| Issue | #43 |
| Published | December 1958 |
| Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
| Pages | 52 |
| Editing | Albert B. Feldstein |
| Characters | Alfred E. Neuman |
| Genre | humor |
| Pencils | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
| Inks | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
| Colors | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Mad (EC, 1952 Series) #480 |
| Characters | Brigitte Bardot (sic) |
| Synopsis | Parody of American Express Travelers Cheques ads. |
| Genre | satire |
| Pencils | Kelly Freas (signed) |
| Inks | Kelly Freas (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
| Synopsis | Art is excerpts from this issue. |
| Pencils | various |
| Inks | various |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Harry Jingo; Babe Brando; Enos Schwack; "School Boy" Drake; Hank Ozone; Jake Jacobs; Leo Screech |
| Synopsis | Acting awards for baseball players hamming it up for fans and the camera during games. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Larry Siegel |
| Pencils | George Woodbridge (signed) |
| Inks | George Woodbridge (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
| Characters | Alfred E. Neuman |
| Synopsis | House ad for hardcover book from Crown Publishers. |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Synopsis | House ad for a MAD paperback book. |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | The Alfred E. Neuman [Auto] Racing Club; Bill Gaines's daughter |
| Synopsis | Letters of comment, mostly about issue #40. Includes a photo of Bill Gaines's (unnamed) daughter. |
| Script | Albert B. Feldstein; Alexander Wilde; Ron Bergman; Jack Litch; Carolyn Walker; Bradley Pieper; Chuck Venturi; Gene Herson; Jon Kwitny; The Alfred E. Neuman [Auto] Racing Club; G. J. Manos; Nancy Gaines; William Doorly |
| Pencils | various; ? (photo) |
| Inks | various; ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Notes that "Famous Monsters of Filmland #2" includes some article reprinted from an issue of MAD. |
| Characters | Alfred E. Neuman |
| Synopsis | House ad for pinups suitable for framing. |
| Pencils | Norman Mingo (painted) |
| Inks | Norman Mingo (painted) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Santa Claus |
| Synopsis | House ad for MAD subscriptions. |
| Pencils | Bill Elder |
| Inks | Bill Elder |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Illustration is excerpt from a previous issue of Panic. |
| Characters | Puck; Little Orphan Annie; Daddy Warbucks; Annie's real mother; Sandy; Mandrake The Magician; Lothar; Pogo; Albert the Alligator; Dick Tracy; Chief; Junior; Toonerville's The Skipper; Mary Worth; Mary's nephew; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Li'l Abner; Dennis The Menace; Henry; Smilin' Jack; Blondie Bumstead |
| Synopsis | Possible final strips for when newspapers have to eliminate comics to use the space for more educational features. |
| Genre | satire |
| Script | Tom Koch |
| Pencils | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Inks | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Notes | Parodies these strips: Little Orphan Annie; Mandrake The Magician; Pogo; Dick Tracy; Mary Worth; Li'l Abner; Dennis The Menace; Henry; Smilin' Jack; Blondie |
| Reprinted | in MAD Special [MAD Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #36 |
| Characters | Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Nikita Krushchev |
| Synopsis | Unlikely magazine titles for when magazines merge. |
| Genre | satire |
| Script | Tom Koch |
| Pencils | Bob Clarke |
| Inks | Bob Clarke |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
| Synopsis | Enemy frogmen successfully blow up each other's ships and are then stranded mid-ocean. |
| Genre | satire |
| Pencils | Joe Orlando (signed) |
| Inks | Joe Orlando (signed) |
| Synopsis | Two building maintenance men try to find why a toaster won't work. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Don Martin (signed) |
| Pencils | Don Martin (signed) |
| Inks | Don Martin (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Synopsis | Parodies of ads depicted in the styles of directors: Alfred Hitchcock; Elia Kazan; Cecil B. DeMille; Sam Katzman. |
| Genre | satire |
| Pencils | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Inks | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Ads parodied are: Body By Fisher; Joy Detergent; Marlboro Cigarettes; White Rock beverages. |
| Synopsis | History of merchandising by pushcarts and projection to a future where stores are so large that vendors sell by pushcarts within the stores. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Dave Berg (signed) |
| Pencils | Dave Berg (signed) |
| Inks | Dave Berg (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | In Dave Berg's Mad Trash (EC, 1981 series) #[nn] |
| Synopsis | Taking the fad of reclining chairs to extremes. |
| Genre | humor |
| Pencils | Bob Clarke |
| Inks | Bob Clarke |
| Letters | typeset |
| Synopsis | A list of revenges against common Halloween pranks. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Frank Jacobs |
| Pencils | Mort Drucker |
| Inks | Mort Drucker |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
| Synopsis | Parodies of famous poems. |
| Genre | satire |
| Script | Tom Koch |
| Pencils | Joe Orlando |
| Inks | Joe Orlando |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
| Reprinted | in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn] |
| Characters | Alfred E. Neuman |
| Synopsis | Reading lamps designed in styles to match popular magazine content. |
| Genre | humor |
| Pencils | Bob Clarke (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Clarke (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Sarah Klunk; Sidney Klutz; Byron Brisket; Gladys Glotz; Carl Umlaut; Fred Mildew; Hank Shlubb; Alfred E. Neuman |
| Synopsis | Headlines that purposefully do not describe the underlying newspaper articles. |
| Genre | satire |
| Script | Frank Jacobs |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
| Characters | Danny Kaye |
| Synopsis | Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Milton Schafer; Danny Kaye |
| Pencils | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Inks | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Song copyright 1957 by Frank Music Corp. |
| Reprinted | in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn] |
| Synopsis | Broadway musicals based on unlikely source material. |
| Genre | satire |
| Script | Larry Siegel; Frank Jacobs |
| Pencils | Bob Clarke (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Clarke (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
| Synopsis | A man has trained his dog to fetch him everything...including his wife. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Don Martin (signed) |
| Pencils | Don Martin (signed) |
| Inks | Don Martin (signed) |
| Characters | Bob Elliott; Ray Goulding; Wally Ballew; Filbert Hoffenberger |
| Synopsis | Wally interviews a man who tests the truth of song lyrics and watches him demonstrate "It's a treat to beat your feet in the Mississippi Mud." |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Bob Elliott; Ray Goulding |
| Pencils | Mort Drucker (signed) |
| Inks | Mort Drucker (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Synopsis | Ficticious filming schedule for tv show, showing that it mostly consists of commercials. |
| Genre | satire |
| Script | Albert Meglin |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Show parodied is Playhouse 90. Writer credit from "Totally MAD" CD collection. |
| Synopsis | The ultimate in the trend towards combined home woodworking shop tools, parodying the Shopsmith. |
| Genre | satire |
| Pencils | Bob Clarke (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Clarke (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Synopsis | A guidebook to (phony) dangerous plants and animals of the woods. |
| Genre | humor |
| Pencils | George Woodbridge (signed) |
| Inks | George Woodbridge (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn] |
| Characters | Danny Kaye |
| Synopsis | Song lyrics as performed by Danny Kaye, with illustrations. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Milton Schafer; Danny Kaye |
| Pencils | Wallace Wood (signed) |
| Inks | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Song copyright 1957 by Frank Music Corp.: this and writer credits given in the first Danny Kaye Dept. of this issue. |
| Synopsis | Two couples carve a heart; one on a tree and one on a forehead. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Don Martin (signed) |
| Pencils | Don Martin (signed) |
| Inks | Don Martin (signed) |
| Characters | Alfred E. Neuman |
| Synopsis | House ad for t-shirts with Alfred E. Neuman on front. |
| Pencils | Larry Maleman (photo); Wally Wood |
| Inks | Larry Maleman (photo); Wally Wood |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | On inside back cover. |
| Synopsis | Common proverbs with twist endings. |
| Genre | humor |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Appear in the margins of 22 pages of the issue. |
| Characters | Melvin Furd |
| Synopsis | Parody of ad for Crest Toothpaste, with painting signed as "Norman Rocknroll." |
| Genre | satire |
| Pencils | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
| Inks | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
| Colors | Kelly Freas (painted, signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |