Mad #291 December 1989

• Cover Artist: Sam Viviano

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• Ad for Subscriptions featuring Mad Buttons Bonus
• Contents Page
• Letters (photos of Jack Nicholson and Yakov Smirnoff with #289)
• Ad for Mad's All New "Snappy Answers
  to Stupid Questions" by Al Jaffee Paperback
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The Blunder Years (TV satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Sam Viviano art)
• The Lusty Ledge Legend (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Compu-Doc Self-Service Medical Terminal (Paul Coker, Jr. art)
  (written by Paul Coker, Jr. and Floyd Kemske)
• More Items from Mad's Celebrity Supermarket
  (written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Bob Clarke art)
• Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art)
• Why You Are Sure to Win the Next Magazine Publishers' Sweepstakes (written by Tom Koch / John Caldwell art)
• Mad's Political Image Maker of the Year
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Angelo Torres art)
• The Feathered Feeding Frenzy (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Baseball at the Bat
  (based on the Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / James Warhola art)
• Fleeting "Stars" of the Six O'Clock Local News
  (Paul Peter Porges)
• No Hoax Barred (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Jack Davis art)
• The Jarring Jungle Joyride (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Mad's Big Ego Busters (written by Stan Hart / Al Jaffee art)
• How Newspapers Write Misleading Headlines to
  Jazz Up Otherwise Dull Stories (written by Paul Laikin)
• A Mad Look at Ghosts (Sergio Aragones)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• Inbanana Jones and His Last Crude Days (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art)
• When it comes to protecting us, where is
  our government's weakest link? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- Lesser-Known Ninja Turtles
  (written by Mike Snider / Greg Theakston art)