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Volume 1 (#1-10, 1952-1954)

Issue	Cover Date	Vital Features and Notes
Mad #1	Oct.-Nov. 1952	William M. Gaines founds the Mad comic book, installing Harvey Kurtzman as the editor-in-chief and de facto writer/layout designer, Jack Davis, Will Elder, John Severin, and Wally Wood as staff artists, with Jerry DeFuccio and Al Feldstein as associate editors, and Marie Severin serving as the colorist Published on July 10, 1952 Cover: "It's Melvin!" (Kurtzman) Mad Mumblings (Greetings to the Mad reader) Hoohah! (Davis art) Blobs! (Wood art) Ganefs! (Elder art) Varmint! (Severin art) Stories by Jerry DeFuccio: Enter Cosmo McMoon! and Crow Vadis?
Mad #2	Dec. 1952-Jan. 1953	Cover: Hex (Evil eye) (Jack Davis) Hex! (Davis) Melvin! (Severin) Gookum! (Wood) Mole! (Elder) Stories by Jerry DeFuccio: Lady-in-Mascara and Calling Cosmo McMoon!
Mad #3	Jan.-Feb. 1953	Cover: Vampires (Harvey Kurtzman) Mad Mumblings (reactions to the first issue) Dragged Net! (Elder) Sheik of Araby! (Severin) V-Vampires! (Wood) Lone Stranger! (Davis) Stories by Jerry DeFuccio: Rookie Gladiator and The Dandelion Caper
Mad #4	April-May 1953	Cover: Shadow ("What makes you think anyone wants to kill me?") (Harvey Kurtzman) Mad Mumblings Superduperman! (Wood) Flob was a Slob! (Davis) Robin Hood! (Severin) Shadow! (Elder) Stories by Jerry DeFuccio: The Parole and Let's Deplore Your Mind
Mad #5	June-July 1953	Copies of this issue are rare, due to its quick selling-out and subsequent withdrawal from circulation due to controversy caused from material printed in the fictional biography of William M. Gaines on the inside front cover. Cover: Kane Keen (Will Elder) Outer Sanctum! (Elder) Black and Blue Hawks! (Wood) Miltie of the Mounties! (Severin) Kane Keen! (Davis) Story by Jerry DeFuccio: Exam Mad Mumblings
Mad #6	Aug.-Sept. 1953	Cover: Ping Pong (Harvey Kurtzman) Teddy and the Pirates! (Wood) Melvin of the Apes! (Severin) Casey at the Bat! (Davis) Ping Pong! (Elder) Story by Jerry DeFuccio: Hevo the Great Mad Mumblings
Mad #7	Oct.-Nov. 1953	Cover: Shermlock Shomes (Harvey Kurtzman) Shermlock Shomes! (Elder) Treasure Island! (Severin) Hey Look! (Kurtzman) Smilin' Melvin! (Wood) Operation Under-the-Ground: Chapter One (DeFuccio) Mad Mumblings
Mad #8	Dec. 1953-Jan. 1954	Cover: Frank N. Stein (Harvey Kurtzman) Frank N. Stein! (Elder) Lone Stranger Rides Again! (Davis) Hey Look! (Kurtzman) Batboy and Rubin! (Wood) Operation Under-the-Ground: Chapter Two (DeFuccio) Mad Mumblings
Mad #9	March 1954	Cover: Hah! Noon! (Harvey Kurtzman) Little Orphan Melvin! (Wood) The Raven! (Elder) Bop Jokes! (Severin) Hah! Noon! (Davis) Operation Under-the-Ground: Chapter Three (DeFuccio) Mad Mumblings Ad for Panic
Mad #10	April 1954	Debut of Basil Wolverton Cover: The Face upon the Floor (Harvey Kurtzman, with text from Hugh Antoine d'Arcy poem) G.I. Shmoe! (Wood) Shane (film)|Sane!]] (Severin) The Face upon the Floor! (Davis with Wolverton) Woman Wonder! (Elder) Operation Under-the-Ground: Chapter 35 (Kurtzman) Mad Mumblings

Volume 2 (#11-23, 1954-1955)

Issue	Cover Date	Vital Features and Notes
Mad #11	May 1954	Cover: Beautiful Girl of the Month Reads Mad (Basil Wolverton) Flesh Garden! (Wood) Mad Reader! (Wolverton) Murder the Husband! Murder the Story! (Mad edit of Crime SuspenStories story originally by Feldstein and Davis) Dragged Net! (Elder) Operation Under-the-Ground: Chapter 87 (Kurtzman) Mad Mumblings
Mad #12	June 1954	Debut of Bernard Krigstein Cover: Special "High-class intellectual" design (Harvey Kurtzman) Starchie! (Elder) From Eternity Back to Here! (Krigstein) 3-Dimensions! (Wood) Mark Trade! (Davis) Operation Under-the-Ground: Chapter 6 (Kurtzman) Mad Mumblings
Mad #13	July 1954	The Smallest Cover in the World! (Harvey Kurtzman) Prince Violent! (Wood) Book! Movie! (Davis) Baby Quips! (Kurtzman parody of baby photo caption books) Robinson Crusoe! (Elder) Mad Mumblings
Mad #14	August 1954	Debut of Russ Heath Cover: The Mona Lisa reading Mad (Harvey Kurtzman) Manduck the Magician! (Elder) Movie...Ads! (Wood) The Countynental! (Davis) Plastic Sam! (Heath) Mad Mumblings
Mad #15	September 1954	Cover: "A MAD tea party" (from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Gasoline Valley! (Elder) Pot-Shot Pete (early comic of Harvey Kurtzman) Wild ½! (Wood) Captain TVideo! (Davis) Mad Mumblings
Mad #16	October 1954	Cover: Underground newspaper style (Harvey Kurtzman) Shermlock Shomes in The Hound of the Basketballs! (Elder) Newspapers! (Davis) Restaurant! (Elder) The Wreck of the Hesperus (Wood) Mad Mumblings
Mad #17	November 1954	Cover: "This issue is going to change your whole viewpoint of MAD...mainly because the insides are upside-down!" (Harvey Kurtzman) Bringing Back Father! (Elder-Krigstein) What's My Shine! (Davis) Meet Miss Potgold! (Elder-Wolverton) Julius Caesar! (Wood) Mad Mumblings
Mad #18	December 1954	Example "You draw the cover, gang!" (Harvey Kurtzman) Alice in Wonderland! (Davis) Howdy Dooit! (Elder) Pot-Shot Pete (further early Kurtzman comics) Stalag 18! (Wood) Mad Mumblings
Mad #19	January 1955	Cover: Racing form design (Harvey Kurtzman) Mickey Rodent! (Elder) Supermarkets! (Davis) Puzzle Pages! (Elder) The Cane Mutiny! (Wood) Mad Mumblings
Mad #20	February 1955	Cover: Composition book cover designed to sneak into class (Harvey Kurtzman) Katchandhammer Kids! (Elder) Sound Effects! (Wood) Paul Revere's Ride! (Davis) Cowboy! (Davis) Bop Dictionary Mad Mumblings
Mad #21	March 1955	Cover: Supply catalog design (Harvey Kurtzman) This cover marks the unofficial first appearance of Alfred E. Neuman on the cover of Mad. Poopeye! (Elder) Slow Motion! (Davis) Comic Book Ads! (Elder) Under the Waterfront! Mad Mumblings
Mad #22	April 1955	Cover: Special Art Issue with altered Pablo Picasso painting by Will Elder and Harvey Kurtzman Bill "Chicken-Fat" Elder: The Child! Bill "Chicken-Fat" Elder: The Boy! Bill "Chicken-Fat" Elder: The Young Artist! Bill "Chicken-Fat" Elder: The Commercial Artist! Bill "Chicken-Fat" Elder: The Old Pro! (containing reprint of Mole! from Mad #2) Bill "Chicken-Fat" Elder: Senility! Mad Mumblings
Mad #23	May 1955	Cover: Think (Harvey Kurtzman) Gopo Gossum! (Wood) Scenes We'd Like to See! (Davis) Ripup's Believe it or Don't! (Wood) The Barefoot Nocountessa! (Davis) Mad Mumblings Ad for Mad's first paperback collection, The Mad Reader Announcement of Mad's expansion to a 25-cent magazine

Volume 3 (#24-30, 1955-1956)

Issue	Cover Date	Vital Features and Notes
Mad #24	July 1955	Mad switches to a black-and-white magazine, upping the content from 36 to 68 pages. The price goes up to 25 cents, is released sporadically instead of monthly, and no longer carries real advertisements, instead running parodies of advertisements Cover: An extremely important message from the editors (Please buy this magazine!) Debut of John Putnam and Ernie Kovacs Is a Trip to the Moon Possible? (Kurtzman/Wood) Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Soup (Ira Wallach/Bernard Krigstein) Wrestling (Kurtzman/Davis) Comics Digest (Kurtzman/Elder) Classy Crimes #138: Who put the Strichnine in Mrs. Murphy's Husband? (Bernard Shir-Cliff/Elder) Anyone Can Build This Coffee Table (Kurtzman/Davis) Is This Your Life? (Kurtzman/Elder) Tom Swiffft and His Electric Ping-Pong Ball (Kovacs/Elder) A Guide for Future Job Hunters (Roger Price) Vera's Cruz (Kurtzman/Wood) Pictoquiz (Kurtzman/Davis) Ad parodies for Bofforin, Glugg! Ironmaidenfit, Mmboy Cream, Anasprin, Pund's Cold Cream, Bind-Aig Plastic Strips and Jell-Y
Mad #25	September 1955	Cover: Mad Fearlessly Exposes The Tweed Ring Debut of Al Jaffee Radiodetectiveland (Kurtzman/Elder) The Jack E. Glisten Story (Kurtzman/Wood) Very Square Dance (Steve Allen) Baseball...Science or Skill? (Jaffee/Davis) Anyone for Wrist Slashing? (Stan Freberg/Wood) Confidential Information (Kurtzman/Elder) The Sleeping Beauty (Ernie Kovacs and Gustave Dore) Mad Awards for Television Commercials (Kurtzman/Elder) Newspaper Columns (Bernard Shir-Cliff) They Built Their Dream House Single-Handed (Kurtzman/Wood) The Gettysburg Address - Grammatically Corrected (Doodles Weaver) The Stark Club (Kurtzman/Davis) Advice to Young Men on How to Get in the Army (Roger Price) The Blackboard Jumble (Kurtzman/Wood) Ad parodies for Ipuna, Leave Me or Me Leave, Fozless Fooznick for Crazyroot, NDDDS Tablets, Kennnt Cigarettes and Ol' Craw Whiskey
Mad #26	November 1955	Debut of Harry Purvis Cover: Mad's Version of the Satellite the Size of a Basketball (Wally Wood) Sure-Fire Dialogue (Purvis) The Dave Garrowunway Show (Kurtzman/Davis) When Advertisers Completely Exploit the Davy Crockett Trend (Kurtzman/Elder) How Different Types of Magazines Write an Article (Kurtzman/Elder) The Conquest of Tillie's Lookout (Ira Wallach/Wood) Let's Go for a Ride! (Kurtzman/Davis) The Strange Cruise of the Buttercup (David W. Donaldson) The Prodigious (Kurtzman/Wood) At Home with Lorelei Latour (Ernie Kovacs, with Wally Wood art from Gustave Dore) The Seven Itchy Years (Kurtzman/Elder) Roger Price on Criminal Justice A Guide to Better Understanding the Fine Old Art of Boxing (Jaffee/Davis) My Secret - Benn Ogen Reveals His Mystery Gimmick (Jaffee) Tense Tycoons and Lucky Bucks - Mad's Business Novel starring Crash McCool (Bernard Shir-Cliff/Bernard Krigstein) Ad parodies for Armstronger Tire, Sanofranization, and Canadian Clubbed
Mad #27	April 1956	Cover: New Year's 1956 Collage (Jack Davis) Cartoon Digest (Kurtzman/Elder) Scenes We'd Like to See (Phil Interlandi) How to Be Smart (Kurtzman/Wood) A Sea Chanty (Abe Burrows/Russ Heath) The Ed Suvillan Show (Kurtzman/Elder) Uninterrupted Melody (Stan Freberg/Wood) A Lad and a Lion (Jaffee/Davis) Auto Safety Features (Jaffee) Death in the Afternoon|The Brave Dogs (Roger Price) Ulysses (Kurtzman/Wood) Nightwatch (Arnold Hayne/Elder) Rare Old Cartoons by Caran d'Ache A Post Season Look at Some Startling Events in Football (Jaffee/Davis) Ad parodies for Marlbrando Tattoo Needles, Beautydreamy, and Beer Belongs Enjoy It (plus real ad for 15-cent Alfred E. Neuman portrait)
Mad #28	July 1956	Final issue edited by Harvey Kurtzman Cover: Spring Issue (Wood) He Rose Tattooed (Kurtzman/Wood) Stamps (Jaffee) The Super Guided Missile (Kurtzman/Jaffee-Wood-Davis) Childrens' Primer (Kurtzman/Elder) Comic Books (reprint of Black and Blue Hawks! from issue #6) Young Men's Spring Fashions for 1956 (Kurtzman/Davis) Your Income Tax (Bernard Shir-Cliff/Davis) Collegiate Whimsey (cartoon reprints from college humor publications around the country) The Life of General Homer T. 'Old Hominy' Shotbag (Ed Fisher) Talk (Kurtzman/Wood) Rare Old Cartoons featuring Henry Mayo Bateman Million Dollar Horse - Naushea's Story (Jaffee/Davis) Book Review - The Search for Bridey O'Murphy (Bernard Wiseman) Medical (Kurtzman/Elder) Paper Doll Page (Kurtzman/Elder) The Heathy Girl (Kurtzman/Russ Heath) Ad parodies of Cotton Pick, Best Toothpaste Frammistan (Milestones in Tooth Decay)
Mad #29	September 1956	Cover: 3-Ring Circus of Fun (Wally Wood) First issues of Al Feldstein as editor and Don Martin as a contributor Jerry DeFuccio resumes associate editor position (credited under "Continuity") Jack Kamen's only issue. Free Fall Ferris (DeFuccio-Feldstein/Wood) Gringo (Ernie Kovacs/Elder) New Designs in Television Sets (Kurtzman-Feldstein/Davis) A Mad Dining Etiquette Quiz (Feldstein/Wolverton) The Man in the Soot-Gray Flannel (Kurtzman-Feldstein/Wood) Camp (Kurtzman-Feldstein/Davis) The Underworld Around Us (Bernard Wiseman) How to Throw a Party for 17-Year-Olds (Kurtzman-Feldstein/Davis) Alfred E. Neuman Answers Your Questions (Feldstein/Martin) Scenes We'd Like to See (Interlandi) Ad parodies of Ethel gasoline, Severolet, and Padst Red Ribbon
Mad #30	December 1956	Cover: Alfred E. Neuman: Write-in Candidate for President says "What - Me Worry?" (Norman Mingo) First issues of Norman Mingo, Bob Clarke, and Nick Meglin Elvis Pelvis (Kurtzman-Feldstein/Davis) Gunsmoked (Kurtzman-Feldstein/Davis) Bowling (Meglin-Feldstein/Davis) Morbid Dick (Feldstein/Wood) Pulp Magazines (James Blish/Elder) A Saw Screams at Midnight (G.A. Mills, featuring Carl Reiner) Mad Merit Badges (Kurtzman-Feldstein/Davis) Walt Dizzy Presents Dizzyland (Feldstein/Wood) Back Cover: Convention crowd (Continuation of front cover, by Norman Mingo and Jack Davis) Collegiate Whimsey Scenes We'd Like to See (Interlandi) Alfred E. Neuman Answers Your Questions (Feldstein/Martin) Ad parody: B.F. Goodnrich Autoless Tires

Volume 4 (#31-37, 1957)

Issue	Cover Date	Vital Features and Notes
Mad #31	February 1957	Cover: Alfred on Mount Rushmore (Norman Mingo) First issues of Orson Bean, Alen Robin, and Frank Kelly Freas Debut of Nick Meglin as associate editor (credited under "Ideas") The New Marylin Marone (Feldstein/Wood) Field and Scream Magazine (Kurtzman-Feldstein/Davis) Why Percy Dovetonsils Writes Poetry (Kovacs/Davis) A Selection of Mad Greeting Cards (Feldstein-Meglin/Clarke) Al "Jazzbo" Collins discusses What's all this Jazz about Jazz? (Collins/Wood) Mad's Ink Blot Test (Feldstein/Freas) Why the 35 MM Replaced the Box Camera (Arnie Rosen/Clarke) Orson Bean's Family Album (Bean-Robin/Davis) Back Cover: Mad Travel Stickers (Feldstein/Clarke) What They're Saying Around the Solar System (Basil Wolverton) Future TV Ads (Don Martin) More Scenes We'd Like to See (Interlandi)
Mad #32	April 1957	Cover: Alfred on an Egyptian tomb (Norman Mingo, idea by Nick Meglin) First issues of Paul Laikin, Joe Orlando, George Woodbridge, and Mort Drucker Only issue of Jean Shepherd The Steve Allan Story (Feldstein/Clarke) It's Gonna Be a Mad Mad Year! (DeFuccio-Feldstein/Wood) Orson Bean on Making a Paper Eucalyptus Tree (Bean/Wood) Women, as the Magazines See Them, and as They Are (Meglin-Feldstein/Freas) What's Happened to Sports Magazines? (Feldstein/Clarke) Tom Lehrer Sings The Wild West is Where I Want to Be (Lehrer/Woodbridge) "The Night People" vs. "Creeping Meatballism" (Jean Shepherd/Wood) The Mad Dating Technique (Feldstein/Clarke) Back Cover: Mad Record Labels (Feldstein/Wood) The Bad Seat (Laikin/Clarke) Mad's Advertising Award for the Most Nauseating Television Commercial of 1956 - The Rolly Cigarette Commercial (Robin/Drucker) Henry Mayo Bateman cartoon Nansy, as Interpreted by... (Feldstein/Wood) Scenes We'd Like to See (Joe Orlando) Big Big Story and a Future TV Ad (Martin)
Mad #33	June 1957	Cover: Another Spring Issue (Norman Mingo) First issue of Frank Jacobs and Henry Morgan Only issue of Eddie Lawrence and Donald Knuth Baseball's Hall of Shame (Jacobs/Orlando) Titles Don't Match the Action in Foreign Movies (Feldstein/Wood) Ernie Kovacs' Strangely Believe It! (Kovacs/Wood) Vending Machines of the Future (Jacobs/Clarke) The Truth About Cowboys (Morgan/Wood) The Dee Jay's Old Philosopher (Lawrence/Drucker) Hollywood is Ruining Marlin Brando (Feldstein/Clarke) High School Dance (Feldstein/Clarke) Back Cover: Reader's Disgust (Feldstein/Orlando) The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures (Donald Knuth) Why I Left the Army and Became a Civilian (Jacobs/Woodbridge) Scenes We'd Like to See (Orlando) The Unfortunate Part of Feeding Pigeons Homemade Popcorn and Another Future TV Ad (Martin)
Mad #34	August 1957	Front Cover: Fireworks (Norman Mingo) First issues of Dave Berg, E. Nelson Bridwell and Bob and Ray (material ghostwritten by Tom Koch) Mad Coats of Arms (Jacobs/Freas) Wedding Album (Feldstein/Wood) Mr Science (Bob and Ray/Drucker) Future Drive-Ins (Feldstein/Clarke) Modern Furniture (Berg) Baseball is Ruining Our Children (DeFuccio-Feldstein/Wood) Two Chinese Fellas in an American Restaurant (Orson Bean and Phil Green/Wood) TV Guise (Laikin/Clarke) Back Cover: Mad Picture Postcards (Bob Clarke) Products for TV Commercials, Inc. (Bridwell/Clarke) Collegiate Whimsey Scenes We'd Like to See (Orlando) Another Future TV Ad (Martin)
Mad #35	October 1957	Special 5th Anniversary Issue (Norman Mingo) First issues of Paul Krassner and Albert Meglin If Comic Strip Characters Answered Those Little Ads (Krassner/Wood) Backyard Barbecue (Berg) The Hunting Song (Tom Lehrer/Woodbridge) Mad's Up to Date Sky (Jacobs/Clarke) How to Read Your Palm (Jacobs/Reed Crandall) Mad Eating Utensils (Feldstein-Meglin/Orlando) House to House (Bob and Ray/Drucker) Tennessee Williamsburg's [[Cinderella|Sin-Doll Ella (Albert Meglin/Wood) Front and Back Cover: Anniversary Dinner (with hundreds of Madison Avenue advertising mascots by Norman Mingo) Mad's College Entrance Exam (Laikin) Scenes We'd Like to See (Orlando) The Seaside Incident and Another Future TV Ad (Martin) Ad parody for Volitalis
Mad #36	December 1957	Cover: See Evil, Speak Evil, Hear Evil (Norman Mingo) Only issue of Wally Cox TV Movies with Built-In Commercials (Jacobs/Wood) My Frien' Dufo (Cox/Woodbridge) Parking Meters (Berg) Paul Sturdley's Secret File (Bob and Ray/Drucker) Raw Guts - The Magazine for He-Men (Laikin/Clarke) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral|O.K.! Gunfight at the Corral! (Feldstein/Woodbridge) Henry Morgan Tells the Story of the 12 Bottles (Morgan/Wood) A Martian Field Guide to U.S. Wildlife (Jacobs/Orlando) Back Cover: Alfred E. Neuman Halloween Mask Mad Visits Corny Island (Wally Wood panorama) Basil Wolverton's Mad Hats Bomb Song Hits (Feldstein) The Children's Hour (poem)|The Children's Hour (Martin) Scenes We'd Like to See (Orlando) Ad parody for Morris Philip
Mad #37	January 1958	Cover: Alfred as New Year's Baby 1959 (Norman Mingo) Only issues of Ron Goulart and George Mandel Realistic Comic Book Heroes (Goulart/Drucker) Mad's Xmas Toys (Krassner/Clarke) Ernie Kovacs' Strangely Believe It! (Kovacs/Wood, 3 installments) Report to Russia (Berg/Wood) Ambiguous Signs, Inc. (Bob and Ray/Drucker) Mad's Xmas Games (Albert Meglin/Clarke) Mad Goes Hi-Fi (Jacobs/Clarke) Orson Bean's Civil War (Bean/Woodbridge) Shakespeare, Up-to-Date (Laikin) How to Wage Peace (Berg) See Them Now (Kovacs/Woodbridge) Scenes We'd Like to See (Mandel/Orlando) Three Strange Tales by Don Martin Ad parodies for Kings Man and Winsten (back cover)

Volume 5 (#38-44, 1958)

Issue	Cover Date	Vital Features and Notes
Mad #38	March 1958	Special Issue: A Chimpanzee Painted This Cover First issue of Tom Koch as a contributor Mad's Up-to-Date Alphabet Book (Krassner/Clarke) Mike Malice Interviews Mother Goose (Berg/Drucker) Outstanding Americans: Arthur A. Freen (Martin) Ernie Kovacs' Strangely Believe It! (Kovacs/Wood, 2 installments) Babysitting May Ruin Our Nation (Berg) Mad Looks at Endorsements (Jacobs/Clarke) The National Bannister Sliding Contests (Bob and Ray/Drucker) Bitter Homes and Gardens (Koch/Wood) Blood, Guts, a Roscoe, and You by Mickey Spitoon (Koch/Woodbridge) Mad Wallpaper (Albert Meglin/Clarke) TV Scenes We'd Like to See (Bridwell/Orlando) Ad parodies for Vilecream and Barker 61 Capillary Cigar (back cover)
Mad #39	May 1958	Special April Fool Issue Front and Inside Front Covers: Alfred E. Neuman Collage of 28 Celebrities, with Key (C.C. Beall, Jr.) How to Make America's Kids Science-Conscious The Suburbs are on Their Way Out (Berg) Sneaky Advertising (Krassner/Clarke) Opera Record Albums Commemorative Stamps (Koch/Woodbridge) Big, Big Earth (Bob and Ray/Drucker) Party Games (Jacobs/Wood) The Saturday Evening Pest (Koch/Clarke)
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