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. |