| Issue | #6 |
| Published | August - September 1953 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Harvey Kurtzman |
| Genre | humor |
| Pencils | Harvey Kurtzman (signed) |
| Inks | Harvey Kurtzman (signed) |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Reprinted | in Mad Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002) |
| Pencils | Jack Davis |
| Inks | Jack Davis |
| Notes | House ad for MAD subscriptions. On inside front cover. |
| Reprinted | in Mad Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002) |
| Characters | Teddy; Half-Shot; Pat O'Bryan; Burma Shave; Mr. Sandthirst; Connie; Big-Poop; The Dragging Lady; The Pirates |
| Synopsis | Teddy and Half-Shot are assigned to keep an opium shipment out of the hands of The Pirates, but one of them is an inside man. |
| Genre | satire |
| Pencils | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Inks | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Reprinted | in Mad Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002); Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #2 |
| Characters | Melvin of The Apes [Lord Melvin Greystroke]; Jane; Ookaballakonga tribe; Whitegreen Greystroke; Brown Greystroke; Veridian Greystroke; Magenta Greystroke; Duke Greystroke; Duchess Fushia Greystroke; |
| Synopsis | The Greystrokes take Melvin back to London but then flee him by going to Africa. |
| Genre | satire |
| Script | ? [as Egad (Long Grain) Rice Burroughs] |
| Pencils | John Severin [as Melvin Severin] |
| Inks | John Severin [as Melvin Severin] |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Notes | Ookaballakonga is spelled Ookabollakonga in this story. |
| Reprinted | in Mad Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002); Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #178; Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn]; Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #2 |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | House ad for E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence. |
| Reprinted | in Mad Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002) |
| Characters | Hevo Franklin; Red Haring |
| Synopsis | Mock interview with a basketball star Hevo Franklin, from Adison Square Grove. |
| Genre | humor |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Mad Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002) |
| Script | Harvey Kurtzman ? |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Mad Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002) |
| Characters | Cooney; Burrows; Flynn; Blake; Casey; umpire |
| Synopsis | Casey has a chance to hit the winning runs in a baseball game, but strikes out for the loss. |
| Genre | satire |
| Script | Ernest Lawrence Thayer |
| Pencils | Jack Davis (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Davis (signed) |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Notes | This is the text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations. |
| Reprinted | in Mad Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002); Bedside Mad, The (Ballantine Books, 1959 series) #S1647; Bedside Mad, The (Ballantine Books, 1959 series) #S1647; Bedside Mad, The (Ballantine Books, 1959 series) #S1647; Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #2 |
| Characters | Cecil B. V. D. Mill; ship's captain; ship's crew; Mr. Mill's cameraman; Lana Lynn; Pong; Ookabolaponga tribe; |
| Synopsis | Lana subdues Pong and Mr. Mill has him towed back to New York, only to find none of them quite fit in. |
| Genre | satire |
| Pencils | Bill Elder (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Elder (signed) |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Notes | A parody of the King Kong movie. |
| Reprinted | in Mad Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002); Mad Strikes Back (Ballantine Books, 1955 series) #106; MAD Special [MAD Super Special] (EC, 1970 series) #12; Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn]; Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #2 |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Ad for photo enlargements. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Ad for toy from Consumers Mart. On inside back cover. |
| Characters | Charles Atlas |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Ad for body-building method. On back cover. |