Mad #292 January 1990

• Cover Artist: Sam Viviano

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• Ad for Subscriptions (Kelly Freas art)
• Contents Page
• Letters (photo of Howard Stern reading #290)
  (image of real 25 cent postage stamp by Jack Davis)
• Ad for Soaring Mad and
  Antonio Prohias' Spy vs. Spy - The Updated Files #7 Paperbacks
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Funny to Shrink the Kids (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Mort Drucker art)
• The Mad Guide to New Computer Games
  (written by Matthew T. Smith / Rick Tulka art)
• The Mad Week (written by Charlie Kadau / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Spy vs. Spy (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Bob Clarke art)
• Mad's Home Version of Double Jeopardy!
  (written by John Prete)
• A Mad Look at Musical Instruments (Sergio Aragones)
• One Fine Morning in Miami
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Jack Davis art)
• Six Minutes Looks at Smoking (TV satire)
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Angelo Torres art)
• What's Your Choice? A Mad Magazine Opinion Poll
  (Paul Peter Porges)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• One Typical Afternoon in the Bronx
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Jack Davis art)
• The Great Toon Surplus Sale
  (written by Larry Siegel / Angelo Torres art)
• Big City Signs of the Times
  (written by Stan Hart / George Woodbridge art)
• Don (Duck) Edwing Chills Out Up North
• Mad's Catalogue of Practical Joke Items for the Computer
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Al Jaffee art)
  (idea by Seth Greenberg)
• One Sultry Evening in Cairo
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Jack Davis art)
• Buried With Children (TV satire)
  (written by Dennis Snee / Sam Viviano art)
• Exciting But Meaningless Movie Studio Blurbs
  (written by Russ Cooper)
• Fold-In -- What do we fear will be the Bush
  administration's solution to flag burning? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- Joystick Jabberwacky
  (written by Frank Jacobs / George Woodbridge art)