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
MAD Magazine • USA • New York
MAD Magazine #1October 1952
- Cover Artist (with Marie Severin)
- Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
- MAD Mumblings (Writer with William Gaines)
Department: MAD Mumblings - Hoohah! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Terror - Blobs! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Science-Fiction - Enter Cosmo McMoon! (Writer with Marie Severin)
Department: Cosmo McMoon - Crow Vadis? (Writer with Marie Severin)
- Ganefs! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Crime - Varmint! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Western
MAD Magazine #2December 1952
- Hex! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Terror - Melvin! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Jungle ; Melvin of The Apes - Lady-In-Mascara (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Calling Cosmo McMoon! (Artist with Marie Severin)
Department: Cosmo McMoon - Gookum! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Science-Fiction - Mole! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Crime
MAD Magazine #3January 1953
- Cover Artist
- Cover: Vampire in the Cemetery (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Artist, Writer with William Gaines
Department: MAD Mumblings - Dragged Net! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Sheik of Araby! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: French Foreign Legion - Rookie Gladiator (Artist with Marie Severin)
- The Dandelion Caper (Artist with Marie Severin)
- V-Vampires! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Horror - Lone Stranger! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: Western
MAD Magazine #4January 1953
- Cover Artist (with Marie Severin)
- Front Cover (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
- Artist, Writer with William Gaines
Department: MAD Mumblings - Superduperman! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Hero Worship - Flob Was A Slob! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: Romance - The Parole (Artist with Jerry DeFuccio, Marie Severin)
- Let's Deplore Your Mind (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Robin Hood! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Hysterical Historical - Shadow! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Crime
MAD Magazine #5June 1953
- Outer Sanctum! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Horror - Black And Blue Hawks! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Hero Worship - MAD Mumblings (Writer with Marie Severin)
Department: MAD Mumblings - Miltie of The Mounties! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Tales From The Northwest - Kane Keen! Private Eye (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Kane Keen
MAD Magazine #6August 1953
- Cover Artist (with Marie Severin)
- Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Teddy And The Pirates! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: High-Type Adventure - Melvin of The Apes! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Jungle - Hevo The Great (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
Department: MAD Mumblings - Casey At The Bat! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis, Ernest Lawrence Thayer)
Department: Poetry - Ping Pong! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Horror
MAD Magazine #7September 1953
- Cover Artist (with Marie Severin)
- Cover: Shermlock Shomes (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
- Shermlock Shomes! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Crime ; Shermlock Shomes - Treasure Island! (Writer with Marie Severin, John Severin)
Department: Classic-Type Comics - Operation Under-the-Ground [Chapter 1] (Writer)
Department: Cloak-And-Dagger - Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Smilin' Melvin! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Airplane
MAD Magazine #8December 1953
- Cover Artist
- Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Frank N. Stein! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Terror - Lone Stranger Rides Again! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: Western ; Lone Stranger - Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings - Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item ; Hey Look! - Bat Boy and Rubin! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Hero Worship
MAD Magazine #9February 1954
- Cover Artist
- Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Little Orphan Melvin! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Girl-And-Dog-Type-Story - The Raven (Writer with Bill Elder, Edgar Allan Poe, Marie Severin)
Department: Classical Type Comics - Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings - Bop Jokes! (Writer with Marie Severin, John Severin)
- Hah! Noon! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: Western
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)
Department: War Comics - Sane! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Western - The Face Upon the Floor! (Writer with H. Antoine D'Arcy, Jack Davis, Basil Wolverton, Marie Severin)
Department: Poetry - Woman Wonder! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Heroine Worship
MAD Magazine #11May 1954
- Cover: Beautiful Girl of the Month Reads MAD (Photographer, Writer with Basil Wolverton)
- Flesh Garden! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Science-Fiction - MAD Reader! (Writer with Basil Wolverton, Marie Severin)
Department: Special Feature - Operation Under-the-Ground Chapter 87 [Chapter 5] (Writer)
Department: Cloak-And-Dagger - Murder the Story! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- MAD Mumblings (Artist)
Department: MAD Mumblings - Dragged Net! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Crime
MAD Magazine #12June 1954
- Cover: Special Issue (Writer)
- Starchie (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Teen-Age Comics - From Eternity Back to Here! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bernard Krigstein)
Department: Moving Picture - Operation Under-the-Ground [Chapter 6] (Writer)
Department: Cloak-And-Dagger - 3-Dimensions! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Odd (3-D) Comics - Mark Trade! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Nature Lover's
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)
Department: Romance (Not The Sexy Kind) - Book! Movie! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Literature ; Cinema - Baby Quips! (Writer)
Department: Photography - Robinson Crusoe! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Classic-Type Comics
- Manduck the Magician (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Newspaper Cartoon - Movie...Ads! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Cinema ; Advertising - The Countynental! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: Television - Plastic Sam! (Writer with Russ Heath, Marie Severin)
Department: Plastic Hero Worship
MAD Magazine #15September 1954
- Cover Artist
- Gasoline Valley! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Newspaper Comics - Pot-Shot Pete Sheriff of Yucca-pucca Gulch! (Writer, Artist with Marie Severin)
Department: Collectors' Item - Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings - Wild 1/2 (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Hollywood - Captain Tvideo! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: T.V.
- Cover: Humor In A Jugular Vein (Artist)
- Shermlock Shomes in the Hound of The Basketballs! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Crime - Newspapers! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: The Press - Restaurant! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: The American Scene - Wreck of The Hesperus (Writer with Monte Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wally Wood)
Department: Poetry
MAD Magazine #17November 1954
- Cover Artist
- The Book Club of Tomorrow Is Here Today! (Writer)
Department: Science-Fiction Book Club - Bringing Back Father! (Writer with Bill Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Marie Severin)
Department: Newspaper Cartoon - What's My Shine! (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Television - Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings - Meet Miss Potgold (Writer with Marie Severin, Basil Wolverton)
Department: Advertising - Julius Caesar! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Cut Your Own Throat
MAD Magazine #18December 1954
- Cover Artist
- Cover: Look Gang! Another Surprise! In This Issue...YOU Draw The Cover! (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
- Alice In Wonderland! (Writer with Marie Severin, Lewis Caroll, Jack Davis, John Tenniel)
Department: The Classics - Howdy Dooit! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: T.V. - Pot-Shot Pete... (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
Department: Collectors' Item ; Pot-Shot Pete - Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings - Stalag 18! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Movie
MAD Magazine #19January 1955
- Mickey Rodent! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Animation - Supermarkets! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: The American Scene - Puzzle Pages! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Filler - The Cane Mutiny! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Hollywood
MAD Magazine #20February 1955
- Katchandhammer Kids! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Newspaper Cartoon - Sound Effects! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Comic book - Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings - Paul Revere's Ride! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Department: Poetry - Cowboy! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Comparison
MAD Magazine #21March 1955
- Poopeye! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Newspaper Comics - Slow Motion! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: Science - Comic Book Ads! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Cut Your Own Throat - Under The Waterfront! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Movie - 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)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder - The Boy! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder - The Young Artist! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder - The Commercial Artist! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder - The Old Pro! [Mole!] (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder - Senility! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder
MAD Magazine #23May 1955
- Cover: THINK (Writer)
- Gopo Gossum! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Newspaper Cartoon - Scenes We'd...Like To See! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Cliche - Ripup's Believe It Or Don't (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Newspaper Cartoon - The Barefoot Nocountessa! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Hollywood
MAD Magazine #24July 1955
- Cover Artist
- Front Cover (Artist)
- Extremely Important Message From The Editors (Writer, Artist)
- Contents (Writer)
- I Dreamed I Walked Down 5th Avenue In My Ironmaidenfit (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Ironmaidenfit - Letters Dept. (Writer with The Usual Gang of Idiots)
Department: Letters - Are You Ever Lovely To Love? (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: MMboy - Is A Trip To The Moon Possible? (Writer with Wally Wood)
Department: Science - Wrestling (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Sports - Comics Digest (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Newspaper Comics ; Brunette; Little Orphan Melvin; Smilin' Melvin; Lil' Ab'r; Dick Tracing; Popcorn; Manduck The Magician - Anyone Can Build This Coffee Table (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Do It Yourself - Is This Your Life? (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Television - Vera's Cruz (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Movie - Pictoquiz (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Puzzle - Never Before A Bandage That Sticks Like This! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Bind-Aig - When I'm Eating Jell-y I Wish I Were A Human Being (Writer)
Department: Jell-y
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)
Department: Radio - 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)
Department: People - Was George Washington "George"? (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Confidential Information - MAD Awards... (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Mad Award - They Built Their Dream-House Singlehanded (Writer with Wally Wood)
Department: Build-It-Yourself - The Stark Club (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Television - The Blackboard Jumble (Writer with Wally Wood)
Department: Movie - 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
Department: Letters
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
Department: Letters - Comic Books [Black And Blue Hawks!] (Writer with Wally Wood)
Department: Literature
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
Department: Mad Magazine - New Designs In Television Sets (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Science - Hot Weather Photos (Writer)
Department: Newspaper - Energetic 17-Year-Olds Are Happy Happy Happy (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: How To Give A Party
MAD Magazine #30December 1956
- Cover Artist (with Norman Mingo, Bill Elder)
- Cover: Alfred E. Neuman Says "What - Me Worry?" (Artist with Bill Elder, Norman Mingo)
- Artist with Al Feldstein, Bill Elder, Norman Mingo
Department: Alfred E. Neuman
MAD Magazine #41September 1958
- How To Put Out An Imitation of MAD (Artist with Bill Elder, Jack Davis, Norman Mingo)
Department: Free-Loading
MAD Magazine #256July 1985
- Mad's Goetz Mask (Idea with Bill Elder, Allan Tannenbaum)
Department: A Face Only A Mugger Could...
MAD Magazine #260January 1986
- Traveler's Blues (Artist with Frank Jacobs, Bill Elder)
Department: Frey the Unfriendly Skies
MAD Magazine #261March 1986
- Cover Artist (with Bill Elder)
- Front Cover (Colorist, Artist with Bill Elder)
- Camouflage Tricks of City Animals (Artist with Rurik Tyler, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #263June 1986
- Back Cover: The Day AT&T Went Too Far (Artist with John Prete, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #265September 1986
- How To Pick Up Guys (Artist with Bill Elder, Arnie Kogen)
Department: Women's Glib - Back Cover: Garbage Pail Adults (Artist with Bill Elder, Nick Meglin, Sara Fowler, Joe Raiola, John Ficarra, Charlie Kadau)
MAD Magazine #266October 1986
- We'll Make A Fortune (Artist with Bill Elder, Dick DeBartolo)
Department: DICK DePARTMENT
MAD Magazine #267December 1986
- Mad's Fearless Forecast For the Upcoming TV Season (Artist with Barry Liebmann, Bill Elder)
Department: E.S.P.-U
MAD Magazine #268January 1987
- Cover Artist (with Bill Elder)
- Front Cover (Colorist, Artist with Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #269March 1987
- Fund Raisers That Never Made It! (Artist with Dick DeBartolo, Bill Elder)
Department: DICK DePARTMENT - 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, Lou Silverstone)
Department: Military Coup-Coos
MAD Magazine #271June 1987
- Mad's Modern-Day Puzzlers (Artist with David Ames)
- Back Cover: A TV Commercial We'd Like to See (Colorist, Artist with Bill Elder, John Prete)
MAD Magazine #272July 1987
- Mad Visits an Organ Transplant Hospital (Artist with Bill Elder, Lou Silverstone)
Department: Dunkin' Donors
MAD Magazine #273September 1987
- A Mad Look At Some Widely Held Misconceptions (Artist with Mike Snider)
Department: Having a Truth Pulled
MAD Magazine #274October 1987
- Why Owning a VCR Is Better Than Going To The Movies (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: Renting and Raving
MAD Magazine #279June 1988
- All-Purpose Video Game Instructions Kit (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
Department: Joy-Schtick
MAD Magazine #281September 1988
- The MAD People Watcher's Guide To a Political Convention (Artist with Mike Snider)
Department: Behind The Nominate Ball
MAD Magazine #284January 1989
- Play Pictionary With The Mad Artists (Artist with Sergio Aragonés, Angelo Torres, Jack Davis, George Woodbridge, John Caldwell, Al Jaffee, Antonio Prohias, Paul Coker, Jr., Richard Williams, Bob Clarke, Gerry Gersten, Don Edwing, Dave Berg, Paul Peter Porges, Sam Viviano, Mort Drucker, Bob Jones, John Prete)
Department: Quick Draw Guffaw
MAD Magazine #356April 1997
- Help End Civilization as We Know It! (Artist)
Department: Advertisement for Subscriptions
MAD Magazine #500June 2009
- MAD issues 1-100 "Murmurs and Mumblings" (Author with Norman Mingo, Basil Wolverton, Jack Rickard, Margaret Szep, Frank Frazetta, Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Nick Meglin, Jack Davis, Antonio Prohias, George Woodbridge, Lester Krauss, Bob Clarke, Frank Kelly Freas, Don Martin, Dave Berg, Joe Orlando, Don Reilly, Wally Wood, Irving Schild, Phil Hahn, Bill Elder, Sergio Aragonés)
- MAD issues 201-300 "Snatched glory and bruised knuckles" (Author with Bill Elder, Rick Tulka, Antonio Prohias, Richard Williams, Al Jaffee, Joe Raiola, Paul Coker, Jr., Irving Schild, John Pound, Larry Siegel, Dick DeBartolo, Phil Hahn, Paul Peter Porges, Don Edwing, Sam Viviano, Frank Jacobs, Charlie Kadau, Don Martin, Dave Berg, Harry North, Greg Theakston, Jack Davis, Carolyn Abram, Thomas Hachtman, Tom Koch, Mort Drucker, John Ficarra, Angelo Torres, George Woodbridge, Sergio Aragonés, Jack Rickard, Russ Cooper, Arnie Kogen, Bob Clarke, Gerry Gersten, Stan Hart, Desmond Devlin)
Department: MAD issues 201-300 "Snatched glory and bruised knuckles"
MAD Super Special • USA • New York
Tales calculated to drive you MAD • USA • New York
Miscellaneous MAD Specials • USA • New York
Miscellaneous MAD Books • USA • New York
The MAD archives • USA • New York
MAD Magazine • Brasil • Veechi
MAD Magazine • Brasil • Record
MAD Magazine • Brasil • Mythos
MAD Magazine • Brasil • Panini
MAD Especial • Brasil • Record
Miscellaneous MAD Specials • Brasil • Record
Super Extra • Brasil • Record
MAD Especial • Brasil • Mythos
MAD Especial • Brasil • Panini
MAD Magazine • Great Britain
MAD Grandes Genios Del Humor • Spain
'Clásicos MAD' Paperbacks • Spain • Planeta DeAgostini
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