MAD #6 — Aug.–Sept. 1953

Contents

• No MAD / Subscription Ad

  Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #2 — Winter 1997
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #7 — Fall 1999
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  C2 sample
• Teddy and the Pirates!

  High-Type Adventure Dept.

  Art by Wally Wood

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Strikes Back! — 1955 (Paperback #2)
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #2 — Winter 1997
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  • MAD's Original Idiots — Wally Wood — 2015
  1–8
• Melvin of the Apes!

  Jungle Dept.

  Art by John Severin

  Reprinted in 9 collections

  • MAD For Keeps — 1958
  • The Brothers MAD — 1958 (Paperback #5)
  • MAD Special #9 — Summer 1973 — The Nostalgic MAD #1
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #2 — Winter 1997
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  9–15 sample
• Hevo the Great — ads for other E.C. titles interspersed

  Art by Harvey Kurtzman

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #7 — Fall 1999
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  16–17
• Mad Mumblings

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  18
• Casey at the Bat!

  Poetry Dept.

  Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • The Bedside MAD — 1959 (Paperback #6)
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #2 — Winter 1997
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  • MAD's Original Idiots — Jack Davis — 2015
  • MAD #21 — October 2021
  19–24
• Ping Pong!

  Horror Dept.

  Art by Will Elder

  Reprinted in 10 collections

  • MAD Strikes Back! — 1955 (Paperback #2)
  • MAD Special #12 — Summer 1974 — The Nostalgic MAD #2
  • Completely MAD — 1991 (excerpt)
  • Tales Calculated To Drive You MAD #2 — Winter 1997
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • The MAD Archives — Volume 1 — 2002
  • MAD Classics #4 — January 2006
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • MAD's Original Idiots — Will Elder — 2015
  25–31 sample
• Real ads
  32, C3, C4

Credits

• Entire issue written by Harvey Kurtzman / except Hevo the Great written by Jerry DeFuccio / and the text of Casey at the Bat! by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
• Color by Marie Severin
• Article lettering by Ben Oda