Doug Gilford's MAD Cover Site
Established August 16, 1997
A resource for collectors and fans of the world's most important (ecch!) humor publication.
All covers, MAD material copyright © 1952–2026 EC Publications.
This site is not affiliated with MAD Magazine or EC Publications, or DC Entertainment, or DC Comics, or Time Warner, or Warner Brothers Entertainment, or WarnerMedia, or AT&T, or Warner Bros. Discovery — but I think they're OK with most of it.
Site text and layout copyright © 1997–2026 Doug Gilford.
If you use a scan for your site or elsewhere in social media, do the right thing and at least leave my tag on the image and/or give credit back to MadCoverSite.com — thanks!
Questions, corrections, clarifications, general banter, encouraging words, reality checks, weather reports…
E-mail: madcoversite@yahoo.com
The Evolution of the Site
My goal for the site was simple over 28 years ago: display regular issue front covers. A lot more has been added over the years. Here's a rough evolution of those additions:
- Front cover scans of regular issues with rudimentary content listings
- Complete contents of article titles in order of occurrence
- Credited writers and artists
- Complete Movie and TV satire charts
- Maintaining a price list courtesy of Overstreet
- Presented The Don Martin Dictionary in an online form
- Rescanned and improved/enlarged front cover scans to fit bigger monitors
- Magazine back cover scans
- Annuals (The Worst from MAD, More Trash from MAD, MAD Follies)
- MAD Super Specials
- Linked reprinted article titles back to their original sources in the regular issues
- Charted the contributions of all MAD contributors
- Created an interactive version of Sergio Aragonés' Inside MAD offices poster
- Paperbacks
- All the other various Specials to the current day
- Grouped recurring article types / features into their own lists
- MAD Books
- Hosted the auctions of Tim Johnson / reprinted his original catalogs
- Reprinted Ron Labbe's 6 MAD Freaks U.S.A. fanzines
- Reprinted Ed Norris' 1990–2002 71-issue run of his The MAD Panic fanzine
- Made an attempt to categorize and describe all Sergio Aragonés marginals (got to about 40%)
- Added page number spans to all regular issue articles, indicating article length and which page (even number left / odd number right) an article began on
- Added Alfred E. Neumanisms to each regular issue page as they appeared above issue contents
- Gradually redesigning pages for a site-wide format change
And I continue to tweak things now and then to try to make this the best resource of its kind.
"MAD A to Z" — written by Desmond Devlin, art by Hermann Mejia
from MAD Magazine #600 — August 2026. I was surprised to see I got the G-spot.
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