MAD #200 — July 1978

"Living it up is like taking out insurance…the older you get, the more it costs you!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for MAD Super Special Number 25

  Don Martin "Rock Music" Posters
  C2
• Contents Page
  1
• Letters Dept.

  Notes

  • Alfred E. Neuman portraits / A MAD Look at The Future Paperback / Subscriptions (church bell rope noose — written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• Clod Encounters of the Absurd Kind (movie satire)

  Boffo UFO Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #43 — Summer 1983
  • Son of MAD Sucks — 1985 (Paperback #70)
  • MAD Special #117 — December 1996
  • MAD Spoofs Sci-Fi / Star Wars — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  4–10 sample
• The Rime of the Modern Skateboarder

  From Fad to Verse Dept.

  (with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Don Martin

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • The Qwerty MAD — 1986 (Paperback #71)
  • MAD Special #60 — Fall 1987
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely Mad Don Martin — 2007
  11–14 sample
• You Can Never Escape From Stress

  That Old Familiar Strain Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Son of MAD Sucks — 1985 (Paperback #70)
  15–17
• The Lighter Side of Fads

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The Qwerty MAD — 1986 (Paperback #71)
  • MAD Special #56 — Fall 1986
  18–22
• Graduation Class Pictures as Staged by Some of the World's Best-Known Picture-Makers

  Awful Assembly Dept.

  Written by Paul Peter Porges / Art by Harry North, Esq.

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Stamp Out MAD — 1984 (Paperback #66)
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  23–25 sample
• When Those "Old Line" Comic Strips Follow the New Wave, Cerebral "Doonesbury" Trend

  Tried and Trudeau Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Jack Rickard

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Stamp Out MAD — 1984 (Paperback #66)
  • MAD Zaps the Human Race! — Frank Jacobs — 1984 Big Book
  26–28
• MAD's College Concert Comic of the Year

  The Dirty End of the Schtick Dept.

  Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Monster MAD — 1985 (Paperback #68)
  • MAD Special #64 — Fall 1988
  29–32
• Spy vs. Spy — elevating torpedo

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Antonio Prohias

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • Son of MAD Sucks — 1985 (Paperback #70)
  • MAD Special #57 — Winter 1986
  • Spy Vs. Spy — The Complete Casebook — Antonio Prohias — 2001
  • Spy Vs. Spy — Omnibus — Antonio Prohias — 2011
  • MAD Presents Spy Vs. Spy — An Explosive Celebration — 2015
  33
• The MAD Book of Odds

  You Bet Your Life Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • Fleer Goes MAD Sticker Album — 1983
  • Forbidden MAD — 1984 (Paperback #67)
  • MAD Special #60 — Fall 1987
  34–35
• How to Read Between the Lines

  Hidden Meanies Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart
  36–39
• A MAD Look at the Moment Before the Disaster

  Zings to Come Dept.

  Paul Peter Porges

  Reprinted in 9 collections

  • The Plaid MAD — 1985 (Paperback #69)
  • MAD Special #60 — Fall 1987
  • MAD Classics #15 — June 2007
  • MAD Kids #6 — March 2007
  • Amazingly Stupid MAD — 2012
  • Amazingly Stupid MAD — Expanded Edition — 2013
  • Inside MAD — 2013
  • MAD Choice Cuts — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  40–42 sample
• The Dummy & Mareek Show (TV satire)

  Sweetness Counts Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Angelo Torres
  43–47
• Before the Rock Concert

  Socket to 'Em Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • Forbidden MAD — 1984 (Paperback #67)
  • MAD Special #112 — April 1996
  • MAD About the Seventies — 1996
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  48 sample
• Fold-In — What volatile ingredients now being formulated are sure to cause future catastrophes?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #53 — Winter 1985
  • MAD About the Seventies — 1996
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
  C3
• Back Cover — More Scenes We'd Like to See — The Frog Prince

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Don Martin

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #59 — Summer 1987
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely Mad Don Martin — 2007
  C4