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Issue: Mad #85
Publication Date: March 1964
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Issues: #85 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/26/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.30 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 24 (19 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981 as Future Educational Comic Pamphlets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Alfred E. Neuman; Abraham Lincoln
Synopsis: Alfred gets a surprise when he knocks someone's hat off with a snowball.
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Pages: 1
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Aviz Can't Afford Dirty Plugs

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Parody of Avis print ads; A car rental company reveals the cynical back story to its well known advertising slogan.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Filed October 23, 1962; Listed owners: EC Publications Inc, A.M. Sonnabend, Frank G. Binswanger, Michael Daroff; Publisher William M. Gaines, 850 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10022; Editor Albert Feldstein, same; Total Paid Circulation, avg 12 months: 55,070
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Why Kill Yourself?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A despondent man tries to get an ice skater to decapitate him because he missed the latest issue of Mad.
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Pages: 0.33
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Mannie Get Your Ghoul

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Downbeast Dept.
Character(s): Vincent Price; Peter Lorre; Frankenstein's Monster; Dracula; The Wolf Man; The Creature From The Black Lagoon
Synopsis: A Broadway musical is written and staged starring old movie monsters.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Famous Protest Campaigns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): And the Bans Played On Dept.
Synopsis: Historical situations where organized protest demonstrations might have changed history.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Drawn Out Dramas

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 0
Disclose Notes: Various cartoons drawn into the margins of random pages.
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At a Matinee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: At a movie theater, a man loudly complains about his blocked view.
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Pages: 1
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Mad Beasties

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Word Game Preserve Dept.
Synopsis: Pun illustrations of random words.
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Pages: 2
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The Rescue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Claws and Effect Dept.
Synopsis: Fire fighters rescue a cat from a tree.
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Pages: 1
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The Minute That TV Show is Over

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Other Side of the Corn Dept.
Character(s): Clayton "Bud" Collyer; Garry Moore; Durwood Kirby; Allen Funt; Buddy Ebsen [as Jed Clampett]; Irene Ryan [as Granny Clampett]
Synopsis: Unexpected events that happen after a television show has been broadcast.
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Pages: 2
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Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy
Synopsis: The White Spy decoys the Black Spy over a cliff.
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The Lighter Side of the College Crowd

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Life in college is satirized.
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Pages: 3
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The Sunday Drive

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A shrewish woman criticizes her meek husband's driving.
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Pages: 1
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What Could Happen When They Use Numbers for Everything

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): No. Dept.
Synopsis: Numbers begin to replace words in ordinary conversation.
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Pages: 3
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Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy
Synopsis: The White Spy gathers the rocket parts the Black Spy "accidentally" drops.
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Pages: 1
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Future Educational Comic Pamphlets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dick Tracy; The Brow; Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh; Popeye; Olive Oyl; Bluto; Mary Worth
Synopsis: Using well-known comic strip characters in promotional pamphlets for various businesses and organizations.
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In Content Item: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #36 [$1.75 Cover Price] published January 1981
as Future Educational Comic Pamphlets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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A TV Ad We'd Like to See

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Candid Camerawork Dept.
Synopsis: Parody of Tide Detergent television ads; a housewife caught on camera praising the product isn't as spontaneous as we're led to believe.
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Pages: 1
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The Mad Hospital Primer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): A Ward to the Wise Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of what to expect if you have to spend time in the hospital.
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Pages: 3
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The Real Story Behind the News

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Stop the Pressures Dept.
Synopsis: Normally barely noticed news stories are given expanded coverage for reasons other than the story's newsworthiness.
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Pages: 4
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Spy Vs. Spy Vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Black Spy; The White Spy; The Gray Spy
Synopsis: The Gray Spy tries to be a peace broker between the other two spies.
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Pages: 1
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Strange Interlude With Hazey

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Maid in the U.S.A. Dept.
Character(s): Shirley Booth [as Hazey]; Don DeFore [as George Baxter]; Whitney Blake [as Dorothy Baxter]; Bobby Buntrock [as Harold Baxter]
Synopsis: The television series "Hazel" is staged as if it were the play "Strange Interlude".
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Pages: 3
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The Hunter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A hunter tests a new moose call.
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Pages: 1
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This Capsule Made $47,895,252.38 So Far

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Parody of pharmaceutical company print ads; A pharmaceutical company gloats about the profits they've made from their potentially harmful product.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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