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Issue: Mad #225
Publication Date: September 1981
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Issues: #225 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: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 0709893323007
Price: $0.90 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 23 (16 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: This is a flip book with a flip cover. Production by Leonard Brenner and Tom Nozkowski.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Alfred E. Neuman
Character(s): Popeye [Robin Williams]; Olive Oyl [Shelley Duvall]; Alfred E. Neuman
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Pages: 1
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Mad Super Special Winter 1981

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mad Super Special
Character(s): Alfred E. Neuman
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Pages: 1
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Table of contents for POPEYE side of the issue.
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Flopeye

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Strip-Wrecked Dept.
Character(s): Flopeye; Olives Oil; Wimpy; Bruto; Pappy; Charlie Brown; Lucy Van Pelt
Synopsis: A satire of the movie Popeye.
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Pages: 7
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Don Martin Dept. Part I: One Blazing Hot Day on the Desert

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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A Mad Look at Some... Celebrities Diapers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Inside Poop Dept.
Character(s): Attila the Hun; Hare Krishna; Jesse James; Pythagoras; Harry Houdini; Mickey Mouse; Muhammad Ali; Napoleon; The Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan; Yasir Arafat; Lady Godiva; Steve Martin; Arnold Schwarzeneger; Kiss
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If They Can Put a Man on the Moon, Then Why Can't They...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Luna-Ticked Off Dept.
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Mad's Airline President of the Year

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Plane Nonsense Dept.
Character(s): O.G. Simpleton; Mr. Quincy Widebody; Jasper Wiltfang
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Pages: 4
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Mad's Really Relevant Book of Lists

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Compiling It On Dept.
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In Content Item: FlagA Mad Big Book [Mad Zaps The Human Race!] #[nn] [unnamed variant] published March 1984
as Mad's Really Relevant Book Of Lists [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
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Publically Prohibited Bad Habits of the Future

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Pest-Aside Dept.
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Letters Dept.

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Inker(s): ? (photos); ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Anthony Perkins (photo); Dick Clark (photo); Cathy Gaines Misfud (daughter of William Gaines; wedding photo); Steve Misfud (wedding photo)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from readers - Jonathan Morga; Billy Charnock; William J. Keogh, Robert Orr, Bruce Liber, Ted Koppel (ABC News), Anthony Perkins (actor), Dick Clark (American Bandstand), David Kushner, Scott Alexander Kennedy, Gary D. Teubert, Patrick Domitrz and Cathy Gaines Misfud (daughter of William Gaines).
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Altered States Flip Cover

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Alfred E. Neuman
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What Ancient Slow-Moving Creature Is Threatened with Extinction?

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: Inside flip cover and in color. Answer is: The postal service.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Table of contents for the ALTERED STATES side of the issue.
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Assaulted State

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): From “Soup” to “Nuts” Dept.
Character(s): Artwerp; Oddie; Perish; Dr. Carmella; Enema
Synopsis: A satire of the movie Altered States.
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Pages: 6
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Real Life Madness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Other Side of the Con Dept.
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Don Martin Dept. Part I: One Blazing Hot Day on the Beach

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
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In Content Item: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #54 published January 1985
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Pages: 1
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William Shakespeare... Social Critic

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Something Is Rotten Dept.
Character(s): William Shakespeare; Kiss; Rolling Stones; Mork & Mindy; Alfred E. Neuman; Barbra Streisand
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The Lighter Side of...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The Lighter Side of... Dining Out; Collections; Photography; Punishment; Television; The Car; TV News; Food; Crime; Boating; Obsessions; The Beach; The Telephone; and Accidents.
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Pages: 5
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Spy vs. Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: espionage, humorous
Character(s): Black Spy; White Spy
Synopsis: Black Spy uses a slingshot under his hat to strike back at the White Spy.
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Pages: 1
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Mad's Career-Oriented Mother Goose

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Re: Verse Psychology Dept.
Synopsis: Rhymes include... Mary Had an LTD; Jack and Jill; Little Miss Muffet; As I Was Going to St. Ives; Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son; Humpty Dumpty; Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee; Little Boy Blue; Taffy Was A Hitman.
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Don Martin Dept. Part II: One Blazing Hot Day on Main Street

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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In Content Item: FlagMad Special [Mad Super Special] #54 published January 1985
as One Blazing Hot Day on Main Street [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Drawn-Out Dramas

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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: No page count as gags appear in various places around the magazine.

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