Madhouse Comics (1974) comic books 1976-1978

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Cover pencils by Stan Goldberg. "Denny the Drifter," art by Samm Schwartz; A time-traveller uses modern technology to scale Zadar Mountain and receive a 200-pound pearl as a reward. Hostess snack cakes ad with Archie. "Master Disaster," art by Joe Edwards; Disaster movie star Robert Pinkford discusses his latest disaster movie. "You Know You're a Monster If," script by George Gladir, art by Dan DeCarlo; Gags about how you can learn whether you're a monster. "Mad House Sport Oddities," art by Joe Edwards; A Ripley's Believe It or Not style look at sports. "Sports in Transylvania," art by Samm Schwartz. "The Discovery of Water," art by Samm Schwartz; Professor Transistor tells about the discovery of water by a man named Dodo, who had water on the brain. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover pencils by Stan Goldberg. "Jinx Malloy," art by Joe Edwards; The San Diego Creampuffs hire Jinx to bring bad luck to the opposing teams; The plan works initially, but backfires when the manager gets cocky and shakes Jinx's hand before the World Series, causing an earthquake and dugout collapse that injures the entire team. Josie and the Cup Cakes Hostess ad, pencils by Dan DeCarlo. "Marilyn's Marauders," art by Joe Edwards; Turned away from the Minutemen, Marilyn forms a group of women to help fight the British in comedic ways. "Next Year's TV Police Shows," art by Joe Edwards; A look at next year's police shows, including Police Canine Corps, Police Clock, and Police File. "Hark Shark!", art by Joe Edwards; A shark talks about the perils of being a shark. "A Chip off the Old Block," art by Joe Edwards; Blue Flash Jr. gets his superhero diploma from his retired father, but finds it hard to fight crime in the modern world. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.30.

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Cover pencils by Stan Goldberg. "The Yechh Zone," script by George Gladir, art by Samm Schwartz; Dexter becomes a terrific Frisbee player when a trash collector mixes up his trash picker with a witches' wand and pokes Dexter's Frisbee. "You Know You're a Super Hero If," pencils by Dan DeCarlo; Three one-panel gags about how to tell if you're a superhero. "Jungle Jangle," art by Joe Edwards; A feminist and women's lib leader answers Zartan's classified ad for a mate. "Skateboards You May Not Have Seen," art by Joe Edwards. "Monsters in the News," art by Samm Schwartz. "Invisible Teen-ager," art by Joe Edwards; While making a super sundae concoction, Roger Winterbottom discovers the secret to invisibility and finds it's not all it's cracked up to be. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.30.

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First 35-cent cover price. "Drippy Trip"; The Professor takes his nephew to the future, where they discover they prefer their own time period. Fake travel stickers for Congo, Holland, Baghdad and Transylvania. "Queen Kanga"; Two giant apes (ala King Kong) decide to help humanity instead of terrorizing them. Lite'ems ad with Josie and The Pussycats. "Misleading Names of TV Programs"; Examples of literal meanings of several TV show names. "Good News and Bad News"; Examples of how the same event can be both good news and bad news. "Skateboarding Around The World!" "You Know You're A Witch"; Variations on signs you may be a witch. "Woman's Lib Visits Fairytale Land"; Georgie Porgie takes a look at fairy tales revised for women's lib sensitivities...and finds improvement for his tale. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.30.

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Cover pencils by Stan Goldberg. "The Boy Who Was Different," script by Frank Doyle, art by Samm Schwartz; No one can quite put their finger on exactly how Joey (a cyclops) is different from everyone else. Hostess snack cakes ad with Josie. "Transistor Mister," script by George Gladir; An inventor offers to provide bionic policemen to an understaffed police force, but he turns out to be a robber, whose creations won't stop him. Mad House Quizzles; five riddles. "Monsters in the News"; Description of life with various monsters in Transylvania. "A Madhouse Look at Bugs," script and art by Dexter Taylor; Insect life is just like ours. "Transylvania Triumph," script by George Gladir, art by Chic Stone; The vampire Dracks are in dire financial straits until their nephew Bogar comes back from school in America with an idea to turn their castle into a tourist attraction. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover pencils by Stan Goldberg. "Down We Go" Hostess snack cakes ad with Josie. "It's on the House!"; Retelling of the story of Hansel and Gretel. "Fairy Tales According to Women's Lib"; Two fairy tales and a nursery rhyme retold with a "feminist" twist. "The Unexplainable," pencils by Stan Goldberg, inks by Jon D'Agostino; The bionic people of the year 4072 are baffled when two young humans appear (a "male" and a "female"), so they decide to exile them to a remote island where they can't do any harm. The humans appear to be perfectly happy in their new Garden of Eden. "Wasted Horoscopes," art by Samm Schwartz; Several examples of people to whom the advice of some horoscopes is of no use whatever. "You Know You're in Outer Space if...", art by Samm Schwartz; eight gag cartoons. Sabrina's Witch Name word puzzle by Joe Edwards. Dear Aunt Gabby humorous advice column by Eda Edwards, art by Joe Edwards. "Come Clean"; The Professor invents a time machine that only functions as a clock; When it explodes, the Professor's vacuum robot runs wild instead of cleaning up the mess. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover pencils by Stan Goldberg. "Man's Pest Friend," script and pencils by Dick Malmgren, inks by Rudy Lapick; Egad wants a girlfriend, so Doctor Fink-Stein brings a wooden mannequin to life for him. "Misleading TV Program Titles," art by Samm Schwartz; What TV shows would be like if you interpreted their titles literally. "Cindy-Rella"; A parody of Cinderella set in contemporary days. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.35.