Tales Calculated To Drive You
Mad #5 -- Fall 1998 Special

• Cover Artist: Jack Davis
  (image from The Countynental! in Mad #14)

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• Subscription Ad (Will Elder art from Mad #13)
• The Incomplete History of MAD Comics - Part 5
  (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Mad #13 -- July 1954
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Prince Violent! (Wally Wood art)
  • Book! Movie! (Jack Davis art)
  • Essay in Greek
  • Baby Quips! (photos with captions)
  • Robinson Crusoe! (Will Elder art)
  • The Dandelion Caper (Harvey Kurtzman art)
    (from Mad #3)
• Mad #14 -- August 1954
  • Cover Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Manduck The Magician (Will Elder art)
  • Movie... Ads! (Wally Wood art)
  • Essay in Hungarian
  • The Countynental! (Jack Davis art)
  • Plastic Sam! (Russ Heath art)
• The Incomplete History of MAD Comics - Part 5
  (continued) (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Mad #15 -- September 1954
  • Cover Artist: Sir John Tenniel
  • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman / Lewis Carroll
  • Gasoline Valley! (Will Elder art)
  • Pot-Shot Pete (Harvey Kurtzman)
  • Wild 1 (correction) Wild 1/2 (Wally Wood art)
  • Captain TVideo! (Jack Davis art)
• Ad for fully-poseable Alfred E. Neuman and Spy vs Spy action figures

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• Entire issues written by Harvey Kurtzman except
  The Dandelion Caper written by Jerry DeFuccio
• Color by Marie Severin