Mad #239 June 1983

• Cover Artist: Jack Rickard
• Cover Writer: Sergio Aragones

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• Ad for Mad Super Special Fall 1983 featuring
  Sex, Love, and other things your parents are against
• Contents Page
• Letters
• Ad for Sergio Aragones Mad Menagerie Paperback,
  Alfred E. Neuman portraits, Subscriptions (Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Simple & Simple (TV satire) (Mort Drucker art)
  (written by Lou Silverstone and Dick DeBartolo)
• One Prehistoric Morning While Inventing (Don Martin)
• Places to Hide the M-X Missiles Where They Will Never
  Be Found (written by Paul Laikin / George Woodbridge art)
• Pages from Celebrities Calendars (written by Larry Siegel)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• This is a Test! - of the Emergency Publishing System
  (written by John Ficarra) (interrupts Don Martin's One Fine Afternoon at the Dentist - was actually reprinted from #230)
• A Mad Look at Big-Time TV (Paul Peter Porges)
• Mad's "Defense Contractor" of the Year
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Al Jaffee art)
• Long Distance Runs of the Future
  (written by Dennis Snee / Jack Rickard art)
• One Medieval Afternoon While Falconing (Don Martin)
• More Parental Non-Sequiturs
  (written by Stan Hart / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Personalized License Plates For Fictional and Historical Characters (written by Frank Jacobs / Bob Clarke art)
• Little-Known and Rarely Diagnosed Mad Ailments
  Contracted at Supermarkets (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Spy vs. Spy (Antonio Prohias)
• The Verdiccch (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Angelo Torres art)
• One Scary Night While Chasing a Monster (Don Martin)
• Fold-In -- Where are public executions sometimes
  performed to entertain an audience? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- You Found Out! (the truth)
  (written by Billy Doherty / Irving Schild photo)