Mad 1952 #44 - reader copy - $6.00

Phony ad for Culvert Reserve Whiskey.

House ad for hardcover book from Crown Publishers.

House ad for a MAD paperback book.

Letters of comment, mostly about issue #42.

House ad for pinups suitable for framing.

House ad for MAD subscriptions.

Showing the larger boring scenes that exciting movie previews are supposedly taken from.

Ads we might see if countries advertised like other products, instead of communicating their ideologies and accomplishments as they currently do.

Telethon to pump up the number of highway fatalities to meet the numbers announced before the holiday.

Possible kids' editions of popular magazines, including: Junior Confessions, Tiny Homes and Gardens; Sports Infantile; Truant; Tyke; Pedal Trend; The Saturday Evening Tot.

3 cartoons of the dangers of summer.

Satirical look at the sport of basketball.

Famous ancestors of Alfred, with very brief biographical notes and dates of birth and death.

Thoughts on what could happen if the concept of signals were extended to everyday life events.

Phony Christmas cards from celebrities to other celebrities.

Useless explanations of various types of graphs.

When the villagers finally corner the monster he responds by signing autographs.

Various methods of inducing sleep.

Possible long book titles based on the recent success of book by Robert Paul Smith.

Showing how the electrical company supposedly controls refrigerator lights and other appliance lights from a central headquarters.

Fictitious company magazine for North American Veeblefetzer Co.

Two cartoons: a toddler unwraps his older brother instead of the present, and a woman's hair turns into a New Year's noisemaker.

House ad for t-shirts with Alfred E. Neuman on front.

Items once associated with a celebrity, but no longer needed.

• Alfred E. Neuman Gets A Gift From... - Back cover is same window scene, but from Alfred's viewpoint. The logo of the soft drink Moxie appears in about every other article.
• Clear Heads Agree Culvert D.T.'s Are Better - Parody of ad for Calvert Reserve Whiskey.
• Departments - Art is excerpts from this issue.
• Random Samplings of Reader Mail - Two photos of Feldstein; one is from house ad for MAD tee shirts in MAD #42. Letters from: Harold Chamberlain, Cronley's Barber Shop, Knut Schaad, Jonathan Williams, Jerry Bourasaw, Barbara Nace, Bjorn Petersson, Johnny Lunsford, Arthur Marchino, Howard Hoffman, Leslie Naman
• A Christmas Gift Suggestion - Art matches art from "Alfred E. Neuman's Family Tree " article in this issue.
• The National Safety Council's Holiday-Weekend Telethon - One character in cameo appears to be Scribbly Jibbet.
• Basketball - Not a single black player is depicted.
• You'll Be "Chairman of The Board" In Your MAD T-Shirt - On inside back cover.
• Some Items "For Sale - Cheap" - Appear in the margins of 20 pages of the issue.
• untitled - The front cover as seen from Alfred's viewpoint. Moxie Cowznofsky is named in letters column of issue #48.