MAD #43 — December 1958

Contents

• American Expense Account Cheques (ad parody)

  Art by Kelly Freas

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • More Trash From MAD #2 — 1959 Annual
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
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• Contents Page
  1
• Proverbs Revisited
  (various places around the magazine)
• Mad's MVTBA (Most Valuable Television Baseball Actors) Awards

  The Double-Play's the Thing Dept.

  Written by Larry Siegel / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Frontier — 1962 (Paperback #12)
  2–3
• Letters Dept.

  Notes

  • Ads for "What, Me Worry" Kid portrait, The Brothers Mad, Mad For Keeps, Gift Subscriptions (Will Elder art from Panic #1)
  4–5
• The End of Comics

  Installment Overdue Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Wally Wood

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Forever — 1959
  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  • The MAD Frontier — 1962 (Paperback #12)
  • MAD Special #36 — Fall 1981
  6–9
• Future Magazine Mergers

  Togetherness Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Follies #1 — 1963 Annual
  10–12
• Scenes We'd Like to See — The Frogmen

  Hollywood Dept.

  Joe Orlando

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  13 sample
• The Electricians

  Don Martin Dept. Part I

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Forever — 1959
  • The Completely Mad Don Martin — 1974 Big Book
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely Mad Don Martin — 2007
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Don Martin — 2014
  14–15 sample
• If Hollywood Directors Staged Advertising Photos

  Hollywood Dept.

  Art by Wally Wood

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  16–18 sample
• Pushcarts

  Food for Thought Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Forever — 1959
  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  • Dave Berg's MAD Trash — 1977 Big Book
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Dave Berg — 2013
  19–21
• Health Chairs

  Relax in Discomfort Dept.

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  • MAD #31 — June 2023
  22–23
• The Mad Halloween Trick-Or-Treatment

  Hobble Them Goblins Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Forever — 1959
  • More Trash From MAD #7 — 1964 Annual
  • MAD XL #30 — November 2004
  • Horrifyingly MAD — 2011
  • MAD #22 — December 2021
  24–25
• The Mad Treasury of Unknown Poetry

  Verse of the People Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Joe Orlando

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Forever — 1959
  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  • The MAD Frontier — 1962 (Paperback #12)
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  26–27
• Special Lamps for Reading Magazines

  Light Up Your Life Dept.

  Art by Bob Clarke
  28–29
• Misleading Headlines

  Extra! Extra! Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  • The MAD Frontier — 1962 (Paperback #12)
  30–31
• The New Baby

  Danny Kaye Dept. Part I

  Written by Danny Kaye and Milton Schafer / Art by Wally Wood

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  32–33
• Coming Musicals

  And Then I Wrote Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs and Larry Siegel / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  34–36
• The End of a Perfect Day

  Don Martin Dept. Part II

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The Completely Mad Don Martin — 1974 Big Book
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely Mad Don Martin — 2007
  37 sample
• Bob & Ray — Music Report

  Bob & Ray Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding / Art by Mort Drucker
  38–40
• Payhouse 90 Production Schedule

  Television Dept.

  Written by Albert Meglin

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  41
• The Smithshop

  Traumatic Workshop Dept.

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Forever — 1959
  • More Trash From MAD #7 — 1964 Annual
  42–43
• Woodlore

  To Blazes With the Trail Dept.

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Forever — 1959
  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  • The MAD Frontier — 1962 (Paperback #12)
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  44–46
• The Bathtub Admiral

  Danny Kaye Dept. Part II

  Written by Danny Kaye and Milton Schafer / Art by Wally Wood
  47
• Down Lovers' Lane

  Don Martin Dept. Part III

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  • The Completely Mad Don Martin — 1974 Big Book
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely Mad Don Martin — 2007
  48
• Ad — You'll "go far" in a MAD T-Shirt! — $1.25

  Photo by Larry Maleman of Al Feldstein, John Putnam, Jerry DeFuccio as hobos in boxcar
  C3 sample
• Back Cover — Crust Gum Paste

  Art by Kelly Freas

  Reprinted in 11 collections

  • MAD Forever — 1959
  • The Worst From MAD #3 — 1960 Annual
  • The Ridiculously Expensive MAD — 1969
  • Completely MAD — 1991
  • MAD About the Fifties — 1997
  • MAD Art — 2002
  • MADvertising — 2005
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Best of the Worst! — Special Collector's Edition 2012
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  • MAD #33 — October 2023
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