Mad #256 July 1985

• Cover Artist: Richard Williams
• Cover Writer: Al Jaffee

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• Fold-In -- What safe, cheap Star Wars technology
  would we like to suggest to The Pentagon? (Al Jaffee) (C2)
• Contents Page (1)
• Letters (2-3)
• Ads for The Plaid Mad & The Mad Self-Improvement Yearbook Paperbacks and Subscriptions
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Die-Nasty (TV satire)
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Mort Drucker art) (4-9)
• One Fine Sunday Afternoon in the Jungle
  (written by Mat Jacobs / Don Martin art) (10)
• The Mad Wrestling Primer
  (written by Lou Silverstone / Jack Davis art) (11-13)
• Raising Money With Other Forms of Legalized Gambling
  (written by Tom Koch / George Woodbridge art) (14-15)
• The Mad Emergency Barf-Inducing Technique -
  The Potrzebie Maneuver
  (written by John Ficarra / Al Jaffee art) (16-18)
• Porn in the U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen song parody)
  (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (19)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (20-24)
• One Fine Tuesday Morning Uptown
  (written by Mat Jacobs / Don Martin art) (25)
• Join Mad's Trendy Book of the Month Club
  (written by Larry Siegel / Bob Clarke art) (26-27)
• If Advertisers Made Use of Old Masters
  (written by Frank Jacobs) (28-31)
• The Mad Practical Driving Test (idea by Elizabeth Swain)
  (written by Tom Koch / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (32-34)
• Mad's "Goetz Mask" - Special Bonus -
  Wear This and No Mugger Will Mess With You!!!
  (Allan Tannenbaum photo)
  (idea by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder) (35)
• Pastimes for Nerds (Paul Peter Porges) (36-37)
• If the Miller Lite Beer Gang Ran This Country
  (written by Larry Siegel / Sam Viviano art) (38-39)
• Mad's Really Perplexing Mysteries of Life
  (written by Mike Snider / Harry North, Esq. art) (40-41)
• One Fine Friday Evening Downtown
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Don Martin art) (42)
• Beverly Hills Cop Out (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art) (43-48)
• Back Cover -- The Trivial Pursuit Survival Kit
  (written by John Ficarra) (also on C3)

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• Last issue edited by Al Feldstein.
  He co-edited it with John Ficarra and Nick Meglin.