MAD comic books issue 517

Cover by Mark Fredrickson. Stories and art by Drew Friedman, Rick Geary, Gary Hallgren, Al Jaffee, Dick DeBartolo, John Caldwell, Scott Maiko, Jeff Kruse, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Stan Sinberg, Jacob Lambert, Douglas Paszkiewicz, Nathan Bulmer, Dustin Harbin, Brian Gordon, Brian Durniak, Scott Bricher, Chelsea Carr, Eric Scott, Tim Carvell, Christopher Baldwin, Tom Bunk, Paul Peter Porges, Tom Richmond, Peter Kuper, and Sergio Aragones, plus Fundalini Pages by Matt Lassen, Desmond Devlin, Rick Tulka, Glen LeLievre, Kenny Keil, Mike Lynch, Timothy Shamey, Barry Liebmann, Bob Staake, Ray Alma, Charles Akins, Sam Sisco, Anton Emdin, Scott Maiko, and Jeff Kruse. A parody of the first Marvel Avengers movie. Mad keeps up with the new media, featuring selections from Mad's blog, "The Idiotical." Improving presidential debates, with art by indie cartoonist Rick Geary. Articles featuring art by noted caricaturist Drew Friedman and underground comix legend Gary Hallgren. Mad's decades-long anti-tobacco campaign resumes with the first of a series of ad parodies targeting "natural" tobacco brands. If "O Magazine" was about Obama instead of Oprah. Mad's takes on theme parks, college prep courses, and cheating pro athletes. Marginals by Sergio Aragones, and Spy vs. Spy. The Fundalini Pages; The ScAvengers; Men's Wealth; Minor Sports Cheaters and Their Shocking Confessions; Mad's Practical College Prep Courses; If Their Candidate... If Your Candidate...; A Mad Look at the Zoo; O - The Obama Magazine; Spy vs. Spy; How to Make the Presidential Debates More Interesting; Planet TAD!!!!!; The Strip Club; Enchanted Lake Storytown Forest; The Mad Vault: We Won't Miss Them...Or Will We?!?; How Mitt Romney Plans to Win Every State; The Best of The Idiotical; Fold-In; Native American Sputum. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 60 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $5.99.