Mad Magazine Contributors
Sam Viviano
Contributions in Order of Appearance
Jack Syracuse is the pseudonym Sam occasionally uses. See a combined list.
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CONTRIBUTION TITLE |
CO-CONTRIBUTORS |
ISSUE / DATE |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- Dallas |
|
223 - Jun 1981 |
| A |
Roger Ebore and Gene Sissy review three films
Ghost-Dusters / Purple Acid Rain / The Karocky Kid |
Arnie Kogen, Angelo Torres
Harry North, Esq. |
253 - Mar 1985 |
| A |
Mike Hammy (TV satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
255 - Jun 1985 |
| A |
If the Miller Lite Beer Gang Ran This Country |
Larry Siegel |
256 - Jul 1985 |
| A |
First Annual Reunion - Guests of The Phil Donahue Show |
Elizabeth White |
257 - Sep 1985 |
| A |
Gigglin's Island (TV rerun satire) |
Larry Siegel |
259 - Dec 1985 |
| A |
The Crummymooners (TV rerun satire) |
Larry Siegel |
260 - Jan 1986 |
| A |
Specialized Cable TV Networks of the Future |
Frank Jacobs, Earle Doud |
261 - Mar 1986 |
| A |
Other Much Needed Rules Named for
the Irksome People Who Inspired Them |
Mike Snider |
265 - Sep 1986 |
| A |
TV Theme Songs |
Frank Jacobs |
266 - Oct 1986 |
| A |
The Andy Grinning Show (TV rerun satire) |
Lou Silverstone |
273 - Sep 1987 |
| A |
Stuff We Didn't Get to See on TV For One Reason or Another |
Mike Snider |
274 - Oct 1987 |
| A |
Mad's Guide to Talk Show Hosts |
Charlie Kadau, Joe Raiola |
275 - Dec 1987 |
| A |
Celebrity Reading Lists |
Tom Koch |
278 - Apr 1988 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- California Raisins |
|
281 - Sep 1988 |
| A |
A Look at Mad's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
Desmond Devlin |
281 - Sep 1988 |
| A |
Alf's Celebrity Cat Cookbook |
John Prete |
282 - Oct 1988 |
| A |
A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a Comedy Club |
Lou Silverstone |
283 - Dec 1988 |
| A |
Play Pictionary With the Mad Artists |
see issue |
284 - Jan 1989 |
| A |
Numbing to America (movie satire) |
Stan Hart |
284 - Jan 1989 |
| A |
Recasting Famous Old Movies With Today's Famous Wrestlers |
John Prete |
285 - Mar 1989 |
| A |
Academy Awards for Movie Audience Members |
Mike Snider |
287 - Jun 1989 |
| A |
Dreary John (TV satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
288 - Jul 1989 |
| A |
Video Reviews |
Stan Hart |
289 - Sep 1989 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- Ghostbusters 2 |
|
290 - Oct 1989 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- Special Mutant Turtle Issue |
|
291 - Dec 1989 |
| A |
The Blunder Years (TV satire) |
Stan Hart |
291 - Dec 1989 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- Mario Bros. smash Neumantendo |
|
292 - Jan 1990 |
| A |
Buried With Children (TV satire) |
Dennis Snee |
292 - Jan 1990 |
| A |
Mad's Video Reviews |
Stan Hart |
293 - Mar 1990 |
| A |
Future Sitcoms That Break Fresh Ground |
Frank Jacobs |
295 - Jun 1990 |
| A |
Mad's Video Reviews |
Stan Hart |
296 - Jul 1990 |
| A |
Teen-Rage Moolah Nitwit Turtles! (movie satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
298 - Oct 1990 |
| A |
The Usual Gang of Mad Artists Takes a Look
at Endangered Species of the Music World |
see issue |
298 - Oct 1990 |
| A |
A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at "The Simpsons" Studio |
Charlie Kadau |
299 - Dec 1990 |
| A |
Wizard of Odds (movie satire) |
Frank Jacobs |
300 - Jan 1991 |
| A |
Home A-Groan (movie satire) |
Stan Hart |
303 - Jun 1991 |
| A |
Mad's Video Reviews |
Stan Hart |
304 - Jul 1991 |
| A |
Simpson Rip-Offs We'll Undoubtedly Be Seeing |
Frank Jacobs |
305 - Sep 1991 |
| A |
The Violence of the Hams (movie satire) |
Frank Jacobs |
305 - Sep 1991 |
| A |
Mad's Create-Your-Own Vanilla Ice Biography |
Charlie Kadau, Joe Raiola |
306 - Oct 1991 |
| A |
Reel vs. Real |
Russ Cooper |
307 - Dec 1991 |
| A |
Mad's Political Remember When...? |
Russ Cooper |
308 - Jan 1992 |
| A |
Mad's Minute-By-Minute Breakdown of Popular TV Shows |
Russ Cooper |
309 - Mar 1992 |
| A |
Video Reviews |
Stan Hart |
310 - Apr 1992 |
| A |
Hook'em (movie satire) |
Stan Hart |
312 - Jul 1992 |
| A |
When Should We Believe...? |
Mike Snider |
315 - Dec 1992 |
| A |
Entertainment Too Light Visits In Livid Color (TV satire) |
A. J. Marley |
317 - Mar 1993 |
| A |
Audition Tapes of Talk Show Hosts Who Never Made It |
Dan Birtcher |
320 - Jul 1993 |
| A |
Batsman: The Anemic Series (TV satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
322 - Oct 1993 |
| A |
Instant Nostalgia
(For the "Not-Yet-Old-Enough-For-Regular-Nostalgia") |
Mike Snider |
324 - Jan 1994 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- Beavis Clinton & Butthead Gore |
Desmond Devlin |
325 - Feb 1994 |
| A |
When the Beavis & Butt-Head Phenomenon Spreads Into Politics |
Desmond Devlin |
325 - Feb 1994 |
| A |
Snow White as Reviewed by Today's Publications |
Frank Jacobs |
325 - Feb 1994 |
| A |
Shocking "Tell-All" Books by TV-Sitcom Characters |
Mort Drucker, Mike Snider
Greg Theakston, Rick Tulka |
325 - Feb 1994 |
| A |
Right Now! |
Mike Snider |
326 - Mar 1994 |
| A |
What Does it Say About Playing by the Rules When... |
Mike Snider |
326 - Mar 1994 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #96 - Spr 1994 |
| A |
Ecch-Men (TV satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
327 - May 1994 |
| A |
Cinema vs. Movies |
Desmond Devlin |
328 - Jun 1994 |
| A |
Mad's International Signs for the World of Rock |
Desmond Devlin |
328 - Jun 1994 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #98 - Sum 1994 |
| A |
Books to Make Children More Politically Aware |
David Shayne |
330 - Sep 1994 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #99 - Fall 1994 |
| A |
The Bill Clinton MTV Song Book -
"What a Plan" sung to the tune of "Whatta Man" |
Frank Jacobs, see issue |
331 - Oct 1994 |
| A |
The Lion's Kin (movie satire) |
Stan Hart |
332 - Dec 1994 |
| A |
margin art below "Gump Fiction" |
|
Mad TV - 1995 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- Comic strip characters |
|
Special #101 - Jan 1995 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #101 - Jan 1995 |
| A |
The 11 Rarest Animation Cells on the Market |
Desmond Devlin |
334 - Mar 1995 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #102 - Mar 1995 |
| A |
Plot Friction (movie satire) |
Arnie Kogen |
335 - May 1995 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- Beavis and Butthead Grow Old |
|
336 - Jun 1995 |
| A |
When Beavis & Butt-Head Grow Old! |
Desmond Devlin |
336 - Jun 1995 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #104 - Jun 1995 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #105 - Jul 1995 |
| A |
Mad's O.J. Pog Schtickers (bonus insert) |
|
Special #105 - Jul 1995 |
| A |
Rock & Roll Closeups (questions) |
Desmond Devlin |
338 - Aug 1995 |
| A |
Rock & Roll Closeups - the correct answers |
Desmond Devlin |
338 - Aug 1995 |
| A |
Howard at the Mike - based on the Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem Casey at the Bat |
Frank Jacobs |
339 - Sep 1995 |
| A |
When Sesame Street Caves in to the Radical Right |
Frank Jacobs |
340 - Oct 1995 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #107 - Oct 1995 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #108 - Nov 1995 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Herbert "The Ax" Maxwell |
|
Special #109 - Dec 1995 |
| A |
Too Bad About You (TV satire) |
Josh Gordon |
342 - Jan 1996 |
| A |
Mad Interviews Miyoursoft's Bile Gates |
Chris Hart |
343 - Mar 1996 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Herbert "The Ax" Maxwell
and Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #111 - Mar 1996 |
| A |
Mad's Colossal, Stupendous, Absolutely
Fantabulous Plan to Liven Up The Academy Awards |
Barry Liebmann |
344 - Apr 1996 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Herbert "The Ax" Maxwell
and Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #112 - Apr 1996 |
| A |
Smellen (TV satire) |
A. J. Marley |
346 - Jun 1996 |
| A |
Pat the Candidate |
David Shayne |
346 - Jun 1996 |
| A |
Solicitation for reader favorite articles to celebrate Mad's 45th anniversary - featuring Herbert "The Ax" Maxwell and Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #113 - Jun 1996 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Herbert "The Ax" Maxwell and Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #115 - Sep 1996 |
| A |
The Hunchback and Note the Dame (movie satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
351 - Nov 1996 |
| A |
When Other Sports Figures Co-Star
with Cartoon Characters in Movies |
Stan Hart |
352 - Dec 1996 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Herbert "The Ax" Maxwell
and Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #117 - Dec 1996 |
| A |
Tortured By An Angel (TV satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
353 - Jan 1997 |
| A |
Rancid (movie satire) |
Stan Hart |
354 - Feb 1997 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Herbert "The Ax" Maxwell
and Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #118 - Feb 1997 |
| A |
Future Editions of MTV's The Real World |
Mike Snider |
356 - Apr 1997 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Herbert "The Ax" Maxwell
and funeral for Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #120 - Apr 1997 |
| A |
Disney-fied Versions of Adult Films |
Frank Jacobs
Desmond Devlin |
358 - Jun 1997 |
| A |
Howeird Stern, Private Putz (movie satire) |
Stan Hart |
359 - Jul 1997 |
| A |
Back Cover -- A Toy We're Sure to See - Wiley Willy |
William T. Raschendorfer |
359 - Jul 1997 |
| A |
A Mad Cybervisit to America Onhold |
Mike Snider |
360 - Aug 1997 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- Clinton-Bashing Monopoly |
|
361 - Sep 1997 |
| A |
Monopoly Cards That Reflect the
Way Business is Really Done Today |
John Prete |
361 - Sep 1997 |
| A |
Cheap Foreign Ripoffs of American Cartoons |
Sean Eisenporth |
362 - Oct 1997 |
| A |
Corntact (movie satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
363 - Nov 1997 |
| A |
Air Farce One (movie satire) |
Stan Hart |
364 - Dec 1997 |
| A |
Bob Villa's Home Aghast (TV satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
366 - Feb 1998 |
| A |
Trypanic (movie satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
369 - May 1998 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- South Park |
Desmond Devlin |
371 - Jul 1998 |
| A |
Letters - featuring Herbert "The Ax" Maxwell
and Elron, your Mad Mailman |
|
Special #130 - Aug 1998 |
| A |
Back Cover -- A Street Sign We're Afraid We'll See |
|
373 - Sep 1998 |
| A |
The Truedumb Show (movie satire) |
Stan Hart |
374 - Oct 1998 |
| A |
When Suicide Cards Really Catch On |
Don (Duck) Edwing |
374 - Oct 1998 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- Dr. Katz / South Park |
|
375 - Nov 1998 |
| A |
Hollow-Scream - It's 2 Slow (movie satire) |
Dick DeBartolo |
376 - Dec 1998 |
| A |
The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 1998
19. Marv Albert Sinks His Teeth Into a New Job |
David Shayne, Joe Raiola |
377 - Jan 1999 |
| A |
An Ode to the Antz - with apologies to Edgar Allen Poe |
Frank Jacobs |
378 - Feb 1999 |
| A |
The Congressional Record Comic Pages |
Don (Duck) Edwing |
378 - Feb 1999 |
| A |
Pro Wrestling Haiku |
Desmond Devlin |
378 - Feb 1999 |
| A |
Mad Tags Along on a Typical Date with Chelsea Clinton |
Mike Mikula |
379 - Mar 1999 |
| A |
Mad Artists Pay Tribute to The Lighter Side Of... |
Dave Berg, see issue |
427 - Mar 2003 |
| A |
Mad's Deck of Least Wanted Americans |
see issue |
434 - Oct 2003 |
| A |
Mad About Hunger (BallPark Franks advertising section)
The Museum of Hunger |
Hermann Mejia, see issue |
480 - Aug 2007 |
| A |
Mad's 50 Worst Things About Advertising |
see issue |
482 - Oct 2007 |
| A |
Mad Deconstructs TV Talk Shows - The Colbert Report |
Desmond Devlin |
484 - Dec 2007 |
| A |
Cover Artist - 
- Alfred E. Neuman for President |
|
495 - Nov 2008 |
| A |
Alfred E. Neuman For President (poster) |
|
495 - Nov 2008 |
| A |
500 Issues of Mad: A Visual History -
Mad Issues 201-300 "Snatched Glory and Bruised Knuckles" |
see issue |
500 - Jun 2009 |
| A |
500 Issues of Mad: A Visual History -
Mad Issues 301-400 "The Rush to Antietam" |
see issue |
500 - Jun 2009 |
| A |
The Mad Quarterly Report (May-July 2009) |
|
501 - Oct 2009 |
| A |
The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2009
17. Cheating Celebs - Living Libido Loca |
|
502 - Jan 2010 |
| A |
The Mad Vault - 1988 |
see issue |
502 - Jan 2010 |
| A |
The Fundalini Pages
Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds - Sarah Palin |
|
503 - May 2010 |
| A |
The Fundalini Pages
Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - TMZ's Harvey Levin |
|
504 - Aug 2010 |
| A |
The Fundalini Pages
Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - Charlie Sheen |
|
505 - Oct 2010 |
| A |
Deleted Passages from George W. Bush's New Book |
Charlie Kadau |
506 - Dec 2010 |
| A |
The Fundalini Pages
Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - Katy Perry |
|
507 - Feb 2011 |
| A |
The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2010
3. Mel Gibson's Rants - The Passion of the Anti-Christ |
|
507 - Feb 2011 |
| A |
The Fundalini Pages
Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - Justin Timberlake |
|
508 - Apr 2011 |
| A |
The Fundalini Pages
Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - Bill O'Reilly |
|
509 - Jun 2011 |
| A |
The Fundalini Pages
Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - Newt Gingrich |
|
510 - Aug 2011 |
| A |
New Monopoly Cards That Reflect
the Sleazy Way Business is Really Done |
Nick Meglin |
510 - Aug 2011 |
| A |
The Fundalini Pages
Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - Blake Lively |
|
511 - Oct 2011 |
| A |
The Fundalini Pages
Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - Kate Middleton |
|
512 - Dec 2011 |
