Tales Calculated To Drive You
Mad #1 -- Summer 1997 Special

• Cover Artist: Harvey Kurtzman (image from Mad #24)

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• Subscription Ad - Another Satisfied Mad Reader!
  (Basil Wolverton art from "Mad Reader!" in #11)
• The Incomplete History of MAD Comics - Part 1
  (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Mad #1 -- Oct. - Nov. 1952
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Hoohah! (Jack Davis art)
  • Blobs! (Wally Wood art)
  • Crow Vadis? (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Ganefs! (Will Elder art)
  • Varmint! (John Severin art)
• The EC "Artist of the Issue" - Harvey Kurtzman
  (written by Al Feldstein from Two-Fisted Tales #28)
• Mad #2 -- Dec. 1952 - Jan. 1953
  • Cover Artist: Jack Davis
  • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Hex! (Jack Davis art)
  • Melvin! (John Severin art)
  • Calling Cosmo McMoon! (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Gookum! (Wally Wood art)
  • Mole! (Will Elder art and idea)
• The Incomplete History of MAD Comics - Part 1
  (continued) (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Mad #3 -- Jan. - Feb. 1953
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Dragged Net! (Will Elder art)
  • Sheik of Araby! (John Severin art)
  • V-Vampires! (Wally Wood art)
  • Lone Stranger! (Jack Davis art)
• The "Publisher of the Issue" (from #5)
  William M. Gaines (Alias Melvin) (Al Feldstein art)
  (written by Al Feldstein and William M. Gaines)

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• Entire issues written by Harvey Kurtzman except
  Crow Vadis? and Calling Cosmo McMoon!
  written by Jerry DeFuccio
• Color by Marie Severin