MAD #281 — September 1988

"There was a time when a preacher's Little Black Book was the Bible!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Super Special Winter 1988 — Mad Bombs Again!
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Photo of Edward Woodward holding MAD #271, choking Dick DeBartolo — Ad for The MAD Cooler Paperback — Mad Wristwatch plug — Ad for Subscriptions featuring Mort Drucker's MAD Show-Stoppers and MAD's Maddest Writer Dick DeBartolo Presents Here's MAD in Your Eye Big Book Bonuses
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• St. Healthscare (TV satire)

  Hippocratic Oafs Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #109 — December 1995
  • MAD About TV — 1999
  4–8
• The Perilous Pacific Pickle

  Tales From the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  • MAD About the Eighties — 1999
  • MAD XL #22 — July 2003
  • The MAD Summer Survival Guide — 2004
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  9
• Spuds Mackenzie's Photo Album

  Mutt Ado About Nothing Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau / Art by Bob Jones

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  • MAD Spoofs the '80s — Special Collector's Edition 2016
  10–11
• If… (revised for the '88 campaign)

  Frank on a Roll Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Gerry Gersten
  12–13
• The Lighter Side of…

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg
  14–18
• A Collector's Guide to Stamps Sneakily Designed for Fun and Profit

  All Jaffee Dept.

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  19–22
• The Manhattan Monster Monkeyshine

  Tales From the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  • MAD Special #129 — July 1998
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • Horrifyingly MAD — 2011
  • MAD #20 — August 2021
  23 sample
• The MAD People Watcher's Guide to a Political Convention

  Behind the Nominate Ball Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Harvey Kurtzman

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Gushing Fourth Edition — 2004
  24–25
• A Look at MAD's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

  And the Beat Goes On…Display Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Sam Viviano

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #93 — May 1994
  26–27
• Foolproof Ways to Suck-Up to Grandparents

  Geriatricks Dept.

  Paul Peter Porges

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #107 — October 1995
  28–29
• Really Tough Categories for The $100,000 Pyramid

  Ask Backwards Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.
  30–31
• A MAD Look at Garage Sales

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  32–33
• An Indifferent World (TV satire)

  Rebel Without a Cos Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #92 — March 1994
  34–38 sample
• Caldwell — excerpts from John Caldwell book

  Excerpts Mark the Spot Dept.

  John Caldwell
  39–41
• A MAD Peek Behind the Scenes at a Ripoff Mail-Order House

  An Embarrassment of Richard's Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Jack Davis

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #90 — November 1993
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Gushing Fourth Edition — 2004
  42–43 sample
• Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy — couch turns into snakes

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

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

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #90 — November 1993
  • Spy Vs. Spy — The Complete Casebook — Antonio Prohias — 2001
  • Spy Vs. Spy — Omnibus — Antonio Prohias — 2011
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• MAD's Reader Opinion Poll — Part II: Movies

  And Survey We Go Again! Dept.

  Written by John Prete / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #95 — September 1994
  45–47
• The Nauseating Nuptial Nightmare

  Tales From the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #90 — November 1993
  48
• Fold-In — What is fast becoming the hottest high stakes card game in the country?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — State License Plate Mottos We'd Like to See

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Color Classics #4 — September 2001
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