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Bill Elder

Artist, Cover Artist and Illustrator

Country: USA

Born: 22nd September 1921, Bronx, New York, USA

Died: 14th May 2008, Rockleigh, New Jersey, USA

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MAD Magazine • USA • New York

MAD Magazine #1 October 1952

Department: Crime Dept.
Story: Ganefs!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severin

MAD Magazine #2 December 1952

Department: Crime Dept.
Story: Mole!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severin

MAD Magazine #3 January 1953

Story: Dragged Net!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severin

MAD Magazine #4 January 1953

Department: Crime Dept.
Story: Shadow!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #5 June 1953

Cover Artist (with Marie Severin)

Cover: Kane Keen
Artist with Marie Severin

Department: Horror Dept.
Story: Outer Sanctum!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #6 August 1953

Department: Horror Dept.
Story: Ping Pong!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #7 September 1953

Story: If You Haven't Been Able To Find 'MAD' On Your Local Newsstand...
Artist

Department: Crime Dept.; Shermlock Shomes
Story: Shermlock Shomes!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severin

MAD Magazine #8 December 1953

Department: Terror Dept.
Story: Frank N. Stein!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severin

MAD Magazine #9 February 1954

Department: Classical Type Comics Dept.
Story: The Raven
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Edgar Allan Poe, Marie Severin

MAD Magazine #10 April 1954

Department: Heroine Worship Dept.
Story: Woman Wonder!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #11 May 1954

Department: Crime Dept.
Story: Dragged Net!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severin

MAD Magazine #12 June 1954

Department: Panic
Story: Stoppit!
Artist

Department: Teen-Age Comics Dept.
Story: Starchie
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #13 July 1954

Department: Panic
Story: Stoppit!
Artist

Department: Classic-Type Comics Dept.
Story: Robinson Crusoe!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #14

Department: Newspaper Cartoon Dept.
Story: Manduck the Magician
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #15 September 1954

Story: Proof...Of 8 Brands Tested, Panic is best imitation of MAD
Artist

Department: Newspaper Comics Dept.
Story: Gasoline Valley!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #16

Department: Panic; Mad
Story: Proof... of 8 Brands Tested, Panic is Best Imitation of MAD
Artist

Department: Crime Dept.
Story: Shermlock Shomes in the Hound of The Basketballs!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

Department: The American Scene Dept.
Story: Restaurant!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #17 November 1954

Department: Newspaper Cartoon Dept.
Story: Bringing Back Father!
Artist with Bernard Krigstein, Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #18 December 1954

Department: T.V. Dept.
Story: Howdy Dooit!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #19 January 1955

Department: Panic; Mad
Artist

Department: Animation Dept.
Story: Mickey Rodent!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Filler Dept.
Story: Puzzle Pages!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #20 February 1955

Department: Panic; Mad
Story: No, I Said! You Can't Have My Copy of MAD!
Artist

Department: Newspaper Cartoon Dept.
Story: Katchandhammer Kids!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #21 March 1955

Department: Newspaper Comics Dept.
Story: Poopeye!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Cut Your Own Throat Dept.
Story: Comic Book Ads!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #22 April 1955

Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder
Story: Special Art Issue
Artist

Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
Story: The Child!
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
Story: The Boy!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
Story: The Young Artist!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
Story: The Commercial Artist!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
Story: The Old Pro! [Mole!]
Artist with Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
Story: Senility!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severin

MAD Magazine #24 July 1955

Department: MMboy
Story: Are You Ever Lovely To Love?
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Newspaper Comics Dept.; Brunette; Little Orphan Melvin; Smilin' Melvin; Lil' Ab'r; Dick Tracing; Popcorn; Manduck The Magician
Story: Comics Digest
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Crime Dept.
Story: Classy Crimes #138: Who Put The Strichnine In Mrs. Murphy's Husband?
Artist with Bernard Shir-Cliff

Department: Television Dept.
Story: Is This Your Life?
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Classics Dept.
Story: Tom Swifft And His Electric Ping Pong Ball
Artist with Ernie Kovacs

Department: Rubbaban
Story: Are You Walking Around Like A Human Queston Mark?
Artist

Department: Bind-Aig
Story: Never Before A Bandage That Sticks Like This!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #25 August 1955

Story: What?...You Haven't Tasted New Ipuna?
Artist

Department: Radio Dept.
Story: Radiodetectiveland
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Story: A Stirring Scene To Say The Least From MGMG's "Leave Me Or Leave"!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Confidential Information Dept.
Story: Was George Washington "George"?
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Mad Award Department
Story: MAD Awards...
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Story: Fozless Fooznick
Artist

Story: Banish Body Aroma Problems and Like That
Artist

Story: Your Voice of Wiseness Says Smoke Kennt
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Story: A Picture History of Ol' Craw
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #26 November 1955

Department: Armstronger Tire
Story: Armstronger Tire Knock-Down Punch Socko For Skids!
Artist

Story: Contents
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Davy Crockett Dept.
Story: Davy Crockett Merchandising Ideas
Artist

Department: Confidential Information Dept.
Story: Confidentially
Artist

Department: Movie Dept.
Story: The Seven Itchy Years
Artist

Department: Sanofranized fabrics
Story: Sanofranized
Artist with Thomas Nast

Department: Canadian Clubbed
Story: It's High Adventure
Artist

MAD Magazine #27 April 1956

Cover Artist (with Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman)

Cover: 1956
Artist with Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman

Story: Marlbrando
Artist

Story: Table of Contents
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Newspaper Comics Dept.
Story: Cartoon Digest
Artist

Department: Beautydreamy Matresses
Story: Why Settle for Others When Beautydreamy Balances Drinking Glasses!
Artist

Department: TV Dept.
Story: Ed Suvillan Show
Artist

Department: Radio & TV Dept.
Story: Nightwatch
Artist with Arnold Hayne

Story: What Makes a Glass of Beer Taste So Good?
Artist

MAD Magazine #28 July 1956

Cover: Spring Issue
Artist with Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Billows Cotton Pick
Story: They Wanted To Call It Partners Pick
Artist

Story: Triumph Over Tooth Decay
Artist

Department: Education Dept.
Story: Children's Primer
Artist

Department: Do It Yourself Dept.
Story: Your Income Tax
Artist with Bernard Shir-Cliff

Department: TV Dept.
Story: Medical
Artist

Department: Silly Putty
Story: She'll Love You If You Buy Her a Glob of Silly Putty
Artist

Department: Things To Make & Do Dept.
Story: Paper Doll Page
Artist

MAD Magazine #29 September 1956

Cover Artist (with Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman)

Cover: 3-Ring Circus of Fun
Artist with Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Mad Magazine
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Department: Games Dept.
Story: Gringo
Artist with Ernie Kovacs

Department: Padst Red Ribbon Beer
Story: This One Has the Urp!
Artist with Al Feldstein

MAD Magazine #30 December 1956

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman, Norman Mingo)

Cover: Alfred E. Neuman Says "What - Me Worry?"
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Norman Mingo

Department: Literature Dept.
Story: What's Happened to the...Pulp Magazines?
Artist with James Blish

Department: Alfred E. Neuman
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Al Feldstein, Norman Mingo

MAD Magazine #31 February 1957

Department: Mad Magazine
Story: The MAD Window Test
Artist with Jack Davis

Department: Psychology Dept.
Story: MAD's Ink Blot Test
Artist with Frank Kelly Freas

MAD Magazine #33 June 1957

Department: MAD books
Story: Everything Must Go!!
Artist

MAD Magazine #34 July 1957

Department: MAD books
Story: Now...MAD Pocket-Sized Books Fight Misery Four Ways
Artist

MAD Magazine #35 October 1957

Department: Alfred E. Neuman
Story: Now! In Full Color
Artist with Norman Mingo

MAD Magazine #36 December 1957

Department: Alfred E. Neuman
Story: Now! In Full Color
Artist with Norman Mingo

Department: Mad Magazine
Story: Start Your Day Off Right!
Artist with Larry Maleman

MAD Magazine #37 January 1958

Department: MAD books
Story: Bunk!
Artist with Norman Mingo

MAD Magazine #41 September 1958

Department: MAD For Keeps
Story: If You're A New Fan You're Lucky!
Artist

Department: Free-Loading Dept.
Story: How To Put Out An Imitation of MAD
Artist with Jack Davis, Norman Mingo, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #43 December 1958

Department: MAD Magazine
Story: Do Your Christmas Shopping Early
Artist

MAD Magazine #53 March 1960

Department: Alfred E. Neuman bust
Story: Now...The Chislers At MAD Present A Real Bust!
Artist with Lester Krauss

MAD Magazine #54 April 1960

Department: Alfred E. Neuman bust
Story: Here's Your Chance To Get A Head
Artist with Lester Krauss

MAD Magazine #256 July 1985

Department: A Face Only A Mugger Could... Department
Story: Mad's Goetz Mask
Idea with Harvey Kurtzman, Allan Tannenbaum

MAD Magazine #258 October 1985

Back Cover: The Weinburger
Artist with Al Jaffee, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #259 December 1985

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman)

Front Cover
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #260 January 1986

Department: Frey the Unfriendly Skies Department
Story: Traveler's Blues
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Frank Jacobs

MAD Magazine #261 March 1986

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman)

Front Cover
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

Story: Camouflage Tricks of City Animals
Artist with Rurik Tyler, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #263 June 1986

Back Cover: The Day AT&T Went Too Far
Artist with John Prete, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #265 September 1986

Department: Women's Glib Department
Story: How To Pick Up Guys
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Arnie Kogen

Back Cover: Garbage Pail Adults
Artist with John Ficarra, Charlie Kadau, Nick Meglin, Sara Fowler, Harvey Kurtzman, Joe Raiola

MAD Magazine #266 October 1986

Department: DICK DePARTMENT
Story: We'll Make A Fortune
Artist with Dick DeBartolo, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #267 December 1986

Department: E.S.P.-U Department
Story: Mad's Fearless Forecast For the Upcoming TV Season
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Barry Liebmann

MAD Magazine #268 January 1987

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman)

Front Cover
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #269 March 1987

Department: DICK DePARTMENT
Story: Fund Raisers That Never Made It!
Artist with Dick DeBartolo, Harvey Kurtzman

Back Cover: Mad Celebrity Madballs
Artist with John Prete, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #270 April 1987

Department: Military Coup-Coos Department
Story: Banana Republic Dictator of the Year
Artist with Lou Silverstone, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #271 June 1987

Back Cover: A TV Commercial We'd Like to See
Colorist, Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, John Prete

MAD Magazine #272 July 1987

Department: Dunkin' Donors Dept.
Story: Mad Visits an Organ Transplant Hospital
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Lou Silverstone

MAD Magazine #500 June 2009

Story: MAD issues 1-100 "Murmurs and Mumblings"
Author with Bob Clarke, Joe Orlando, Don Reilly, Dave Berg, Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, Irving Schild, Norman Mingo, Phil Hahn, Basil Wolverton, Sergio Aragonés, Margaret Szep, Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Jack Rickard, Nick Meglin, Frank Frazetta, Antonio Prohias, Lester Krauss, Jack Davis, Frank Kelly Freas, Don Martin, George Woodbridge

Department: MAD issues 201-300 "Snatched glory and bruised knuckles"
Story: MAD issues 201-300 "Snatched glory and bruised knuckles"
Author with Angelo Torres, George Woodbridge, Greg Theakston, Tom Koch, Jack Rickard, Sergio Aragonés, John Ficarra, Russ Cooper, Arnie Kogen, Gerry Gersten, Harvey Kurtzman, Desmond Devlin, Antonio Prohias, Richard Williams, Bob Clarke, Stan Hart, Joe Raiola, Paul Coker, Jr., Rick Tulka, Irving Schild, Al Jaffee, Dick DeBartolo, John Pound, Paul Peter Porges, Sam Viviano, Larry Siegel, Charlie Kadau, Dave Berg, Phil Hahn, Harry North, Don Edwing, Frank Jacobs, Jack Davis, Carolyn Abram, Thomas Hachtman, Don Martin, Mort Drucker

MAD Super Special • USA • New York

MAD Super Special #18 1975

Cover Artist (with Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Norman Mingo)

MAD Super Special #21 1976

Cover Artist (with John Severin, Norman Mingo)

MAD Super Special #24 1977

Cover Artist (with Jack Davis, Wally Wood)

MAD Super Special #28 1979

Cover Artist (with Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman)

MAD Super Special #32 1980

Cover Artist (with Jack Davis, Norman Mingo, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman)

MAD Super Special #125 December 1997

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman)

Tales calculated to drive you MAD • USA • New York

Tales calculated to drive you MAD #2 1997

Cover Artist

Tales calculated to drive you MAD #3 April 1998

Cover Artist

Tales calculated to drive you MAD #4 June 1998

Cover Artist

Tales calculated to drive you MAD #6 1999

Cover Artist

Tales calculated to drive you MAD #8 1999

Cover Artist

MAD Paperbacks • USA • New York

Mad Strikes Back #2 May 1955

Illustrator (with Jack Davis, Wally Wood)

Mad Strikes Back #2 May 1955

Illustrator (with Jack Davis, Wally Wood)

Inside Mad #3 November 1955

Illustrator (with Jack Davis, Wally Wood)

Inside Mad #3 November 1955

Illustrator (with Wally Wood, Jack Davis)

Utterly Mad #4 October 1956

Illustrator (with Wally Wood, Phil Interlandi, Jack Davis, John Severin)

The Brothers Mad #5 October 1958

Illustrator (with Wally Wood, Jack Davis, John Severin)

The MAD archives • USA • New York

The Mad Archives #1 August 2002

Illustrator (with Jack Davis, John Severin, Wally Wood)

The Mad Archives #2 November 2007

Illustrator (with Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Basil Wolverton, Bernard Krigstein, John Severin)

MAD paperback collections • USA • New York

Slipcase Set: Complete Collection of Will Elder, Jack Davis and Wally Wood October 2015

Author (with Jack Davis, Wally Wood)

Miscellaneous MAD Books • USA • New York

MAD: Artist’s Edition HC Variant

Illustrator (with Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman)

MAD: Artist’s Edition HC

Illustrator (with Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman)

The MAD Art of Will Elder: The Complete Collection of His Work from MAD Comics #1-23 October 2015

Author

MAD Magazine • Brasil • Veechi

MAD Magazine #20 February 1976

Department: Seção da Meia-Noite
Story: Frank N. Stein!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #22 April 1976

Department: Seção Fantasia
Story: Comic satire: “Man Traque, o Mágico”
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #26 August 1976

Department: Seção Passa-Muito-Tempo Part 1
Story: Quebra-Cabeças MAD
Artist

MAD Magazine #28 October 1976

Department: Seção Enlatada
Story: A Página de Quadrinhos do MAD
Artist

MAD Magazine #29 November 1976

Department: Seção Criminal
Story: Sherlock Shomes
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #37 July 1977

Department: Seção Nostalgia
Story: Nostalgic satire: “Ping Pong
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #38 August 1977

Department: Seção Moacy Sidnei
Story: Comic satire: “A Maravilha de Mulher!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #54 December 1978

Department: Seção da Meia-Noite
Story: Santuário do Terror
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine • Brasil • Record

MAD Magazine #14 September 1985

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman)

MAD Magazine #20 June 1986

Department: Seção É Isso Aí, Bicho
Story: Truques de Camuflagem dos Animais da Cidade
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Rurik Tyler

MAD Magazine #21 July 1986

Department: Seção Paquera
Story: Como Conquistar Garotos
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Arnie Kogen

MAD Magazine #26 January 1987

Cover Artist (with Harvey Kurtzman)

Department: Seção Golpe do Baú
Story: TV satire: 'Roda da Fortuna' ['Wheel of Fortune']
Artist with Dick DeBartolo, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #28 March 1987

Department: Seção Obediência Militar
Story: O Ditador de Republiqueta do Ano
Artist with Lou Silverstone, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #32 August 1987

Department: Seção Desórgãonizada
Story: MAD Visita um Hospital de Transplante de Órgãos
Artist with Lou Silverstone, Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine #77 October 1991

Story: Não Aceite Imitações!
Artist with Maurício Veneza, Otacílio d’Assunção

Story: A Cripta do Fedor!
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman

MAD Magazine • Brasil • Mythos

MAD Magazine #11 June 2002

Department: Seção Argh-ológica
Story: 50 Anos de MAD – Parte II: O Auge da Loucura de Kurtzman
Artist with Harvey Kurtzman, Otacílio d’Assunção, Basil Wolverton, James Warhola, Pablo Picasso