Mad #43 December 1958

• Cover Artist: Kelly Freas
• Cover Writer: Joe Orlando
• Mad Logo: Harvey Kurtzman

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• American Expense Account Cheques (ad parody)
  (Kelly Freas art) (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• Proverbs Revisited **various places around the magazine
• Mad's MVTBA
  (Most Valuable Television Baseball Actors) Awards
  (written by Larry Siegel / George Woodbridge art) (2-3)
• Letters (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
  (written by Tom Koch / Wally Wood art) (6-9)
• Future Magazine Mergers
  (written by Tom Koch / Bob Clarke art) (10-12)
• Scenes We'd Like to See - The Frogmen (Joe Orlando) (13)
• The Electricians (Don Martin) (14-15)
• If Hollywood Directors Staged Advertising Photos
  (Wally Wood art) (16-18)
• Pushcarts (Dave Berg) (19-21)
• Health Chairs (written by Al Jaffee / Bob Clarke art) (22-23)
• The Mad Halloween Trick-Or-Treatment
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Mort Drucker art) (24-25)
• The Mad Treasury of Unknown Poetry
  (written by Tom Koch / Joe Orlando art) (26-27)
• Special Lamps for Reading Magazines
  (Bob Clarke art) (28-29)
• Misleading Headlines (written by Frank Jacobs) (30-31)
• The New Baby (written by Danny Kaye and Milton Schafer)
  (Wally Wood art) (32-33)
• Coming Musicals (Bob Clarke art)
  (written by Frank Jacobs and Larry Siegel) (34-36)
• The End of a Perfect Day (Don Martin) (37)
• Bob & Ray -- Music Report
  (written by Tom Koch / Mort Drucker art) (38-40)
• Payhouse 90 Production Schedule
  (written by Albert Meglin) (41)
• The Smithshop
  (written by Al Jaffee / Bob Clarke art) (42-43)
• Woodlore
  (written by Al Jaffee / George Woodbridge art) (44-46)
• The Bathtub Admiral (Wally Wood art)
  (written by Danny Kaye and Milton Schafer) (47)
• Down Lovers' Lane (Don Martin) (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)
• Back Cover -- Crust Gum Paste (Kelly Freas art)