MAD #280 — July 1988

"A lawyer is someone who writes a 30-page document and calls it a brief!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Ad for MAD's Sheer Torture by Don (Duck) Edwing Paperback
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• New Cigarette Warning Labels You May Have Missed

  Ifs, Ands and Butts Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Photo by Irving Schild / Idea by Annie Gaines

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD XL #30 — November 2004
  4–5
• A MAD Peek Behind the Scenes at a High School Prom

  The Tux Flocks Here Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Art by Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #90 — November 1993
  • MAD XL #34 — July 2005
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  6–7
• Drama on Page 8 — overly engineered rimshot

  Drum Schtick Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #102 — March 1995
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  8
• Three Morons and a Baby (movie satire)

  Tour of Doody Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  9–12
• Broadcast Snooze (movie satire)

  Anchor Sore Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  12–15
• Spy vs. Spy — flying carpet bed of nails balloon popper

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  16
• Duck Edwing Rushes into the Emergency Room

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #98 — Mid Summer 1994
  • The MAD Gross Book — 2001
  17–19
• Tricks of the Trade in Local TV News

  Eyewitness Ruse Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #90 — November 1993
  • MAD About TV — 1999
  • MAD Color Classics #5 — April 2002
  • MAD #49 — June 2026
  20–21
• MAD's Post-Nuclear Publications

  All the Nukes That's Fit to Print Dept.

  Written by Barry Liebmann / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  22–23 sample
• Gary Hart Land

  Carnival Knowledge Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Art by Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #90 — November 1993
  24–25 sample
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #107 — October 1995
  • MAD Special #120 — April 1997
  26–30
• MAD's Comprehensive Modern-Day Disaster, Hazard & Problem Insurance

  Get a Piece of the Schlock Dept.

  Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  31–33
• Schwarzenegger

  Frank on a Roll Dept.

  (based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha)

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD XL #25 — January 2004
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Mort Drucker — 2012
  34
• When Other Comic Strips Start Using the "Far Side" Formula

  Grand Larson-y Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 8 collections

  • MAD Special #101 — January 1995
  • MAD About the Eighties — 1999
  • MAD About Comic Strips — 2003
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • MAD #502 — January 2010 — The MAD Vault (excerpt)
  • Inside MAD — 2013
  • MAD Choice Cuts — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  35–37
• MAD's Plan For Improving Movie Theatres

  Gall of the House of Ushers Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Harry North, Esq.

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Gushing Fourth Edition — 2004
  38–39
• Talk About Cheap!

  Charge of the Tight Brigade Dept.

  Paul Peter Porges

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Gushing Fourth Edition — 2004
  40–41
• Drama on Page 42 — defendant's twin brother shares arm

  Witless for the Defense Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  42
• Beauty is the Beast (TV satire)

  Where the Wild Thing Stars Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  43–47
• "A MAD Good Luck Chain Letter"

  Writes of Passage Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs
  48
• Fold-In —
  What loathsome form of useless vegetation is cropping up all over the land?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #111 — March 1996
  • MAD Fold This Book — 1997
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964-2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Alfred E. Neuman For President — Vote MAD in '88

  Written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Art by Norman Mingo from MAD #153

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Dumps on Trump and other unlikeable Leaders! — Special Collector's Edition 2018
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