Mad Special #72 Fall 1990

(Our Creature Presentation)

• Cover Artist: Basil Wolverton
• Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
• colorized image from Mad Reader! story from #11
• altered magazine shows covers from #249 and #180
  

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• On the spine: Alfred's head and MAD logo appear when spines of Special Issues #70, #71, #72, and #73 are aligned
• Ad for Subscriptions
• Contents Page
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Splash-Dance (movie satire)
  (written by Arnie Kogen / Mort Drucker art)
• What It Will Be Like When Every Device "Talks"
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• We Won't Miss Them...Or Will We?!? (Paul Peter Porges)
• Spy vs. Spy - pulley birdhouse clippers (Antonio Prohias)
• Mad's List of Runners-Up for "The Three Biggest Lies in America" (written by John Ficarra / Harry North, Esq. art)
• Mad's X-Rated Celebrity Trivia Quiz
  (written by Paul Laikin / Mort Drucker art)
• Ain't It Great!!
  (written by Tom Koch / George Woodbridge art)
• How Many Mistakes Can You Find in This Picture of a Fast
  Food Restaurant? (written by Chris Hart / Jack Davis art)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• Introduction page to Creature Presentation section
  features fragments of art from Harry North, Esq.,
  Mort Drucker, Sergio Aragones, Paul Peter Porges.
• Grimlins (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Mort Drucker art)
• Mad Reader!
  (written by Harvey Kurtzman / Basil Wolverton art)
• Horrifying Cliches
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• King Korn (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Harry North, Esq. art)
• Fold-In -- What is always the movie
  industry's ghastliest production? (Al Jaffee)
• A Mad Look at Ants (Bill Johnson)
• Jaw'd (movie satire)
  (written by Larry Siegel / Mort Drucker art)