MAD comic books issue 125

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Photo cover by Irving Schild. "201 Minutes of A Space Idiocy," script by Dick DeBartolo, art by Mort Drucker; Parody of the film "2001: A Space Odessey"; two astronauts are sent to investigate a monolith found on the moon. "Don Martin on the Golf Course," script and art by Don Martin. Cartoons in the margins by Sergio Aragones. "A Portfolio of Mad Portraits," script and art by Max Brandel; featuring John Lindsey; Liberace; Hugh Hefner; Ronald Reagan; Charles DeGaulle; Gamel Abdul Nasser; Eugene McCarthy; Pablo Picasso; Timothy Leary; J. Edgar Hoover; Twiggy; and Richard Nixon. "Spy Vs. Spy" by Antonio Prohias. "The Lighter Side of Teenage Dances," script and art by Dave Berg. "A Mad Look at Sex Education in the Schools," script and art by Jack Kent. "Mad's Book Publisher of the Year," script by Stan Hart, art by Jack Rickard; Mad interviews a shady book publisher. "The Mad Ice Hockey Primer," script by Larry Siegel, art by Jack Davis. "The Mad Poetry Round Robin," script by Frank Jacobs, art by George Woodbridge; Examples of famous poems rewritten in the styles of different famous poets. "If Comic Characters Were Psychoanalyzed," script by Frank Jacobs, art by Bob Clarke. "What Is the One Thing Protest Marches Have Greatly Improved" Mad Fold-In by Al Jaffee. 52 pgs., B&W. Cover price $0.35.

December 1997. Big Bad Mad. Cover by Will Elder and Harvey Kurtzman. Stories and art by Don Martin, Al Jaffee, Dick DeBartolo, Edie Smith, Darren Johnson, Mike Snider, Charlie Kadau, Joe Raiola, Stan Hart, John Prete, Frank Jacobs, Don (Duck) Edwing, Bob Clarke, Paul Peter Porges, Tom Koch, Russ Cooper, John Caldwell, James Warhola, Kathi Maloney, Sam Viviano, John Pound, Tom Bunk, Harry North, Esq., Paul Coker, Jr., Angelo Torres, Irving Schild, Mort Drucker, George Woodbridge, Antonio Prohias, Dave Berg, Jack Davis and Sergio Aragones. The Mad Super Special reprinted movie spoofs and classic material from the magazine. A rare latter-day painted cover by founding MAD artists Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Reprints from the Mad paperback Al Jaffee Spews Out More Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. Mad's parodies of the first two Aliens films, featuring art by Mort Drucker and Jack Davis. Classic Lighter Side strips by Dave Berg, Marginals by Sergio Aragones, and Spy vs. Spy. Alias; Spy vs. Spy; As Seen By...; Basic Underlying Premises of Various Products, Trends and Ideas; You've Been Looking for Waldo - Now Where's...?; Mad's Merchandiser of the Year; A Mad Look at Tools; Mad's Consumer Believe It or Nuts; The Lighter Side of...; Mad: The Lost Pages: Mad's Al Jaffee Spews Out More Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions; Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself National Scandal Newspaper Story; The Controversial Convict's Comeuppance; Alienators; Salesmen's Claims and Come-Ons That Should Set You Running; Still More Runners-Up to "The Three Biggest Lies in America"; A Mad Look at How Far We've Come; The Perplexing Penitentiary Ploy; The New Benchmarks, Records and Barriers That Mankind is Rapidly Approaching - Part II; The Hymn of the Battered Republic; Mad Product Registration Form; Fold-In; Johnnie Warper. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.99.

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Cover pencils by Stan Goldberg. Hostess snack cakes ad with Archie. "The Super Snooper," script and pencils by Dick Malmgren, inks by Jon D'Agostino; Shylock Homes and his partner Whatson search for Lady Van Plushlife's missing poodle Fifi. "The Mad House Gift Catalog"; Various humorous gift ideas are presented. "Olympic Shtick," script by George Gladir, pencils by Joe Edwards, inks by Jon D'Agostino; Captain Sprocket competes in the Olympics, where he is so athletically gifted that he is disqualified from or loses every event. "Mad House Sport Oddities"; Various fictional athlete biographies. "Getting the Jump on the Game," art by Dick Malmgren; In a pantomime story, a racquetball player gets so good at returning high shots that he loses a real game on a low shot. "It's Enough to Make You Cry!!!", script and pencils by Dick Malmgren, inks by Jon D'Agostino; Various vignettes of a man's unfortunate attempts at dating a girl. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.50.