Tales Calculated To Drive You
Mad #6 -- Spring 1999 Special

• Cover Artist: Will Elder
  (image from Shermlock Shomes in
  The Hound of the Basketballs! in Mad #16)

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• Subscription Ad (Jack Davis art from Mad #9)
• The Incomplete History of MAD Comics - Part 6
  (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Mad #16 -- October 1954
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Shermlock Shomes in
    The Hound of the Basketballs! (Will Elder art)
  • Newspapers! (Jack Davis art)
  • Article in Ancient Egyptian
  • Restaurant! (Will Elder art)
  • Wreck of the Hesperus (Wally Wood art)
  • Essay in Chinese (from Mad #15)
• Mad #17 -- November 1954
  • Cover Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Bringing Back Father!
    (Will Elder and Bernie Krigstein art)
  • What's My Shine! (Jack Davis art)
    (a better way to broadcast the McCarthy hearings)
  • Essay from a small country
  • Meet Miss Potgold
    (Will Elder and Basil Wolverton art)
  • Similar "Mad" -type comic book titles
    (Wally Wood art)
  • Julius Caesar! (Wally Wood art)
• The Incomplete History of MAD Comics - Part 6
  (continued) (written by Frank Jacobs)
• Mad #18 -- December 1954
  • Cover Artist and Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
  • Alice in Wonderland! (Jack Davis art)
  • Rookie Gladiator (Harvey Kurtzman art)
    (from Mad #3)
  • Howdy Dooit! (Will Elder art)
  • How Our Opinions Sound
  • Pot-Shot Pete (Harvey Kurtzman)
  • Stalag 18! (Wally Wood art)
• Ad for Mad About the Movies

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• Entire issues written by Harvey Kurtzman except
  Rookie Gladiator written by Jerry DeFuccio and the text of
  Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and where some liberties were taken with
  Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel
• Color by Marie Severin