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Issue: Mad #314
Publication Date: October 1992
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Issues: #314 of 550 Issues (622 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 07098933230010
Price: $1.75 USD
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Content Items: 19 (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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FlagMad about Super Heroes #[nn] published January 2006 as Buttman Returns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMad's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonès #[nn] published January 2010 as A Mad Look at the Olympics [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMad #504 published August 2010 as The MAD Vault 1992 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Mad
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Pages: 1
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Buttman Returns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Buttman; Neuman; Scatwoman [Saltina]; the Penicillin; Commissioner Boredom; Stimpy (cameo); the Jerker (cameo); Dennis the Menace (cameo); Snoopy (cameo); Charlie Brown (cameo); Pinocchio (cameo)
Synopsis: As the Penicillin ingratiates himself with the people of Gotham City, Saltina discovers her boss's corruption; he pushes her out the window, but she's revived by cats. As Scatwoman she attacks men, including Buttman, even though though they're attracted to each other; as Saltina, she also forms a relationship with Buttman's alter ego. Scatwoman and the corrupt boss are electrocuted, the Penicillin drowns. Buttman feels empty and unfulfilled; the Jerker reveals that he wrote this terrible screenplay so that Buttman will die of embarrassment.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Parodies the 1992 movie Batman Returns.
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The Pump Idea in Other Products

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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 3
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High-Tech Excuses for the 90’s

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Genres: humorous
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Drama on Page 16

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tales from the Script Dept.
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Why the 21st Century May Be Even Worse Than This One!

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Doom with a View Dept.
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Small But Significant Inventions of the Past

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Behind the Create Ball Dept.
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New Twists on Old Jokes

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Quip-Change Artists Dept.
Character(s): George Burns; Robin Williams; Whoopi Goldberg; Jay Leno; Yakov Smirnoff; others
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The Lost Playground of Kids Your Parents Always Told You About But You’ve Never Seen Yourself!!!

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Myth-Conceptions Dept.
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A Spotter’s Guide to Trendy Groups of the 90’s

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Massing Persons Dept.
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Spy vs. Spy

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Black Spy; the White Spy
Synopsis: The White Spy turns the Black Spy's violin into a slingshot.
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JFK Conspiracy Theories Oliver Stone Left on the Cutting Room Floor

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Omissions Accomplished Dept.
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The Lighter Side of…

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Single entry strips satirizing how people deal with taste, shopping, appearances, revenge, technology, beating the system, merchandising, homework, presentation, children, memory, travel, the office, make believe, and doctors.
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Mad Presents Selected Scenes from the Transylvania Mall

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Feature(s): Little Shops of Horrors Dept.
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Basically, It Stinks

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Feature(s): Romancing Ms. Stone Dept.
Character(s): Michael Douglas [as Nurk Currant]; Sharon Stone [as Catty Tumble]; George Dzundza [as Gas]; Jeanne Tripplehorn [as Dr. Groaner]; Leilani Sarelle [as Racy]
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Parody of the movie “Basic Instinct”.
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A Mad Look at the Olympics

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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 3
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Drama on Page 48

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Shrink Rap Dept.
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What Assumed Protector of Our Individual Rights Has Been a Stunning Disappointment?

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside back cover
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America's Favorite Dictators!

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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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