Mad 1952 #68 - reader copy - $5.00

Two men dressed as Santa get into a huge argument.

Parody of Alpine cigarette print ads; An Alpine cigarette can ease the irritating effects of constant bombardment from television cigarette ads.

A viewer surfs between the three options on late night television: "Hamlet", a monster movie or The Tonight Show with Jack Paar.

A man races to make an appointment, but every means of transportation he uses breaks in half.

If celebrities had never become celebrities.

Series of Christmas-based humorous situations.

A peek in Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's wallet.

Famous poems altered to appeal to the construction industry.

Various comic strip characters meet for a Christmas party.

Parody of magazine beer ads.

Interpretations of slang terms endemic to various professions.

A Soviet-style military officer plays cruel tricks on people.

Examples of people stretching the truth.

Two Soviet scientists combine the "secret ingredients" in various household products into an efficient rocket fuel.

Various fathers try to explain their jobs to their children.

An overweight woman attempts to ride a narrow escalator.

Parody of the film "The Guns of Navarone".

Parody of milk print ads.

On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• Who Put the Men in Mental Breakdown? - Inside front cover.
• Tovarich - These are reprints of some of Antonio Prohias's anti-communist cartoons which ran in the Cuban newspaper Prensa Libre.
• What Do You Do For a Living, Daddy? - Mad Publisher William Gaines has a cameo as one of the fathers.
• - Back cover.