| Issue | #9 |
| Published | February - March 1954 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Harvey Kurtzman |
| Notes | Character appearances, Department names and other miscellaneous info for this issue added by Donald Dale Milne, December 2008. |
| Genre | humor; western |
| Pencils | Harvey Kurtzman (signed) |
| Inks | Harvey Kurtzman (signed) |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Letters | Harvey Kurtzman |
| Notes | Character appearances, Department names and other miscellaneous info for this issue added by Donald Dale Milne, December 2008. |
| Reprinted | in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn] |
| Synopsis | House ad for E.C. Fan-Addict Club membership. |
| Pencils | Jack Davis (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Davis (signed) |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
| Characters | Little Orphan Melvin; Daddy Peacebucks; Punjoke; Gravel; Ax L. Maxl; The Gasp!; Mommy Peacebucks |
| Synopsis | Daddy is continually too late to save Melvin from danger, and also cannot save himself from Mommy. |
| Genre | humor; parody |
| Script | Harvey Kurtzman |
| Pencils | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Inks | Wally Wood (signed) |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Notes | A parody of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. Includes a stanza of a poem by Byron. |
| Reprinted | in Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #178; Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #3 |
| Characters | a raven; the narrator; Lenore |
| Synopsis | An adaptation of Poe's poem "The Raven." |
| Genre | humor; parody |
| Script | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Pencils | Bill Elder (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Elder (signed) |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Notes | This is the text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations. |
| Reprinted | in Utterly Mad (Ballantine Books, 1956 series) #178; in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn]; Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #3 |
| Synopsis | Letters of comment from Hentry Hartz in Utica, New York; Keith Nutt in Midland, Texas; Ann Salvin in Westfield, Connecticutt; Dick Clarkson in Cambridge, Massaschusetts; Ben Jones in Quinwood, West Virginia; Jerry Schuler in Rochester, New York; Clyde Woddell in Alexandira, Louisiana; Ann Busch in Buffalo, New York; and Raoul D'Arcy |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Melvin; Irving |
| Synopsis | A subscription ad for Panic. |
| Pencils | Jack Davis (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Davis (signed) |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Synopsis | Five gags using Bop terms. |
| Genre | gags |
| Script | Harvey Kurtzman |
| Pencils | John Severin (signed) |
| Inks | John Severin (signed) |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Notes | Includes a 1-page Bop Dictionary, so reader can understand the gags. |
| Reprinted | in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #3 |
| Characters | Five Fingers Jones; Floppova Movova |
| Synopsis | Five Fingers meets Floppova while searching Moscow for the artificial dirt factory. |
| Genre | humor |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #3 |
| Characters | Marshall Kane; Mrs. Kane; Marshall Floodnick; Killer Diller Miller; Ramona |
| Synopsis | Marshall Kane dithers about leaving town, beats up another marshall, and kills some accomplices of Miller before subduing Miller without violence. |
| Genre | humor; parody; western |
| Script | Harvey Kurtzman |
| Pencils | Jack Davis (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Davis (signed) |
| Colors | Marie Severin |
| Notes | A parody of the Gary Cooper film "High Noon." |
| Reprinted | in Bedside Mad, The (Signet Books, 1959 series) #S1647; in Bedside Mad, The (Signet Books, 1959 series) #D2316; in Bedside Mad, The (Signet Books, 1959 series) #P3520; MAD Special [MAD Super Special] #12 (EC, 1970 series) |
| Synopsis | An ad for National Schools vocational training. |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Lonnie Glosson; Wayne Raney |
| Synopsis | An ad for Lonnie and Wayne Studios guitar lessons. |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
| Synopsis | An ad for International Binocular Company Spektoscopes. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |