Mad #286 April 1989

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams
• Cover Writer: Sergio Aragones

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• Ad for Subscriptions featuring Mad Buttons Bonus
• Contents Page
• Ad for Mad Jackpot Paperback
• Letters (Mort Drucker art for new Anthrax rock band album)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Thirty-Suffering (TV satire)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Mort Drucker art)
• Hand-Me-Down (Sergio Aragones)
• If Bad Taste Took a Holiday
  (written by Mike Snider / Al Jaffee art)
• Spy vs. Spy (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art)
• Really Appropriate Sponsors for Rock Tours
  (written by Charlie Kadau)
• The Name Game of the Rich and Famous
  (written by John Prete / Mort Drucker art)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• The Moron Downer Jr. Show (TV satire)
  (written by Larry Siegel / Jack Davis art)
• Pot Luck (Sergio Aragones)
• Guys You're Likely to Meet Before Mr. "Right"
  (written by Mike Snider / Alyse Newman art)
• When TV Commercials Make Full Use of The Beatles Songs
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Harry North, Esq. art)
• It's Safe to go to the Bathroom When... (Paul Peter Porges)
• Spy vs. Spy (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art)
• More You'd Be Rich if You Had a Nickel...
  (written by Charlie Kadau / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• 21 Junkheap (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art)
• Don (Duck) Edwing Contemplates Suicide
• Personal Ads That Remind Us of Somebody We Know or
  Nah, It Couldn't Be Them! (written by Lou Silverstone)
• Fold-In -- What is the latest, most
  terrible form of radio activity? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- A Mad Fish Story
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Richard Williams art)