Tales Calculated To Drive You
Mad #2 -- Winter 1997 Special

• Cover Artist: Will Elder (image from Ping Pong! in Mad #6)

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• No Mad / Subscription Ad (Jack Davis art from Mad #6)
• The Incomplete History of MAD Comics - Part 2
  (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Mad #4 -- April - May 1953
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Superduperman! (Wally Wood art)
  • Flob was a Slob! (Jack Davis art)
  • Let's Deplore Your Mind (Harvey Kurtzman art)
  • Robin Hood! (John Severin art)
  • Shadow! (Will Elder art)
  • The Parole (Harvey Kurtzman art)
• Mad #5 -- June - July 1953
  • Cover Artist: Will Elder
  • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Outer Sanctum! (Will Elder art)
  • Black and Blue Hawks! (Wally Wood art)
  • Exam (John Severin art)
  • Miltie of the Mounties! (John Severin art)
  • Kane Keen! - Private Eye (Jack Davis art)
• The Incomplete History of MAD Comics - Part 2
  (continued) (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Mad #6 -- Aug. - Sept. 1953
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Teddy and the Pirates! (Wally Wood art)
  • Melvin of the Apes! (John Severin art)
  • Casey at the Bat! (Jack Davis art)
  • Ping Pong! (Will Elder art)
• Ad for tons of Mad books

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• Entire issues written by Harvey Kurtzman except
  Let's Deplore Your Mind, The Parole, and Exam
  written by Jerry DeFuccio
  and the text of Casey at the Bat! by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
• Color by Marie Severin