Mad 1952 #504 - back issue - $3.00
Alfred uses an iPad with an image of a newspaper as a bird cage liner.
Ad for chewing gum from Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.
Letters, photos and fan art, including Celebrity Snaps.
Ad for Spy vs. Spy merchandise.
Various short satires of pop culture.
Why subscribing to MAD is better than being a Viking.
House ad for subscriptions.
The pros and cons of using the iPad for various demographic groups.
A Toyota Camry model arrives and takes the other toys for a wild ride. After a series of crashes, the Camry is called to Washington, DC and the other toys go along to defend it in Congressional hearings.
Justin Bieber is paired with other celebrities and objects with similar sounding names and comes up a loser against nearly all of them, and only a tie with the remainder.
Things that could have gone wrong in the Twilight movie series.
Rationalizations of lying, cheating and bribery.
Satire on the A-Team concept, with conservative talk show hosts who "Love It When A Rant Comes Together."
Fake Tweets from Mr. T about the recent A-Team movie, sent via Twittajabba.
Ridiculous things people could focus on that remind them or their ex-partner.
Parody of deodorant ad and of Jesse James' Neo-Nazi salute.
A collection of comic strips.
Parody of the KFC Double Down sandwich.
Fake speaking engagement contract for Sarah Palin, listing ridiculous demands.
In the first story, the Black Spy is captured by the "3D" letters falling from a theater marquee. In the second story, the White Spy has his fingers snapped by a mouse trap that looks like a cell phone.
Annoying things about cell phone useage.
Ad for various MAD books.
A parody webpage from bookseller Scamazon.com, featuring reviews, excerpts, and other information on the book "1001 Escalators You Must Ride Before You Die."
Parody of a Petco pet store ad.
A parody of the Archie Marries Betty / Veronica stories, featuring a third way, with a surprise ending not indicated by the title.
Two priests alternately confess pedophillic sins to each other...and are absolved.
Answer is the one on Jersey Shore.
Ad for game from Square Enix Ltd., Eidos, Inc. and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
First bi-monthly issue.
- Everyone Experiences It Differently - inside front cover
- Departments - Art is excerpts from various articles in this issue. The feature "Release The Wise-Crackin; Department" is phony and does not actually appear in the issue.
- Random Samplings of Reader Mail - Notes that the April 7, 2010 episode of Jeopardy! included an entire board with all answers referring to MAD Magazine.
- Great Gear And Gifts! - On page 2 of letters pages.
- - on bottom of page 4 of letters pages
- The Fundalini Pages - Additional features are: Latest Classified Ads; Signs You're Too Fat To Travel On A Commercial Airline; Spotlight On American Universities; Least Popular Summer Camps; New Problems Popping Up In Toyotas.
- An Important Message From MAD's Director of Business & Development - House ad for MAD subscriptions; #500 in a series. Jeffrey is wearing a viking costume. Between pages 3-4 of Fundalini Pages.
- Subscribe To MAD And Own A Piece of MAD History! - Cover art (without text) from MAD #96 is reproduced as part of ad.
- Bieber Versus... - Objects depicted are a beeper, a BMW car, butter, and the Blue Boy painting.
- The A-Hole Team - Indexer could not recognize 4th Fox TV show host.
- Mr. T Tweets While Watching The A-Team - Uses movie stills for most photos.
- Spy Vs. Spy - 2 cartoons
- The MAD Vault 1992 - Single panels, pages and covers from previous issues.
- What Situation Has Many Americas Sickened And Disgusted? - Reference is to the character "The Situation" on a TV show. Inside back cover.
- Drawn Out Dramas - Gags appear on 13 different pages.
- Game Of The Year Edition - back cover
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