Mad #278 April 1988

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams
• Cover Writer: Frank Jacobs
• Cover Idea: Billy Doherty

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• Ad for Subscriptions featuring Mort Drucker's Mad Show-Stoppers and Mad's Maddest Writer Dick DeBartolo Presents Here's Mad in Your Eye Big Book Bonuses
• Contents Page
• Ad for The Spare Mad Paperback
• Letters (photo of Robert DeNiro and son Raphael visiting
  Nick Meglin, John Ficarra, Leonard Brenner, Sara Fowler, Charlie Kadau) (photo of cast of Head of the Class with
  ten Mad #275s) (60 Minutes interview reactions)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Dorky Dancing (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Mort Drucker art)
• The Terrifying Terminal Tragedy (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Still More Celebrity Silhouettes
  (written by Rurik Tyler / Bob Clarke art)
• Quick Recoveries for Embarrassing Situations (Al Jaffee)
• A Mad Look at School (Sergio Aragones)
• The Stupefying Suicide Situation (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• The Mad Nasty File - (Vol Two)
  (written by Tom Koch / Gerry Gersten art)
• Dangerous Sports For the Very Daring and the Super Stupid
  (Paul Peter Porges)
• Secret Supermarket Rules
  (written by Charlie Kadau / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• The Official Mad Pardon of Ronald Reagan
  (written by Al Jaffee / Jack Davis art)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• The Disastrous Desert Drama (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Celebrity Reading Lists
  (written by Tom Koch / Sam Viviano art)
• Mad's Instant Guide to Zodiac Types
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Harry North, Esq. art)
• Spy vs. Spy (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art)
• Stinkout (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art)
• Disclaimers for TV Commercials That Don't Have Disclaimers
  (written by Frank Jacobs / George Woodbridge art)
• The Macabre Morticians' Melodrama (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Fold-In -- What is fast becoming the number one
  cause of drinking among today's youth? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- Sports Titillated Magazine (Irving Schild photo)