Mad #23 May 1955

• Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman

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• Ad for E.C.'s "New Direction" Mags - MD and Psychoanalysis
• Important announcement in the back of the book!
• Gopo Gossum! (Wally Wood art)
• Mad Mumblings
• Scenes We'd Like to See! (Jack Davis art)
• Ripup's Believe it or Don't! (Wally Wood art)
• The Barefoot Nocountessa! (Jack Davis art)
• Mad Reader ad
• Announcement that Mad will change
  from comic book to magazine with issue #24

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• Entire issue written by Harvey Kurtzman