Recurring Features in MAD Magazine

Irregularly Recurring Features

Inspired by this Wikipedia list, these are features that appeared in the magazine at least three times.

• 6 Degrees of Separation
• 7 Periods Closer to Death — see Ted Rall's page
• 15 Minutes of Fame
• MAD's of the Year
• Revisited
• Academy Awards for
• Additions to the Dictionary
• Ads and Commercials We'd Like to See
• Alfred's Poor Almanac
• Alphabet Books / Samplers / ABC's of...
• American Jokes They're Telling in Poland
• MAD's Aptitude Test
• Badly Needed Warning Labels for Rock Albums
• MAD Beastlies
• Believe It or Nuts!
• Bob & Ray — see Bob Elliott's and Ray Goulding's pages
• Candid Snapshots
• Catalogs, Ad Brochures, Financial Reports and Menus
• Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds
• Celebrity Silhouettes
• MAD's Celebrity Supermarket
• A Celebrity's Wallet
• Cents-Less Coupons
• Chilling Thoughts
• A Collection of MAD X-RAYvings
• The Cutting Room Floor, Movie and TV Outtakes
• A Day in the Life of
• MAD Deconstructs TV Talk Shows
• Dewey Derwin Destroys the World!
• MAD's Do-It-Yourself
• Drama on Page... — see John Caldwell's page
• Duke Bissell's Tales of Undisputed Interest — see P. C. Vey's page
• MAD's ecchBay Item of the Month
• Etiquette Guides
• Footnotes* to
• The Gap-Toothed Gallery
• Gross and Beyond Gross
• The MAD Guide to Man Boobs
• The MAD Hate Book
• Hawks & Doves
• Horrifying Clichès
• How Many Mistakes Can You Find in this Picture?
• If Norman Rockwell Depicted...
• MAD's Inspirational Animal Stories — see writer Brian McConnachie's page
• MAD's "Late Show" Cliche Movie Script — see artist Bruce Stark's page
• The MAD Library of Extremely Thin Books
• Little Known and Rarely Diagnosed MAD Ailments
• Magazines within MAD Magazine
• Marginals — other than those created by Sergio Aragones
• Me and My Big Mouth
• Meanwhile... — see Pia Guerra's and Ian Boothby's pages
• MAD Medals (to be presented to deserving...)
• Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to
• Monroe — see writer Anthony Barbieri's page
• Movie Dialogue We'd Like to Hear
• The MAD Nasty Book / File
• New Movie Monsters
• Obituaries for
• A MAD Peek Behind the Scenes at
• A MAD Peek Through the Microscope
• The MAD People Watcher's Guide to
• Phrases That Left the English Language
• Planet Tad!!!!! — see Tim Carvell's page
• Pop Off Video
• The MAD Primer
• Puzzle Pages! (fake and real examples)
• MAD Roulette
• The MAD Safety Council's Predictions
• Same Words... Different Circumstances!
• Scenes We'd Like to See
• The Shadow Knows
• The Sights and Sounds of The U.S.A.
• Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions
• Songs of
• Speaking From Pictures, Foto-Plays, Foto-News, Overheard...
• Spot Your Parents!
• Subscription Ads
• MAD's Table of Little-Known and Very Useless Weights, Measures & Distances
• Trademark Graffiti
• The MAD Travel Agency's Specialized Tours
• A MAD Look at Two Generations
• Typewri-Toons
• UPC Symbol Gags
• The MAD Vault
• Vey To Go and Oy Vey! — see P. C. Vey's page
• MAD's Video Reviews
• Visual Wordplay
• What is a ?
• What's the Story...?
• What They Say and What it Really Means
• When Go Bad
• The Wisenheim Museum
• The MAD World of
• The Worst Things About
• The Year in Film
• The Yellow Pages Through History
• You Know You're Really When...
• Your MAD Horoscope

• The Fundalini Pages started with issue #438 and continued until issue #550. The 45th President of the United States got a Fundalini-like focus with The Trumpalini Pages in issues 539, 540, 545, 546, 547, and 548. With the new MAD incarnation The Fundalinis were revamped and named Shorts & Briefs. Those pages themselves contain many irregularly recurring features.
• The Strip Club collection of comic strips (many irregularly recurring) first appeared in issue #455 with many breaks between issues, eventually becoming an every-issue feature with #503 until its last New York issue #550.
• The Best of the Idiotical ran from #517 to #537, featuring items from MAD's blog in print form.
• The first seven Burbank issues ran Potrzebie Comics, showcasing a sometimes recurring assortment of longer form comic strips. Those with at least three appearances included: Lukey & Mukey, Spaghetti & Meatball, The Chancers, The 27 Club, and Boonies, Burbs, and Burgs.
• Begrudgingly mentioned here was the truly awful Go Fetch! advertising feature soiling nine issues #457 through #464 and #466. I didn't care for it.
• Fake Article Titles have appeared in the contents pages for over twenty years!
• More of an occasional occurrence than a feature were a number of Articles That Surprised Us With a Turn of the Page.

• 2-Question Interview
• The Answer MAD
• Antiques Freakshow with Hans Brickface
• MAD Artist Cartoons in Letter Responses
• The Big Easel / The Big Robot
• The Big Question / The Big Answer
• The Big Teacher's Pet
• MAD Blurbs
• MAD's Breaking News
• Carved Pumpkins and Costumes
• Celebrity Snaps
• MAD Cemetery Snaps
• Envelope of the Month
• MAD E.S.P.
• In Memoriam
• Make A Dumb Wish Foundation
• Monroe Fan Club
• The MAD Party / The Big Party
• MAD References in Media
• Rip-Offs of MAD
• What Sort of People Read MAD?
• William M. Gaines Family Letters

Compiled by John R. Racano (mostly)

Regularly Recurring Features

The most iconic regular features are pretty well laid out on their respective creator's pages:

• MAD Fold-In — see Al Jaffee from #86, April 1964 to #14, August 2020 — Johnny Sampson took over thereafter.
• The Lighter Side of... — see Dave Berg from #66, October 1961 to the end of MAD's New York run with the occasional The Darker Side of The Lighter Side. Writer Tammy Golden and artist Jon Adams have updated the feature in the new MAD.
• A MAD Look At... — see Sergio Aragones from #76, January 1963 to the present day (sporadically).
• Marginals or "Drawn-Out Dramas" — by Sergio Aragones from #76, January 1963 to the present day (except for missing Issues #111 and #122). Something may actually be in the works for these.
• Don Martin gags — see all of Don Martin's work from #29, Sept. 1956 to #277, March 1988
• Don (Duck) Edwing gags — see all of Don (Duck) Edwing's work from #70, April 1962 to #515, June 2012
• Spy vs. Spy — see Antonio Prohias, Don "Duck" Edwing, Bob Clarke, Dave Manak, and Peter Kuper starting from #60, January 1961 to the present day (sporadically).
• Movie and Television satires
• The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events & Things was introduced with the January 1999 issue #377 and continued annually with the first issue of each new year ending with February 2020 Burbank issue #11.
• Advertising satires — I started this over a decade ago... (maybe finishing it will be my next project)
• ...and then there are all those song parodies...