Mad #43 December 1958

• Cover Artist: Kelly Freas
• Cover Writer: Joe Orlando
• Mad Logo: Harvey Kurtzman

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• American Expense Account Cheques (ad parody)
  (Kelly Freas art)
• Contents Page
• Mad's MVTBA (Most Valuable Television Baseball Actors) Awards (written by Larry Siegel / George Woodbridge art)
• Proverbs Revisited **various obscure places around magazine
• Letters
• Ads for "What, Me Worry" Kid portrait, The Brothers Mad,
  Mad For Keeps, Gift Subscriptions
• The End of Comics (written by Tom Koch / Wally Wood art)
• Future Magazine Mergers
  (written by Tom Koch / Bob Clarke art)
• Scenes We'd Like to See - The Frogmen (Joe Orlando)
• The Electricians (Don Martin)
• If Hollywood Directors Staged Advertising Photos
  (Wally Wood art)
• Pushcarts (Dave Berg)
• Health Chairs (written by Al Jaffee / Bob Clarke art)
• The Mad Halloween Trick-Or-Treatment
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Mort Drucker art)
• The Mad Treasury of Unknown Poetry
  (written by Tom Koch / Joe Orlando art)
• Special Lamps for Reading Magazines (Bob Clarke art)
• Misleading Headlines (written by Frank Jacobs)
• The New Baby (written by Danny Kaye and Milton Schafer)
  (Wally Wood art)
• Coming Musicals (Bob Clarke art)
  (written by Frank Jacobs and Larry Siegel)
• The End of a Perfect Day (Don Martin)
• Bob & Ray -- Music Report
  (written by Tom Koch / Mort Drucker art)
• Payhouse 90 Production Schedule (written by Albert Meglin)
• The Smithshop (written by Al Jaffee / Bob Clarke art)
• Woodlore (written by Al Jaffee / George Woodbridge art)
• The Bathtub Admiral (Wally Wood art)
  (written by Danny Kaye and Milton Schafer)
• Down Lovers' Lane (Don Martin)
• Ad - You'll "go far" in a Mad T-Shirt! - $1.25
  (photo by Larry Maleman)
• Back Cover -- Crust Gum Paste (Kelly Freas art)