Mad 1952 #100 - reader copy - $4.00

Famous novels and plays like Moby Dick, Julius Caesar, A Tale of Two Cities and Tarzan of the Apes are turned into Broadway Musicals.

Making new consumer products out of old fad items, such as hula hoops and coon skin caps.

The Black Spy fools the White Spy with a fake submarine.

In a parody of the TV series "Ozzie and Harriet," the most boring, out of touch family in history is profiled.

Common terms are turned into anthropomorphized animals.

Sleep and sleeping patterns are satirized.

Arnie Kogen contrasts the blind date with various less than desirable situations, while Sergio Aragones illustrates the article with various blind date disasters.

A woman conducts a tour of New York City and all of the odd characters who live there.

Parody of comic book activity pages; Play games and solve puzzles that make no sense.

Parody of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not comic panel; More examples of odd people and unusual occurrences.

A profile of a toy manufacturer who makes products of questionable quality.

The White Spy tricks the Black Spy with a rubber solution.

In a parody of the poem "The Song of Hiawatha," a native American gets lost on his journey to a southern college campus and is recruited to play football for a school in northern Minnesota.

In a parody of the "older actress slasher film" genre, a woman travels to a creepy mansion and meets the odd people who live with her odder cousin.

A man has a unique way to combat subway muggers.

A special wish from the Mad magazine staff.

A lighthouse with a burned out lamp is replaced.

On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• Drawn Out Dramas - Cartoons drawn into the margins of random pages.
• Mad's Puzzle Page - The caricature of Bob Hope in the bottom right corner of page 2 was a paste up done by Mort Drucker.
• A Vital Message From the Staff of Mad - Inside back cover.
• The Replacement - Back cover.