MAD #388 — December 1999

"If people wanted your unsolicited advice, they'd ask for it!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions

  Kelly Freas art from MAD #52
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• Contents Page

  Notes

  • "Vey To Go" — "Me? I thought you knew him." by P. C. Vey
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD #403 — March 2001
  1,3
• Ad for Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad #8 — Winter 1999

  Contains reprints of comics #22 and #23, promos of next issue #389 and MAD XL #1
  2
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • The New York Times borrows the Fold-In concept
  4–5
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• MAD Looks at What's on the Back of Your Ticket

  Aye, There's the Stub Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin and Butch D'Ambrosio / Art by Ray Alma

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #32 — March 2005
  6–9
• A MAD Look at Funerals

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  10–13
• Monroe &... The Candy

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray
  14–16
• SlimeDish Digital Television (ad parody)

  An Embarrassment of Richard's Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD About TV — 1999
  • MADvertising — 2005
  17
• Spy vs. Spy — fan blows back aerosol acid

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Written by Michael Gallagher / Art by Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  18–19
• End-of-the-Millennium War Awards

  Prose and Conflict Dept.

  Rick Geary
  20 sample
• The Positive Side of the Y2K Problem

  Grist for the Mill-ennium Dept.

  Written by Barry Liebmann / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #32 — March 2005
  21–23
• Absentee Excuse Notes Through History

  Missives in Action Dept.

  Written by Charlie Richards / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #2 — September 2005
  24–25
• Clues Your High School's Football Team Really Sucks

  Let's Get Ready to Fumble! Dept.

  John Caldwell
  26–27
• They Shoot Horses' Asses, Don't They?

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing
  28
• The Spending Annex Adult Education Center

  A Dolt's Education Dept.

  Written by Scott Maiko / Photos by Irving Schild
  29–32
• Scenes of Americana Yesterday & Today

  Oy Vey Can You See Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Classics #10 — October 2006
  • MAD #521 — June 2013 — The MAD Vault
  33–35
• Sean "Puffy" Combs' Day Planner

  A Poke in the Itinerary Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Andre Leroy Davis

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Classics #2 — September 2005
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  36–37
• Other Y2K Problems Guaranteed to Make Your Life Miserable

  More Grist for the Mill-ennium Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Monte Wolverton

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD #30 — April 2023
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 5 — Apr/May 2023
  38
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #4 — January 2006
  39–42
• Moronica's Closet (TV satire)

  Alley Opps! Dept.

  Written by Josh Gordon / Art by Angelo Torres
  43–47
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Ricky Martin

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia
  48
• Fold-In — What frightening project has inexplicably raked in millions?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964-2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Artist At Work

  Written by Michael Gallagher / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Gross Book — 2001
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