MAD #291 — December 1989

"You know illiteracy is a problem when the only thing most people can read are George Bush's lips!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

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  featuring MAD Buttons Bonus
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Photos of Jack Nicholson and Yakov Smirnoff with #289, Ad for MAD's All New "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" by Al Jaffee Paperback
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• The Blunder Years (TV satire)

  Sixties-Something Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Sam Viviano

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #107 — October 1995
  • MAD Special #127 — March 1998
  4–8
• The Lusty Ledge Legend

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #107 — October 1995
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  9
• Compu-Doc Self-Service Medical Terminal

  A View to an Ill Dept.

  Written by Paul Coker, Jr. and Floyd Kemske / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #107 — October 1995
  10–11 sample
• More Items from MAD's Celebrity Supermarket

  Big-Name Brands Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #96 — Early Spring 1994
  12–14
• Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy — nitroglycerin martini glass clink

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

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

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #113 — June 1996
  • MAD XL #28 — July 2004
  • Spy vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  15 sample
• Why You Are Sure to Win the Next Magazine Publishers' Sweepstakes

  Four You Prize Only Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #98 — Mid Summer 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  16–18
• MAD's Political Image Maker of the Year

  Reaching New Hypes of Absurdity Dept.

  Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #96 — Early Spring 1994
  19–22
• The Feathered Feeding Frenzy

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #107 — October 1995
  • MAD XL #24 — November 2003
  23
• Baseball at the Bat

  Frank on a Roll Dept.

  based on the Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by James Warhola

  Reprinted in 7 collections

  • MAD Special #107 — October 1995
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD 50 Years of Stupidity! — 2002
  • Inside MAD — 2013
  • MAD Picks — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • MAD's Greatest Writers — Frank Jacobs — 2015
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  24–25
• Fleeting "Stars" of the Six O'Clock Local News

  This Just In...and Out Dept.

  Paul Peter Porges

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #107 — October 1995
  26–27
• No Hoax Barred (movie satire)

  Hogan's Zeroes Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #113 — June 1996
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  28–32
• The Jarring Jungle Joyride

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #99 — Early Fall 1994
  • MAD XL #28 — July 2004
  • The MAD Summer Survival Guide — 2004
  33
• MAD's Big Ego Busters

  Deflater Mouth Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #102 — March 1995
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  34–35 sample
• How Newspapers Write Misleading Headlines to Jazz Up Otherwise Dull Stories

  Schlock the Presses Dept.

  Written by Paul Laikin

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #107 — October 1995
  36–37
• A MAD Look at Ghosts

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 7 collections

  • MAD Special #98 — Mid Summer 1994
  • Horrifyingly MAD — 2011
  • MAD Spoofs Horror — Special Collector's Edition 2017
  • MAD #22 — December 2021
  • MAD #27 — October 2022
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 4 — Nov/Dec 2022
  • MAD Haunts Halloween — Special Edition 2024
  38–39
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #18 — November 2002
  40–44
• Inbanana Jones and His Last Crude Days (movie satire)

  Ford-Gone Conclusion Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Color Classics #1 — April 2000
  • MAD Classics #22 — July 2008
  45–48
• Fold-In — When it comes to protecting us, where is our government's weakest link?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Lesser-Known Ninja Turtles

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Greg Theakston

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #96 — Early Spring 1994
  • MAD About the Eighties — 1999
  • MAD About Super Heroes — 2002
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