Mad #289 September 1989

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams

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• Ad for Super Special Winter 1989 - Mad Mania 2 -
  featuring a 50-page portfolio of Al Jaffee's classic junk
• Contents Page
• Ad for Subscriptions featuring Mad Buttons Bonus
• Letters (Dave Berg draws a Lighter Side of Malpractice panel) (Reader Todd Fronauer submits one last entry to go with #287's Specialized Nautilus Machines for Practical Everyday Activities)
• Ad for Mad in the Box Paperback
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Battyman (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Mort Drucker art)
• The Haunting Hunting Hullabaloo (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• A Mad Guide to Social Behavior - How Not to Go from
  Bad to Worse! (written by Chris Hart / Bob Jones art)
• The Rookstone Catalog of Really Useful Tools, Nifty Gadgets,
  Hi-Tech Thingamajigs and Crafty Geegaws (Al Jaffee)
• Spy vs. Spy (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art)
• More New Laws that Congress Should Pass Right Now!
  (written by Tom Koch / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• When Rap Music Spreads Into Everyday Life
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Jack Davis art)
• The Excruciating Escape Extravaganza (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• Video Reviews (written by Stan Hart / Sam Viviano art)
• Selected Highlights from the Bottom-of-the-Barrel
  Sports Cable Network (Paul Peter Porges)
• Murky Brown (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art)
• A Mad Look at Driver's Ed (Sergio Aragones)
• If Different Comedians Told the Same Joke (There's a fly
  in my soup...) (written by Russ Cooper / Mort Drucker art)
• The Silly Solitary Scenario (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Mad Charts (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola)
• Fold-In -- What's the latest in
  exciting summer water sports? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- The FBI's 6 Most Wanted Renegade Clowns
  (written by Dan Birtcher / Greg Theakston art)