MAD comic books issue 68

Cover art by Don Martin. Parody of Alpine cigarette print ads, art by Lester Krause. "Midnight TV Roulette," script by Gary Belkin, art by Jack Rickard; A viewer surfs between the three options on late night television: "Hamlet", a monster movie or The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. "The Appointment," script and art by Don Martin; A man races to make an appointment, but every means of transportation he uses breaks in half. "If Stars Had Ordinary Jobs," script by Arnie Kogen, art by Mort Drucker; featuring Groucho Marx; Art Linkletter; Mitch Miller; Chet Huntley; David Brinkley; Boris Karloff; and Ed Sullivan. "A Mad Look at Christmas," script and art by Dave Berg; Series of Christmas-based humorous situations. "Inspirational Poems By, For and About the Nation's Building Men," script by Larry Siegel, art by Joe Orlando; Famous poems altered to appeal to the construction industry. "The Comic Strip Characters' Christmas Party," script by Gary Belkin, art by Wally Wood. "Mad's Handy Guide to Languages of the U.S.A.," script by Gilbert Barnhill and Gary Belkin, art by Joe Orlando; Interpretations of slang terms endemic to various professions. "College Fraternities," script by Don Reilly, art by George Woodbridge; Examples of people stretching the truth. "What Do You Do For a Living, Daddy?", script by Don Reilly, art by Wally Wood; Various fathers try to explain their jobs to their children. "The Guns of Minestrone," script by Larry Siegel, art by Mort Drucker; Parody of the film "The Guns of Navarone." Parody of milk print ads, script and art by Kelly Freas. 52 pgs., B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Fall 1989. Mad Shorts. Cover by Irving Schild and Bob Clarke. Stories and art by Don Martin, Al Jaffee, Stan Hart, Dick DeBartolo, Gary Alexander, Dennis Snee, Max Brandel, George Gipe, E. Nelson Bridwell, Semi, Harry Purvis, Mike Snider, Tom Koch, Harry North, Esq., Bob Clarke, Paul Peter Porges, Frank Jacobs, John Ficarra, Paul Coker, Jr., Mort Drucker, George Woodbridge, Norman Mingo, Joe Orlando, Irving Schild, Angelo Torres, Don (Duck) Edwing, Antonio Prohias, Dave Berg, Jack Davis and Sergio Aragones. The Mad Super Special reprinted movie spoofs and classic material from the magazine, often accompanied by original stories and attached bonuses in the form of posters, stickers, recordings and comics. A collection of one-page Mad features pointing out the foibles of the day. A spoof of the classic film An Officer and a Gentleman, featuring art by Mort Drucker. Mad's takedowns of Shakespeare and sportscasters, featuring art by Jack Davis. Classic Lighter Side strips by Dave Berg, Marginals by Sergio Aragones, Spy vs. Spy, and Don Martin cartoons. Fold-In; An Officer Ain't No Gentleman; Mother Goose Around the World; The Lighter Side of...; Little Known and Rarely Diagnosed Mad Ailments Contracted at Fast Food Restaurants; Famous Quotations and How the People Back Then Reacted to Them; Don Martin's Atomic Holocaust Survival Manual; Merchandising We're Almost Sure to See...and Hate!; Pollution Alert; Interpreting the News - What They Say... What It Means..; How to Read an Airline Menu; Mad's Aptitude Test Number One - Will You Make a Good Doctor?; Spy vs. Spy; The Prophet; The Mad Word Puzzle; In a Las Vegas Hotel Lobby; A Modern Fairy Tale; The Nice New Uncontroversial National Enquirer; Progress; A Mad Treasury of Shakespeare's Lesser Known Quotations; Mad's First and Probably Last Reader Survey; The Historic Landmark; Mad Salutes the Output of American Industry; Publishers Closeout Sale; Bluff that Mugger!; Mad Medals to be Presented to Deserving Students; A Desert Island Game Plan; This Is a Test! - of the Emergency Publishing System; The Werewolf; Your Mad Horoscope; The Small Businessman; Mad's Late Show Cliche Movie Script: The War Movie; The Cube and I; In-Case-Of-Emergency Cards for Special People; Help Wanted Ads We Never Get To See; Mad's Talking Stamps; The Mad Application for Membership in The Moral Majority; Modern Art; The Problem; Mad Warranty; Talking Cars of the Future; The Verdiccch; The U.S. Video Game Olympic Team; Mad's Multiple Choice TV Scene Test; One Fine Medieval Morning at Home; If Certain Celebrities Married...What Would Their Children Be Like?; Amending the Rule Books to Cover Sportscasters; One Scary Night While Chasing a Monster; Give Us A Break; Fold-In; Fortune Hunters Find Atomic Waste. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

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Last 12-cent issue. Cover pencils by Dan DeCarlo. "Fran the Fan Meets the Madhouse Ma-ads," pencils by Dan DeCarlo; Fran the Fan schemes to get the autographs of each member of the Mad House Ma-ads. Archie Annual ad. "Sassy Session," pencils by Stan Goldberg; A band is continually dissatisfied with the size of an echo chamber. "Brain Pain," pencils by Stan Goldberg; Professor Transistor's computer is sensitive to bad breath. "Sock It To 'Em!", pencils by Stan Goldberg; Zippy and the Zappers rehearse for long periods of time. "Bogey the Yogy," pencils by Stan Goldberg; A yogi charms a gas pump into giving him gas. "Karate Man Blues," pencils by Stan Goldberg; A karate man uses his karate chop to kill a fly and winds up breaking the table. "Break Ache," pencils by Gus Lemoine; The Tumbling Weeds go broke because the cost of breaking their instruments at each show exceeded the money they made. "The Happy Hippy," pencils by Stan Goldberg; Lippy opens a stand to take care of people's hang-ups--by selling them hangers. Plus various other stories. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.