MAD #160 — July 1973

"Tears are the hydraulic force through which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for MAD Special Number 10

  featuring Don Martin Nonsense Stickers
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters Dept.

  Notes

  • picture of MAD-reading Peter Falk, Ads for Paperbacks, Alfred E. Neuman portraits, Subscriptions (lying below honeymoon bed spikes — written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.)
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• Tell-Tale Comic Strip Balloons

  True-to-Form Dept.

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

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #23 — Winter 1977
  • Super MAD — 1979 (Paperback #51)
  • MAD Special #36 — Fall 1981
  • MAD Special #79 — February 1992
  • MAD Special #101 — January 1995
  4–6
• Cannonball (TV satire)

  The Fat's on the Fire Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Jack Davis
  7–13
• Distinctive Wedding Announcements

  Ball-and-Chain-Letters Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #22 — Fall 1977
  • The Abominable Snow MAD — 1979 (Paperback #52)
  14–16
• One Day in the North Woods

  Don Martin Dept. Part I

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #22 — Fall 1977
  • The Abominable Snow MAD — 1979 (Paperback #52)
  • MAD Special #114 — July 1996
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
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• The Lighter Side of Leisure Time

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #23 — Winter 1977
  • MAD About The Buoy — 1980 (Paperback #53)
  18–22
• A MAD Look at Sheet Music

  One Picture is Worth 1000 Words & Music Dept.

  Idea by Max Brandel / Written by Frank Jacobs
  23–25 sample
• Spy vs. Spy — lion in dynamite

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Antonio Prohias

  Reprinted in 7 collections

  • MAD Special #22 — Fall 1977
  • The Abominable Snow MAD — 1979 (Paperback #52)
  • MAD Special #82 — July 1992
  • Spy Vs. Spy — The Complete Casebook — Antonio Prohias — 2001
  • Spy Vs. Spy — Omnibus — Antonio Prohias — 2011
  • Amazingly Stupid MAD — 2012
  • Amazingly Stupid MAD — Expanded Edition — 2013
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• MAD's Corporate Ecologist of the Year

  Environmentally Disturbed Dept.

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

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #22 — Fall 1977
  • Super MAD — 1979 (Paperback #51)
  27–30
• A High School Year Book That Tells it Like it Really Is

  Schoolduggery Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Jack Rickard

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #22 — Fall 1977
  31–37
• A MAD Look at Weddings

  The Wed Menace Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • MAD Special #22 — Fall 1977
  • MAD's Sergio Aragones On Parade — 1979 Big Book
  • MAD About The Buoy — 1980 (Paperback #53)
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Turd in a Series — 2003
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonés — 2010
  38–41
• One Day With a Wishbone

  Don Martin Dept. Part II

  Don Martin

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #23 — Winter 1977
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Turd in a Series — 2003
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — The Completely MAD Don Martin — 2007
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Don Martin — 2014
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• "Going Thy Way" and "Going Way Out" (movie satires)

  Sing, You Sinners Dept. / Sin, You Swingers Dept.

  Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by Angelo Torres
  43–48
• Fold-In — Which of nature's ravages continues to defy modern technology?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #79 — February 1992
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Keep America Beautiful

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #22 — Fall 1977
  • MAD Special #79 — February 1992
  • MAD #501 — October 2009 — The MAD Vault
  • Intensely Dumb MAD — 2013
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