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Issue: Mad #164
Publication Date: January 1974
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Issues: #164 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: $0.40 USD
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Content Items: 20 (14 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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FlagNorsk Mad #4/1981 published November 1981 as Mad viser baksidene med jul og nyttår [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Ryan O'Neal [as Moses Pray]; Alfred E. Neuman [as Addie]
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Pages: 1
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On a Cold Winter Evening

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Pinocchio; Geppetto
Synopsis: When there's no heat in the shop, it's not a good thing to be a wooden boy.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Among the letters is one from comic book historian Hames Ware.
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Haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Presents?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Ebeneezer Scrooge; Alfred E. Neuman [as Jacob Marley]
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Pages: 1
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Kung Fool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Chop Schtick Dept.
Character(s): David Carradine [as Tame]; Keye Luke [as Master]
Synopsis: In a parody of the TV series "Kung Fu," a fugitive Shaolin Monk roams the west demonstrating his physical superiority and his social naivete.
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Pages: 7
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A Modern Fairy Tale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): House Dressing Dept.
Synopsis: An old witch must use modern marketing to attract kids to her cottage.
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Pages: 1
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New Names for Old Occupations

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Vocational Straining Dept.
Synopsis: Various occupations are given ironic new names.
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Pages: 2
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When All Businesses Rely on Sales Promotion Gimmicks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Land of the Freebie Dept.
Synopsis: Promotions and premiums for businesses usually not associated with such things.
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Pages: 4
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Customized Mobile Homes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Roam, Sweet Home Dept.
Synopsis: Mobile homes and trailers that reflect the owner's origins.
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Pages: 2
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The Lighter Side of the Holiday Season

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The ups and downs of the holiday season and how people deal with them.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Berg puts a caricature of Mad publisher William Gaines in the final panels of the feature.
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An Architectural Triumph

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Best Splayed Plans Dept.
Synopsis: A foreign object on blueprints gets built into the structure.
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Pages: 2
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Yecch, or What a Waste!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A modern metropolis is menaced by a pile of human fecal matter come to life.
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Pages: 6
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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 remotely diffuses a trap set by the Black Spy.
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Pages: 1
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Drawn Out Dramas

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: Cartoons drawn into the margins of random pages.
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Mad's 1973 Christmas Poem

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Holiday Jeer Dept.
Character(s): Richard Nixon; Pat Nixon; John Mitchell; E. Howard Hunt; John Dean; Mickey Rooney; Helen Gurley Brown; Frank Gifford; Don Meredith; Howard Cosell; Charlie Brown; Snoopy; Charles Schulz; Linda Lovelace; Elizabeth Taylor; Richard Burton; Jane Fonda; Gloria Steinem; Mark Spitz; Bob Hope; Sean Connery; Roger Moore; David Cassidy; Marlon Brando; Maria Schneider; Jack Paar; Mick Jagger; Johnny Cash; Ringo Starr; Rev. Billy Graham; John Wayne; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Synopsis: A poem listing gifts Mad would give to various celebrities.
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Pages: 2
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Mad's Rattlers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Wise Guide Dept.
Synopsis: Examples of sarcastic answers for every day occurrences.
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Pages: 2
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What's in a Name, Part Two: Institutions

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Letter Openers Dept.
Synopsis: Particular letters in the names of common institutions are enlarged to provide a commentary on that institution.
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Pages: 2
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Caper Goon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ryan's Daughter Dept.
Character(s): Ryan O'Neal [as Snowjob Prey]; Tatum O'Neal [as Oddie Bodkins]; Madeline Kahn [as Pixie Ignite]
Synopsis: In a parody of the film "Paper Moon," an iterate grifter is saddled with an obnoxious ten year old girl in the Depression-Era American Southwest.
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Pages: 8
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When Is There Never a Shortage of Gas?

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A commentary on the gas shortage and the political system.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Christmas Morning - - 1973

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Members of the Nixon White House get a note from Santa in their stockings.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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