Hitchcock; Elia Kazan; Cecil B. DeMille; Sam Katzman.
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Ads parodied are: Body By Fisher; Joy Detergent; Marlboro Cigarettes; White Rock beverages.
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Pushcarts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Food For Thought Dept.
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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FlagDave Berg's Mad Trash #[nn] published January 1981
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Health Chairs

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Relax in Discomfort Dept.
Taking the fad of reclining chairs to extremes.
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The MAD Halloween Trick-Or-Treatment

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Hobble Them Goblins Dept.
A list of revenges against common Halloween pranks.
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The MAD Treasury of Unknown Poetry

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Parodies of famous poems.
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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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Special Lamps for Reading Magazines

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Light of Your LIFE Dept.
Alfred E. Neuman
Reading lamps designed in styles to match popular magazine content.
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Misleading Headlines

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Sarah Klunk; Sidney Klutz; Byron Brisket; Gladys Glotz; Carl Umlaut; Fred Mildew; Hank Shlubb; Alfred E. Neuman
Headlines that purposefully do not describe the underlying newspaper articles.
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The New Baby

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Milton Schafer (credited)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Danny Kaye
Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.
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FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as The New Baby [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Song copyright 1957 by Frank Music Corp.
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Coming Musicals

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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And Then I Wrote Dept.
Broadway musicals based on unlikely source material.
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The End Of A Perfect Day

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A man has trained his dog to fetch him everything...including his wife.
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Music Report

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Bob Elliott; Ray Goulding; Wally Ballew; Filbert Hoffenberger
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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Payhouse 90

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Ficticious filming schedule for tv show, showing that it mostly consists of commercials.
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Show parodied is Playhouse 90. Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection.
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The Smithshop

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Traumatic Workshop Dept.
The ultimate in the trend towards combined home woodworking shop tools, parodying the Shopsmith.
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Woodlore

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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A guidebook to (phony) dangerous plants and animals of the woods.
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FlagMad about the Fifties #[nn] [Standard Edition] published January 1997
as Woodlore [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Bathtub Admiral

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Milton Schafer (credited)
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Danny Kaye
Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations.
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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
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Two couples carve a heart; one on a tree and one on a forehead.
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You'll "Go Far" In A MAD T-Shirt

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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)
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Common proverbs with twist endings.
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Appear in the margins of 22 pages of the issue.
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Look Mom - No More Cavities!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Crust Gumpaste
Melvin Furd
Parody of ad for Crest Toothpaste, with painting signed as "Norman Rocknroll."
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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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Back cover.

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