Mad #503 May 2010

• Cover Artist: Mark Fredrickson

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• Contents Page
• Letters (photo of Dick DeBartolo with #103 and #502 -
  an amazing 400-issue streak of contributions since June 1966!)
  (Frank Jacobs receives the Bill Finger Award for Excellence
  in Comic Book Writing at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con)
  (Sergio Aragones illustrates a Commemorative
  Artist t-shirt for Free Comic Book Day)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The Fundalini Pages
  • The Silly Six - Overlooked Shocking Revelations
    from the #1 Political Best Seller Game Change
    (written by Jeff Kruse / Sam Sisco art)

• The Kitchen Sink - Medical Shows Coming to TLC (Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer art)
• Twisted Toaster Tales (Episode 1) (Nate Fakes)
• Fundalini Rates the Most Effective Car Insurance Spokesperson
• Spotted at the Multiplex - Avatar 2: Jersey Shore
• Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds - Sarah Palin (Sam Viviano art)
• Signs of a Growing Gun Problem in the NBA
• Reasons Cited by Sportswriters for Not Voting Mark McGwire into Baseball's Hall of Fame
  (Tom Richmond art)
• When the Going Gets Duff (J. C. Duffy)
• 6 Degrees of Separation Between Anyone and Anything - Can You Link Hula Dancing to Glenn Beck?
  (Rick Tulka art)
• Twisted Toaster Tales (Episode 2) (Nate Fakes)
• Relive The Stupidity - 3 of Your Favorite Dumb News Stories from Last Year!
  Now on DVD and Blu-ray
  • 30,000 - Special Troop Surge Edition
  • Made Up (Tom Richmond art)
  • White House Crashers
• Graphic Novel Review - Garfield: His Most Over-Rendered Book
  (written by Desmond Devlin / Richard Williams art)
• Tiger Cheat (magazine parody)
• Pros and Cons of the Kindle (written by Barry Liebmann)
• Fundalini Gives Leno Supporters Their Own Poster
• Product Acronyms You Never Knew Existed (written by Darren Johnson / Tom Bunk art)
• Twisted Toaster Tales (Episode 3) (Nate Fakes)
• Toyota - Moving Forward... and Unable to Stop (ad parody)
• Ad for Mad About Super Heroes - Volume 2
• The Mad Quarterly Report (Dec 2009 - March 2010) (Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• The Big Bomb Theory (TV satire) (written by Desmond Devlin / Tom Richmond art)
• Ad for tons of Mad merchandise
• The Tiger Woods Mistress Mini-Golf Fun Center (written by Scott Maiko / Ty Templeton art)
• The Darker Side of The Lighter Side (Dave Berg originals / uncredited altered dialogue)
• Ad for Subscriptions (72nd message from Mad's Jeffrey Lozenge)
• The Amish Space Heater (ad parody) (written by Scott Maiko / Irving Schild photos)
• Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
• The Rich Rewards of a Full-Time Career as a Convenience Store Clerk (John Caldwell)
• A Mad Look At Avatar (Sergio Aragones / color by Tom Luth)
• The 9 Reasons You Can't Get a Job (written by Teresa Burns Parkhurst / Kevin Pope art)
• 7 Periods Closer to Death (Ted Rall)
• The 38 Worst Things About Late Night TV! (Hermann Mejia and Ward Sutton art)
  (written by Desmond Devlin, Scott Maiko and Jeff Kruse)
• Mad's Iron Man 2 Outtakes
• Stop the Spread of Germs! Follow These Simple Rules (written by Dick DeBartolo / Gary Hallgren art)
• The Strip Club
  • It Only Hurts When I Laugh (Christopher Baldwin)
  • The Machine That Travels Through Time (Joey Alison Sayers)
  • Bloggers Through Time (Dustin Glick)
  • The Dork Side (Scott Nickel)
  • Help! I can't swim!! (Feggo)
  • Just Below the Surface (Douglas Paszkiewicz)
• The Mad Vault - 1969 (reprinted excerpts from Norman Mingo, Irving Schild, Jack Rickard, Bob Clarke,
  Max Brandel, Frank Ridgeway, Larry Siegel, Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Stan Hart, Chris Hart, Frank Jacobs,
  George Woodbridge, Don (Duck) Edwing, Paul Coker, Jr., Mort Drucker, Don Martin, Sergio Aragones)
• Steal These Tweets! (written by Dave Croatto)
• Fold-In -- What condition definitely won't be covered by the new Obama health plan? (Al Jaffee)