Mad 1952 #200 - back issue - $5.00

Don Martin submits a new definition for the phrase "rip-off".

In a parody of the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a possible contact with an alien race has ordinary people acting sillier than usual.

In a parody of the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three over-aged skateboarders try to attract girls.

Examples of how no matter what you do, stress is going to get you.

Examination of how people flock to, or from, fads.

Graduation pictures taken by film auteurs Busby Berkeley, Federico Fellini, Sam Peckinpah, Cecil B. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, John Ford, Mel Brooks and Steven Spielberg.

Veteran comic strip characters try the Garry Trudeau way of comedy.

Mad interviews popular college circuit stand-up comedian Carl Carnal.

The Black Spy destroys the White Spy's ship with a specially designed torpedo.

Odds are quoted on how likely discouraging events will happen in one's life.

Examples of how quotes are taken out of context or dressed up to change their meaning.

Depicting the act that led to various disastrous outcomes.

In a parody of "Donny and Marie," a pair of overbearingly cute singers host a variety show.

How a rock singer gets his mane of curly hair.

It could consume an entire continent.

A princess finds she has competition for her prince.

• Rip-Off - This cartoon appears in the letters page.
• Drawn Out Dramas - Cartoons drawn into the margins of random pages.
• Mad's College Concert Comic of the Year - "Carl Carnal" is a thinly veiled parody of comedian George Carlin.
• What Volatile Ingredients - - Now Being Formulated - - are Sure to Cause Future Catastrophes? - Inside back cover.
• The Frog Prince IV - Back cover.