Mad #171 December 1974

• Cover Artist: Norman Mingo
• Cover Idea: Nick Meglin

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• A Mind-Blowing Incident (Sergio Aragones)
• Contents Page
• Letters
• Ads for Alfred E. Neuman portraits, The Invisible Mad Paperback, The Completely Mad Don Martin Big Book,
  Subscriptions (written by Sergio Aragones / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The Zing (movie satire)
  (written by Arnie Kogen / Mort Drucker art)
• Alfred's Poor Almanac
  (written by Frank Jacobs / John Putnam art)
• The Mad Crisis Primer
  (written by Stan Hart / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• One Morning in Surgery (Don Martin)
• We're Losing Our War Against Computers
  (written by Tom Koch / Bob Clarke art)
• The Lighter Side of Dieting (Dave Berg)
• One Day in a Run-Down Shack (Don Martin)
• A Mad Look at Fairy Tales (Sergio Aragones)
• Poor Richard's Almanac
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Jack Rickard art)
  (Quotes from The White House Transcripts of
  President Richard Nixon's Recorded Conversations)
• Mad's Sure-Fire Cliche Killers
  (written by Stan Hart / Jack Davis art)
• Spy vs. Spy (Antonio Prohias)
• Bible Rave Magazine
  (written by Frank Jacobs / George Woodbridge art)
• You Have Reached a State of Apathy When...
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Jack Rickard art)
• One Evening at the Stamp Club Meeting (Don Martin)
• The Rookers (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art)
• Fold-In -- What looks like the surest, fastest
  transportation to Washington this year? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- Morality...Then and Now
  (idea by Max Brandel / Paul Coker, Jr. art)