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Issue: Mad #78
Publication Date: April 1963
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Issues: #78 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
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Variant: 30¢ Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.30 USD
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Content Items: 28 (16 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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FlagPocket Mad #4 published April 1991 as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Help Stamp Out Mad

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Alfred goes overboard with an ink pad stamp.
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In Content Item: FlagPocket Mad #4 published April 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Nippo...the Lighter That's Giving Zippo the Works

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Japan comes out with a cheap imitation of the Zippo cigarette lighter.
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Departments

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Disclose Notes: Art is excerpts from this issue.
Includes a quote attributed to Alfred E. Neuman: "If Communism is such a big success, why don't they put up a 'picture window' instead of an 'iron curtain'?
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Random Samplings of Reader Mail

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Dave Berg (photo)
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Disclose Notes: Letters of comment and 2 photos from readers: Mark Tarka, Alvin Cooper, Tom Reid, Jim Driskell, Bat Quinlan, Jerry Goldsmith, Chris Wilson, Allen Danziger, Tony Mendez, S.D.G., Cheryl Noll, Kenneth Schiff, John Dorgan, Bill Garcia, and Jerry Stimmel.
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Enjoy our Successful Lunacy Probe

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Feature(s): Mad Paperbacks
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Pages: 0.3
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No Longer Available!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Would You Recognize China?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Alfred E. Neuman bust
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Disclose Notes: House ad for china bust of Alfred E. Neuman.
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You Don't Have to Go Begging

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Mad Magazine
Synopsis: House ad for subscriptions to MAD Magazine.
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The Book Is Better Than the Picture!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): A Golden Trashery of Mad
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Disclose Notes: House ad for hardcover MAD book.
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Drawn-Out Dramas

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: Humorous margin illustrations appearing on 13 pages of the magazine.
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East Side Story

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Josip Broz Tito; Adlai Stevenson; Charles DeGaulle; Barry Goldwater; Władysław Gomułka; Harold Macmillan; Chiang Kai-shek; Antonio Segni; Nina Khrushchev
Synopsis: World politics and political debate centered at the United Nations complex, presented as a musical fashioned after the film "West Side Story".
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Disclose Notes: Mort Drucker's drawings are superimposed on actual photographs of the United Nations New York City complex. No photo credit is listed.
There is one other leader of a Communist Bloc country still unidentified, a short man with black hair and a large nose.
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The Suicide

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A woman tries to drown herself.
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How Parents Guess Wrong About Their Kids' Future Careers

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Great Oafs From Little Acorns Grow Dept.
Synopsis: Parents see their children exhibit certain behavior and predict, incorrectly, the child's future.
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Spy Vs. Spy

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The White Spy uses a paddle ball to assault the Black Spy; the Black Spy rolls a diving board away from the pool just as the While Spy jumps.
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Disclose Notes: Also credited in Morse code as "By Prohias".
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Future Group-Comparison Tests

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): With No Reimers or Reason Dept.
Character(s): Ed Reimers
Synopsis: Commercial product comparison tests are taken to absurd lengths.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Couple in the Allstate comparison group is drawn as the couple from Grant Wood's "American Gothic" painting.
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Speaking From Pictures

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Freedom With Speech Dept.
Character(s): Dwight Eisenhower; Mamie Eisenhower; Barry Goldwater; David Ben-Gurion
Synopsis: News wire photos with humorous captions added to satirize the pictured situation.
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The Daily Monopoly

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Editorial "I" Dept.
Synopsis: Parody of a modern newspaper.
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In a Men's Haberdashery

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man takes his time selecting a handkerchief.
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The Lighter Side of Dating

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Series of cartoons examining and satirizing dating rituals.
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Pages: 4
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The Darker Side of Telstar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spatial Delivery Dept.
Character(s): Vince Edwards [as Ben Casey]; David Ben-Gurion; Dean Martin; Jerry Lewis; Robert Stack [as Eliot Ness]; Walter Cronkite
Synopsis: The good and bad points of the recently launched Telstar communications satellite are presented.
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In the Klondike

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Two men meet on a narrow mountain pass and attempt to pass each other.
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Modern Chess

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): One False Move Dept.
Synopsis: Modifying the rules of the game and the look of the pieces of chess to reflect modern warfare issues.
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Spy Vs. Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Gray Spy
Synopsis: The Gray Spy lures the other spies into attacking each other; the Gray Spy uses an ejection seat in a taxi cab.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Also credited in Morse code as "By Prohias".
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My First College Primer

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Old Format, Frosh Approach Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of various types of college students.
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The Emergency

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Fire! Dept.
Synopsis: A man attempts to use the fire emergency system in an office building.
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If "Mardy" Were Made in Hollywood Today

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Playing For Bigger Steaks Dept.
Character(s): Ernest Borgnine [as Mardy]; Charlton Heston [as El Mardy]; Sophia Loren; Kirk Douglas; Yul Brynner; Agnes Morehead; Jack Palance; Ava Gardner; Joe Mantell [as Angie]; Loretta Young [as El Mardy's mother]
Synopsis: Remaking the 1955 film "Marty" as a multi-million dollar epic.
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Pages: 4
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Thought You Could Discourage Us by Not Buying "Mad 'Twists' Rock 'n' Roll"?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Mad record albums
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Disclose Notes: House ad for "Fink Along with Mad" and other Mad record albums.
On inside back cover.
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Erase That Cowardice with Historic Old Croc

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Parody of magazine Old Crow whiskey ads; John Wilkes Booth uses Old Croc whiskey to get up enough courage to assassinate the President.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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