In Honor of Mad's 67th Birthday
October/November 2019

1	Dave Berg before The Lighter Side	Planned Obsolescence, Push Carts, Pizza Pie, Modern Furniture, Big Cars
2	Al Jaffee's Fold-In
3	Anti-Smoking articles and ads
4	Basil Wolverton people
5	Consistent increase in value of the 23 comics and many of the early magazines
6	Presidential humor
7	Sergio Aragones' marginals and A Mad Look At...
8	Weird Words	axolotl, poiuyt, furshlugginer, moxie, ganef, potrzebie, etc.
9	Don Martin
10	Early guest articles	Sid Caesar, Bob & Ray, Ernie Kovacs,Orson Bean, Jean Shepherd, Henry Morgan, Eddie Lawrence, Tom Lehrer, Wally Cox, Andy Griffith
11	Antonio Prohias' Spy Vs. Spy
12	Caricatures of famous people by the master - Mort Drucker
13	Dumb responses to stupid letters
14	If you're just after regular issues, they don't take up much space (click image).
15	What will they do with Alfred next?
16	Songs based on popular tunes
17	That middle-finger cover
18	Lack of Advertising -well, at least before March 2001
19	They look so impressive all bagged and boxed in an orderly fashion (click image).
20	You can impress or sicken your friends with your Mad knowledge
21	Ad parodies
22	TV and Movie parodies (often better than the real movie)
23	Witty Writers	Frank Jacobs, Larry Siegel, Lou Silverstone, Stan Hart, Paul Peter Porges, Tom Koch, Dick DeBartolo, some of the new guys
24	That whole Bill Gaines mystique
25	Mad "Do-It-Yourself" articles
26	Bill Elder -wild, madcap humor straight out of a mental institution
27	Before the intertubes and Ebay, scary old book stores to rummage through looking for that one last issue to complete the collection.
28	Wally Wood
29	Mole
30	Old people remember it. You can share it with your granny.
31	Sight gag covers
32	The Neuman smile
33	Creative Photo Editing from Arnoldo Franchioni
34	Watching the magazine change over the years. As the times changed, so did Mad.	content, structure, layout, design
35	Bizzaro gross humor from Tom Bunk
36	That old, dry-rot smell of your not-so-well-maintained issues adding an air of authenticity to your entire collection.
37	J. Fred Muggs
38	The fun they had with Nixon
39	The fun they had with Vietnam
40	Self deprecating humor - they knew they were trash before you did
41	Amazing inventions
42	Word play
43	Poetry
44	Harvey Kurtzman comic daze
45	Hippies
46	Cultural snapshot - What were we interested in when?
47	The Mad Nasty File from the 80's
48	Hawks and Doves
49	Norman Mingo and Kelly Freas covers
50	Biting social commentary - putting into words what we already know about ourselves	You Know You're Really... When...
51	Fake Magazines and Magazine Parodies
52	Scenes We'd Like To See
53	Ads for Mad Stuff like straightjackets, cufflinks, Alfred E. Neuman busts, books, calendars, watches, T-shirts
54	Believe It or Nuts!
55	Fake Catalogues
56	Annual 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things
57	The Fundalini Pages
58	Topical, controversial, consistently thought-provoking Max Brandel pieces
59	Anything by Teresa Burns Parkhurst
60	It's been around for 66 years! What more could there be?!
61	George Woodbridge's amazing attention to historic detail
62	Paperback Books!
63	John Caldwell
64	OK... Dave Berg during The Lighter Side...
65	Horrifying Clichés
66	Seeing what transpires with the Burbank Mad.
67	Realizing, after the expected end of most new MAD content and it's departure from the public newsstand, the ultimate change to the nature of MAD as we know it may be upon us... I'll keep internetting it as long as there's interest, but I've gotta tell you: the powers that be are not making it easy.