MAD #213 — March 1980

"A racetrack is where the windows clean the people!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for MAD Super Special — Summer 1980

  featuring The MAD Mystery Record / Art by Norman Mingo
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters Dept.

  Notes

  • Ads for The MAD Worry Book Paperback, Alfred E. Neuman portraits, Subscriptions (hanging by kite string — art by Paul Coker, Jr.)
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• Moneyraker (movie satire)

  And the Bond Plays On and On Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Harry North, Esq.

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #59 — Summer 1987
  • The Spare MAD — 1988 (Paperback #77)
  4–11 sample
• Sure-Fire Burglar Deterrents

  It Shakes a Thief Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #47 — Summer 1984
  • MAD's Maddest Writer Dick DeBartolo presents Here's MAD in Your Eye — 1984 Big Book
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Number Two — 2001
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  12–13
• Don Martin Looks at Dracula

  A Count Receivable Dept.

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • MAD Special #57 — Winter 1986
  • MAD Duds — 1987 (Paperback #75)
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  • MAD #33 — October 2023
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 6 — Jul/Aug 2023
  • MAD Haunts Halloween — Special Edition 2024
  14–16
• MAD's "Religion" Promoter of the Year

  Godsell Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #59 — Summer 1987
  • MAD Duds — 1987 (Paperback #75)
  17–21
• Still More Yellow Pages Through History — His Majesty's Medieval Telephone Company

  Bygone Buy-Gones Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Bob Clarke
  22–23
• A MAD Look at The Silent Thinking Audience

  Reactions Speak Louder Than Words Dept.

  Written by Paul Peter Porges / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Gushing Fourth Edition — 2004
  24–26
• A MAD Look at the Changing Tools of Education

  Scholastricks Dept.

  Written by Larry Siegel / Art by Jack Rickard

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • 'til MAD do us part — 1987 (Paperback #76)
  27–29
• The Lighter Side of Competition

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #59 — Summer 1987
  • MAD XL #15 — June 2002
  • MAD About Dad — 2004 (excerpt)
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  30–34
• MAD Medals to be Presented to Deserving Working People

  Given' 'Em a Ribbin' Dept.

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #58 — Spring 1987
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Gushing Fourth Edition — 2004
  35
• What is a Show Off?

  Display's the Thing Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #13 — January 2002
  36–37
• Surplus Items We Can Sell to the Arabs

  Fleece Market Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Harry North, Esq.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #60 — Fall 1987
  38–41
• Rockhead II (movie satire)

  A Rolling Stallone Gathers More Gross Dept.

  Written by Larry Siegel / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #46 — Spring 1984
  • The Spare MAD — 1988 (Paperback #77)
  • MAD Special #70 — Spring 1990
  42–48 sample
• Fold-In — What big disaster has occurred on this page?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #69 — Winter 1989
  • MAD Fold This Book — 1997
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Pay Toll — Fifty Feet

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Don Martin

  Reprinted in 12 collections

  • MAD Special #45 — Winter 1983
  • Fleer Goes MAD Sticker Album — 1983
  • MAD About the Eighties — 1999
  • MAD XL #3 — June 2000
  • The MAD Gross Book — 2001
  • MAD Art — 2002
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • Disturbingly Awful MAD — 2013
  • The Golden Treasury of Trash — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Don Martin — 2014
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
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