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Issue: Mad #139
Publication Date: December 1970
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Issues: #139 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/06/1970
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.35 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 22 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: With the exception of the covers, entire magazine is in black & white. On-sale date from 1970 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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The Magazine of the Loud Minority

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Alfred E. Neuman
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Vampire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Vampire; Hippy
Synopsis: A vampire gets the true meaning of peace when he drains the blood of a hippy.
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In Issue: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #14 published January 1974
In Issue: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #43 [$2.25 Cover Price] published January 1983
In Issue: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #62 published January 1988
In Content Item: FlagMad's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonès #[nn] published January 2010
as The Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. In color.
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Departments

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Contents page featuring staff listings & what's featured in the magazine, listed by special Mad departments.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Alfred E. Neuman
Synopsis: Two pages featuring three sections: first section is a subscription ad for Mad Magazine; middle section is the letters page with letters from Brian Hanley, Michael Altman, Tom Rogers, Andy Heyman, Helen Andrews, Grant Hicks, Oscar Geipi, Katie Campbell, Susan Shapiro, Helen Mars, Lynn Rainwater, Geoffrey T. Babbitt, W. True, Lynn Grubbs, Dale Belcher, Raven Amporan, Polly Boyd, A. J. Cantor, Joseph Martin, Mark Bronsveld, third section is an ad for Mad Power, a paperback novel with political themed reprints.
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Pages: 2
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Airplot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Coffee, Tea and Milked Dept.
Character(s): Mule Bakersdozen; Cinderblock; Tango Livingdoll; Vermin Swinger; B. Carria; Gryn Mayday; Antsin Hisspantz; Panicky Loudmouth; Obnoxious Kid; Adorable Nun; Phony Priest; Little Old Lady; Stowaway; Wide-Eyed Group Sickie
Synopsis: A satire of the movie Airport.
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In Issue: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #13 published January 1974
In Content Item: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #30 published January 1980
as Airplot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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A Mad Look at "Tokenism" of the Future

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): There's One in Every Crowd Dept.
Synopsis: Photo gags showing how ad agencies can go too far when pushing token minorities.
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Pages: 4
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One Day at a Construction Site

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Hippy; Two unnamed Construction workers
Synopsis: A hippy uses flower power, literally.
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Pages: 1
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The Lighter Side of... the Revolutionary Movement

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Roger Kaputnik
Synopsis: Dave Berg's Lighter Side of gag section focusing on a singular topic, The Revolutionary Movement.
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Pages: 5
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Hawks & Doves

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Fowl Play Dept.
Character(s): Major Hawks; Private Doves
Synopsis: Private Doves mows the army base's lawn into a peace symbol.
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In Issue: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #118 published February 1997
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is the third Hawks And Doves feature strip.
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Deceptive Money-Saving Labels

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Outside Pitch Dept.
Synopsis: Photo product gags with fine print price savers.
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Pages: 2
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Mad's Guaranteed Effective All-Occasion Non-Slanderous Political Smear Speech

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Death by Elocution Dept.
Synopsis: Political speech telling it like it is.
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In Issue: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #14 published January 1974
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Still Life

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Here's to You, Mr. Robinson Dept.
Synopsis: A collection of political gags featuring inanimate objects.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Originally presented in the Chicago Tribune.
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Silent Majority the Magazine for Middle America

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Putting the Right on Dept.
Synopsis: A mock magazine focusing on Middle American lifestyles.
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Pages: 5
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A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at an Ad Agency

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Inside-Ouch Dept.
Synopsis: Gags taken place in an ad agency office.
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Pages: 2
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Ads for Movie Revivals

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): "X" Ploy-tation Dept.
Character(s): Moses; Moby Dick; Captain Ahab; Snow White; Dopey; Grumpy; Doc; Happy; Bashful; Sneezy; Sleepy
Synopsis: Updating classic straight-laced films like Born Free; Moby Dick; Ten Commandments & Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs with a more adult sex themed angle.
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In Issue: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #14 published January 1974
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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A Mad Look at Two High School Generations

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Minor Adjustment Dept.
Synopsis: Comparing then and now, from the forties to the seventies, featuring the topics, movies; clothes; smoking; war; hair; school authority; family car & the school paper.
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In Issue: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #13 published January 1974
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Boomerang Bridge

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis: White Spy falls for Black Spy's bridge rock trap.
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Pages: 1
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Ironride

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sitting "Bull" Dept.
Character(s): Ironride; Eva; Edd; Muck Swinger; Finster
Synopsis: A TV satire of Ironhide.
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In Issue: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #14 published January 1974
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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One Day in a Crash Pad

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Answers the question, "Where does a hippy store his leftovers ?"
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In Issue: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #14 published January 1974
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mini? Midi? Maxi? What Kind of Clothing Style Would We Like to See Kids Wear?

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Another famous Mad Fold-In from Al Jaffee.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. In color.
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The Spiro of '76

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): A Future Political Campaign Poster
Synopsis: A painted poster of the Spirit Of '76 by Norman Mingo with all the characters played by Spiro Agnew.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Outside back cover. In color.
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Drawn-Out Dramas

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Sergio Aragones' mini textless gags that appear in various margins and panels on most of the pages in the magazine.
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Pages: 0
Disclose Notes: No page count as gags appear in Various Places Around The Magazine as noted in individual sequences.

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