Harvey Kurtzman 
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October 3rd, 1924, Mount Vernon, New York
Died:
February 21st, 1993
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Contributions by Harvey Kurtzman
USA • MAD Magazine (New York)
MAD Magazine #1October 1952
- Cover Artist (with Marie Severin)
- Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
- MAD Mumblings (Writer with William Gaines)
- Hoohah! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- Blobs! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Enter Cosmo McMoon! (Writer with Marie Severin)
- Crow Vadis? (Writer with Marie Severin)
- Ganefs! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Varmint! (Writer with Marie Severin, John P. Severin)
MAD Magazine #2December 1952
- Hex! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Melvin! (Writer with Marie Severin, John P. Severin)
- Lady-In-Mascara (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Calling Cosmo McMoon! (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Gookum! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Mole! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #3January 1953
- Cover Artist
- Cover: Vampire in the Cemetery (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Artist, Writer with William Gaines
- Dragged Net! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Sheik of Araby! (Writer with John P. Severin, Marie Severin)
- Rookie Gladiator (Artist with Marie Severin)
- The Dandelion Caper (Artist with Marie Severin)
- V-Vampires! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Lone Stranger! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
MAD Magazine #4January 1953
- Cover Artist (with Marie Severin)
- Front Cover (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
- Artist, Writer with William Gaines
- Superduperman! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Flob Was A Slob! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- The Parole (Artist with Marie Severin, Jerry DeFuccio)
- Let's Deplore Your Mind (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Robin Hood! (Writer with John P. Severin, Marie Severin)
- Shadow! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #5June 1953
- Outer Sanctum! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Black And Blue Hawks! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- MAD Mumblings (Writer with Marie Severin)
- Miltie of The Mounties! (Writer with John P. Severin, Marie Severin)
- Kane Keen! Private Eye (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #6August 1953
- Letters
- Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Teddy And The Pirates! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- Melvin of The Apes! (Writer with John P. Severin, Marie Severin)
- Hevo The Great (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
- Casey At The Bat! (Writer with Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Ping Pong! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #7September 1953
- Letters
- Cover: Shermlock Shomes (Writer, Artist with Marie Severin)
- Shermlock Shomes! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Treasure Island! (Writer with John P. Severin, Marie Severin)
- Operation Under-the-Ground [Chapter 1] (Writer)
- Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
- Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
- Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
- Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
- Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
- Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
- Smilin' Melvin! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
MAD Magazine #8December 1953
- Cover Artist
- Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Frank N. Stein! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Lone Stranger Rides Again! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- Artist
- Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
- Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
- Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
- Bat Boy and Rubin! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #9February 1954
- Cover Artist
- Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Little Orphan Melvin! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- The Raven (Writer with Edgar Allan Poe, Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Artist
- Bop Jokes! (Writer with John P. Severin, Marie Severin)
- Hah! Noon! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
MAD Magazine #10April 1954
- Cover Artist
- Cover: The Face Upon The Floor (Artist with Marie Severin)
- G.I. Shmoe! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Sane! (Writer with John P. Severin, Marie Severin)
- The Face Upon the Floor! (Writer with Marie Severin, H. Antoine D'Arcy, Basil Wolverton, Jack Davis)
- Woman Wonder! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #11May 1954
- Cover: Beautiful Girl of the Month Reads MAD (Writer, Photographer with Basil Wolverton)
- Flesh Garden! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- MAD Reader! (Writer with Basil Wolverton, Marie Severin)
- Operation Under-the-Ground Chapter 87 [Chapter 5] (Writer)
- Murder the Story! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- MAD Mumblings (Artist)
- Dragged Net! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #12June 1954
- Cover: Special Issue (Writer)
- Starchie (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- From Eternity Back to Here! (Writer with Bernard Krigstein, Marie Severin)
- Operation Under-the-Ground [Chapter 6] (Writer)
- 3-Dimensions! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- Mark Trade! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #13July 1954
- Cover: This Cover... MAD's Answer to Comic Book Titles... The Cover with the Smallest Title in the World! (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
- Prince Violent! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- Book! Movie! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Baby Quips! (Writer)
- Robinson Crusoe! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Manduck the Magician (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Movie...Ads! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- The Countynental! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Plastic Sam! (Writer with Russ Heath, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #15September 1954
- Cover Artist
- Gasoline Valley! (Writer with Bill Elder)
- Pot-Shot Pete Sheriff of Yucca-pucca Gulch! (Writer, Artist with Marie Severin)
- Artist
- Wild 1/2 (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Captain Tvideo! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- Cover: Humor In A Jugular Vein (Artist)
- Shermlock Shomes in the Hound of The Basketballs! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Newspapers! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Restaurant! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Wreck of The Hesperus (Writer with Wally Wood, Monte Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
MAD Magazine #17November 1954
- Cover Artist
- The Book Club of Tomorrow Is Here Today! (Writer)
- Bringing Back Father! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bernard Krigstein, Bill Elder)
- What's My Shine! (Writer with Jack Davis)
- Artist
- Meet Miss Potgold (Writer with Basil Wolverton, Marie Severin)
- Julius Caesar! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #18December 1954
- Cover Artist
- Cover: Look Gang! Another Surprise! In This Issue...YOU Draw The Cover! (Writer, Artist with Marie Severin)
- Alice In Wonderland! (Writer with John Tenniel, Jack Davis, Marie Severin, Lewis Caroll)
- Howdy Dooit! (Writer with Bill Elder)
- Pot-Shot Pete... (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
- Artist
- Stalag 18! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
MAD Magazine #19January 1955
- Mickey Rodent! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Supermarkets! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Puzzle Pages! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- The Cane Mutiny! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #20February 1955
- Katchandhammer Kids! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Sound Effects! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Artist
- Paul Revere's Ride! (Writer with Marie Severin, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jack Davis)
- Cowboy! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #21March 1955
- Poopeye! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Slow Motion! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Comic Book Ads! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Under The Waterfront! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- No Title (Writer)
MAD Magazine #22April 1955
- Cover Artist
- Cover: Special Art Issue (Artist with Marie Severin)
- The Child! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- The Boy! (Writer with Bill Elder)
- The Young Artist! (Writer with Bill Elder)
- The Commercial Artist! (Writer with Bill Elder)
- The Old Pro! [Mole!] (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Senility! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #23May 1955
- Cover: THINK (Writer)
- Gopo Gossum! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Scenes We'd...Like To See! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- Ripup's Believe It Or Don't (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- The Barefoot Nocountessa! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
MAD Magazine #24July 1955
- Cover Artist
- Front Cover (Artist)
- Extremely Important Message From The Editors (Artist, Writer)
- Contents (Writer)
- I Dreamed I Walked Down 5th Avenue In My Ironmaidenfit (Writer with Jack Davis)
- Letters Dept. (Writer with The Usual Gang of Idiots)
- Are You Ever Lovely To Love? (Writer with Bill Elder)
- Is A Trip To The Moon Possible? (Writer with Wally Wood)
- Wrestling (Writer with Jack Davis)
- Comics Digest (Writer with Bill Elder)
- Anyone Can Build This Coffee Table (Writer with Jack Davis)
- Is This Your Life? (Writer with Bill Elder)
- Vera's Cruz (Writer with Jack Davis)
- Pictoquiz (Writer with Jack Davis)
- Never Before A Bandage That Sticks Like This! (Writer with Bill Elder)
- When I'm Eating Jell-y I Wish I Were A Human Being (Writer)
MAD Magazine #25August 1955
- Cover Artist
- Cover: MAD Fearlessly Exposes The Tweed Ring (Artist with Thomas Nast)
- Table of Contents (Writer)
- Radiodetectiveland (Writer with Bill Elder)
- A Stirring Scene To Say The Least From MGMG's "Leave Me Or Leave"! (Writer with Bill Elder)
- ...The Jack E. Glisten Story (Writer with Wally Wood)
- Was George Washington "George"? (Writer with Bill Elder)
- MAD Awards... (Writer with Bill Elder)
- They Built Their Dream-House Singlehanded (Writer with Wally Wood)
- The Stark Club (Writer with Jack Davis)
- The Blackboard Jumble (Writer with Wally Wood)
- Your Voice of Wiseness Says Smoke Kennt (Writer with Bill Elder)
- A Picture History of Ol' Craw (Writer with Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #26November 1955
- Cover Artist (with Wally Wood)
- Cover: The Satellite (Artist with Wally Wood)
- Contents (Writer with Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #27April 1956
- Cover Artist (with Bill Elder, Jack Davis)
- Cover: 1956 (Artist with Bill Elder, Jack Davis)
- Table of Contents (Writer with Bill Elder)
- Writer with Jack Davis, Wally Wood
MAD Magazine #28July 1956
- Editor
- Cover: Spring Issue (Artist with Wally Wood, Bill Elder)
- No Title (Writer with The Usual Gang of Idiots)
- Writer with The Usual Gang of Idiots
- Comic Books [Black And Blue Hawks!] (Writer with Wally Wood)
MAD Magazine #29September 1956
- Cover Artist (with Bill Elder, Wally Wood)
- Cover: 3-Ring Circus of Fun (Artist with Bill Elder, Wally Wood)
- Writer with Bill Elder
- New Designs In Television Sets (Writer with Jack Davis)
- Hot Weather Photos (Writer)
- Energetic 17-Year-Olds Are Happy Happy Happy (Writer with Jack Davis)
MAD Magazine #30December 1956
- Cover Artist (with Bill Elder, Norman Mingo)
- Cover: Alfred E. Neuman Says "What - Me Worry?" (Artist with Bill Elder, Norman Mingo)
- Artist with Norman Mingo, Bill Elder, Al Feldstein
MAD Magazine #41September 1958
- How To Put Out An Imitation of MAD (Artist with Bill Elder, Norman Mingo, Jack Davis)
MAD Magazine #261March 1986
- Cover Artist (with Bill Elder)
- Front Cover (Colorist, Artist with Bill Elder)
- Camouflage Tricks of City Animals (Artist with Bill Elder, Rurik Tyler)
MAD Magazine #263June 1986
- Back Cover: The Day AT&T Went Too Far (Artist with Bill Elder, John Prete)
MAD Magazine #265September 1986
- How To Pick Up Guys (Artist with Bill Elder, Arnold H. "Arnie" Kogen)
- Back Cover: Garbage Pail Adults (Artist with Sara Fowler, Nick Meglin, Bill Elder, Joe Raiola, Charlie Kadau, John Ficarra)
MAD Magazine #267December 1986
- Mad's Fearless Forecast For the Upcoming TV Season (Artist with Bill Elder, Barry Liebmann)
MAD Magazine #268January 1987
- Cover Artist (with Bill Elder)
- Front Cover (Artist, Colorist with Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #269March 1987
- Fund Raisers That Never Made It! (Artist with Bill Elder, Dick DeBartolo)
- Back Cover: Mad Celebrity Madballs (Artist with Bill Elder, John Prete)
MAD Magazine #270April 1987
- Banana Republic Dictator of the Year (Artist with Bill Elder, Louis D. "Lou" Silverstone)
MAD Magazine #271June 1987
- Mad's Modern-Day Puzzlers (Artist with David Ames)
- Back Cover: A TV Commercial We'd Like to See (Artist, Colorist with John Prete, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #272July 1987
- Mad Visits an Organ Transplant Hospital (Artist with Bill Elder, Louis D. "Lou" Silverstone)
MAD Magazine #273September 1987
- A Mad Look At Some Widely Held Misconceptions (Artist with Mike Snider)
MAD Magazine #274October 1987
- Why Owning a VCR Is Better Than Going To The Movies (Artist with Thomas F. "Tom" Koch)
MAD Magazine #279June 1988
- All-Purpose Video Game Instructions Kit (Artist with Franklin "Frank" Jacobs)
MAD Magazine #281September 1988
- The MAD People Watcher's Guide To a Political Convention (Artist with Mike Snider)
MAD Magazine #284January 1989
- Play Pictionary With The Mad Artists (Artist with Gerry Gersten, Bob Clarke, Richard Williams, Antonio Prohias, Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Sergio Aragonés, John Prete, Robert G. "Bob" Jones, Sam Viviano, Paul Peter Porges, Don Edwing, Paul Coker, Jr., John Caldwell, George Woodbridge, Angelo Torres, Mort Drucker, Dave Berg)
MAD Magazine #500June 2009
- MAD issues 1-100 "Murmurs and Mumblings" (Author with Jack Rickard, Basil Wolverton, Norman Mingo, Bill Elder, Dave Berg, Don Reilly, Bob Clarke, George Woodbridge, Antonio Prohias, Nick Meglin, Al Jaffee, Mort Drucker, Sergio Aragonés, Margaret Szep, Phil Hahn, Irving Schild, Wally Wood, Joseph "Joe" Orlando, Don Martin, Frank Kelly Freas, Jack Davis, Lester Krauss, Frank Frazetta)
- MAD issues 201-300 "Snatched glory and bruised knuckles" (Author with Harry North, Charlie Kadau, Sam Viviano, Paul Peter Porges, Al Jaffee, Bill Elder, Desmond Devlin, Russ Cooper, John Pound, Rick Tulka, Sergio Aragonés, Stan Hart, Bob Clarke, Jack Rickard, George Woodbridge, Angelo Torres, Don Martin, Franklin "Frank" Jacobs, Don Edwing, Dick DeBartolo, Thomas Hachtman, Carolyn Abram, Paul Coker, Jr., Phil Hahn, Lawrence H. "Larry" Siegel, Irving Schild, Joe Raiola, Richard Williams, Antonio Prohias, John Ficarra, Mort Drucker, Jack Davis, Gerry Gersten, Arnold H. "Arnie" Kogen, Dave Berg, Thomas F. "Tom" Koch, Greg Theakston)
USA • MAD Magazine (California)
USA • Tales calculated to drive you MAD (New York)
USA • Miscellaneous MAD Specials (New York)
USA • Special Collector's Edition (New York)
- Cover Artist (with Tom Richmond, Richard Williams, Bill Elder, Bob Clarke, Sam Viviano, Jack Rickard)
USA • MAD Super Special (New York)
USA • Miscellaneous MAD Books (New York)
USA • Secondary Literature
Brasil • MAD Magazine (Veechi)
Brasil • MAD Magazine (Record)
MAD Magazine #20June 1986
- Truques de Camuflagem dos Animais da Cidade (Artist with Bill Elder, Rurik Tyler)
MAD Magazine #26January 1987
- Cover Artist (with Bill Elder)
- TV satire: 'Roda da Fortuna' ['Wheel of Fortune'] (Artist with Dick DeBartolo, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #28March 1987
- O Ditador de Republiqueta do Ano (Artist with Bill Elder, Louis D. "Lou" Silverstone)
MAD Magazine #32August 1987
- MAD Visita um Hospital de Transplante de Órgãos (Artist with Bill Elder, Louis D. "Lou" Silverstone)
MAD Magazine #35November 1987
- Por que Ter um Vídeo É Melhor do que Ir ao Cinema (Artist with Thomas F. "Tom" Koch)
Brasil • MAD Magazine (Mythos)
MAD Magazine #10April 2002
- 50 Anos de MAD – Parte I (Artist with Otacílio d’Assunção, James Warhola)
- Comic satire: “Tantan!” (Writer with John P. Severin)
MAD Magazine #11June 2002
- 50 Anos de MAD – Parte II: O Auge da Loucura de Kurtzman (Artist with Otacílio d’Assunção, Basil Wolverton, Bill Elder, Pablo Picasso, James Warhola)
MAD Magazine #14December 2002
- Comic satire: “Supermongo!” (Writer with Wally Wood)
- 50 Anos de MAD – Parte V: MAD Domina o Mundo (continuação da página 22) (Artist with Carlos Chagas, Bill Wray, Norman Mingo, Al Jaffee, Mort Drucker, 3/Design Studios, Otacílio d’Assunção, Wally Wood, Don Martin, Drew Friedman, Dave Berg, Myoung Youn Lee, Antonio Prohias, Frank Kelly Freas, Sergio Aragonés)
Brasil • MAD Magazine (Panini)
MAD Magazine #4June 2008
- Bill Elder (1921-2008) (Artist with Bill Elder, Otacílio d’Assunção)
- O Corvo (Adapter with Fernando Pessoa, Bill Elder, Edgar Allan Poe)
Brasil • MAD Especial (Record) (Record)
MAD Especial (Record) #2August 1985
- Superômi! (Writer with Wally Wood)
- Man Traque, o Mágico (Writer with Bill Elder)
Brasil • Miscellaneous MAD Specials (Record) (Record)
Mad O Pior DoSeptember 2000
- Capas dos números 1 da Série Antiga e 1 a 79 da Nova Série (Artist with João Antônio, Bob Clarke, Carlos Chagas, Norman Mingo, Bill Elder, Glauco da Cruz Brandão, Rogério Wusch dos Santos, Richard Williams, Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Ennio Torresan, Jack Rickard, Sam Viviano)
- Writer: Ota (Artist)
- Galeria de Capas de ETs do MAD – Série Nacional (Artist with Carlos Chagas, Bill Elder, Richard Williams, Ramade Martins)
Brasil • MAD Especial (Mythos) (Mythos)
MAD Especial (Mythos) #6October 2003
- Alfred E. Neuman Responde às Suas Dúvidas (Writer with Don Martin)
Brasil • MAD Especial (Panini) (Panini)
MAD Especial (Panini) #7November 2009
- Alfred E. Neuman Tira Suas Dúvidas (Writer with Don Martin)
- Os Comerciais de TV do Futuro (Writer with Don Martin)
MAD Especial (Panini) #15September 2012
- Melvin! [‘Tarzan’ comic satire] (Writer with John P. Severin)
Denmark • MAD Magazine (Williams)
Finland • MAD Magazine (Semic)
Finland • Miscellaneous MAD Specials (Semic)
France • Various MAD Books
Great Britain • MAD Magazine
Greece • MAD Super Special
Greece • MAD Special
Greece • MAD Special (Cyprus Version)
Netherlands • Secondary Literature: Stripschrift
Spain • MAD Books and Paperbacks
CLÁSICOS MAD #22009
- Artist (with Wally Wood, Bill Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Basil Wolverton, Jack Davis, John P. Severin)
Miscellaneous Non-MAD Publications
- Illustrator (with Frank Frazetta, Bill Elder, Jack Davis, Russ Heath, Al Jaffee)
