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 Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Blobs! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- Enter Cosmo McMoon! (Writer with Marie Severin)
- Crow Vadis? (Writer with Marie Severin)
- Ganefs! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Varmint! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #2December 1952
- Hex! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- Melvin! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
- Lady-In-Mascara (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Calling Cosmo McMoon! (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Gookum! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- 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 Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Sheik of Araby! (Writer with John 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 Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #4January 1953
- Cover Artist (with Marie Severin)
- Front Cover (Writer, Artist 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 Jerry DeFuccio, Marie Severin)
- Let's Deplore Your Mind (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Robin Hood! (Writer with Marie Severin, John Severin)
- Shadow! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #5June 1953
- Outer Sanctum! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Black And Blue Hawks! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- MAD Mumblings (Writer with Marie Severin)
- Miltie of The Mounties! (Writer with Marie Severin, John Severin)
- Kane Keen! Private Eye (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #6August 1953
- Cover Artist (with Marie Severin)
- Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Teddy And The Pirates! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Melvin of The Apes! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
- Hevo The Great (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
- Casey At The Bat! (Writer with Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Ping Pong! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
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)
- Treasure Island! (Writer with Marie Severin, John Severin)
- Operation Under-the-Ground [Chapter 1] (Writer)
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
- Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
- Smilin' Melvin! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #8December 1953
- Cover Artist
- Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
- Frank N. Stein! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Lone Stranger Rides Again! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Artist
- 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
- 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 Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- The Raven (Writer with Marie Severin, Edgar Allan Poe, Bill Elder)
- Artist
- Bop Jokes! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
- Hah! Noon! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #10April 1954
- Cover Artist
- Cover: The Face Upon The Floor (Artist with Marie Severin)
- G.I. Shmoe! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- Sane! (Writer with Marie Severin, John Severin)
- The Face Upon the Floor! (Writer with H. Antoine D'Arcy, Basil Wolverton, Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Woman Wonder! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #11May 1954
- Cover: Beautiful Girl of the Month Reads MAD (Photographer, Writer with Basil Wolverton)
- Flesh Garden! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- MAD Reader! (Writer with Marie Severin, Basil Wolverton)
- Operation Under-the-Ground Chapter 87 [Chapter 5] (Writer)
- Murder the Story! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- MAD Mumblings (Artist)
- Dragged Net! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #12June 1954
- Cover: Special Issue (Writer)
- Starchie (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- From Eternity Back to Here! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bernard Krigstein)
- Operation Under-the-Ground [Chapter 6] (Writer)
- 3-Dimensions! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- 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! (Writer, Artist with Marie Severin)
- Prince Violent! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Book! Movie! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- Baby Quips! (Writer)
- Robinson Crusoe! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Manduck the Magician (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- Movie...Ads! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- The Countynental! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Plastic Sam! (Writer with Marie Severin, Russ Heath)
MAD Magazine #15September 1954
- Cover Artist
- Gasoline Valley! (Writer with Bill Elder)
- Pot-Shot Pete Sheriff of Yucca-pucca Gulch! (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
- Artist
- Wild 1/2 (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
- Captain Tvideo! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Cover: Humor In A Jugular Vein (Artist)
- Shermlock Shomes in the Hound of The Basketballs! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Newspapers! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- Restaurant! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Wreck of The Hesperus (Writer with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wally Wood, Monte Moore)
MAD Magazine #17November 1954
- Cover Artist
- The Book Club of Tomorrow Is Here Today! (Writer)
- Bringing Back Father! (Writer with Bernard Krigstein, Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
- 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! (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
- Alice In Wonderland! (Writer with Marie Severin, Lewis Caroll, John Tenniel, Jack Davis)
- Howdy Dooit! (Writer with Bill Elder)
- Pot-Shot Pete... (Writer, Artist with Marie Severin)
- Artist
- Stalag 18! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #19January 1955
- Mickey Rodent! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Supermarkets! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- Puzzle Pages! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- The Cane Mutiny! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #20February 1955
- Katchandhammer Kids! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Sound Effects! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Artist
- Paul Revere's Ride! (Writer with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Cowboy! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
MAD Magazine #21March 1955
- Poopeye! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Slow Motion! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
- Comic Book Ads! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Under The Waterfront! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- No Title (Writer)
MAD Magazine #22April 1955
- Cover Artist
- Cover: Special Art Issue (Artist with Marie Severin)
- The Child! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- 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 Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
- Senility! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #23May 1955
- Cover: THINK (Writer)
- Gopo Gossum! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- Scenes We'd...Like To See! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
- Ripup's Believe It Or Don't (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
- The Barefoot Nocountessa! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
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 Jack Davis, Bill Elder)
- Cover: 1956 (Artist with Jack Davis, Bill Elder)
- 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 Wally Wood, Bill Elder)
- 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 Norman Mingo, Bill Elder)
- Cover: Alfred E. Neuman Says "What - Me Worry?" (Artist with Bill Elder, Norman Mingo)
- Artist with Al Feldstein, Norman Mingo, Bill Elder
MAD Magazine #41September 1958
- How To Put Out An Imitation of MAD (Artist with Norman Mingo, Jack Davis, Bill Elder)
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 Bill Elder, John Prete)
MAD Magazine #265September 1986
- How To Pick Up Guys (Artist with Bill Elder, Arnie Kogen)
- Back Cover: Garbage Pail Adults (Artist with Charlie Kadau, John Ficarra, Sara Fowler, Nick Meglin, Bill Elder, Joe Raiola)
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 (Colorist, Artist with Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #269March 1987
- Fund Raisers That Never Made It! (Artist with Dick DeBartolo, Bill Elder)
- 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)
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)
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 Tom Koch)
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 Bob Jones, Sam Viviano, Paul Peter Porges, Don Edwing, Paul Coker, Jr., John Caldwell, George Woodbridge, Angelo Torres, Mort Drucker, Dave Berg, Gerry Gersten, Bob Clarke, Richard Williams, Antonio Prohias, Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Sergio Aragonés, John Prete)
MAD Magazine #500June 2009
- MAD issues 1-100 "Murmurs and Mumblings" (Author with Sergio Aragonés, Margaret Szep, Phil Hahn, Irving Schild, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Don Martin, Frank Kelly Freas, Jack Davis, Lester Krauss, Frank Frazetta, Jack Rickard, Basil Wolverton, Norman Mingo, Bill Elder, Dave Berg, Don Reilly, Bob Clarke, George Woodbridge, Antonio Prohias, Nick Meglin, Al Jaffee, Mort Drucker)
- MAD issues 201-300 "Snatched glory and bruised knuckles" (Author with Don Edwing, Dick DeBartolo, Thomas Hachtman, Paul Coker, Jr., Carolyn Abram, Phil Hahn, Larry Siegel, Irving Schild, Joe Raiola, Richard Williams, Antonio Prohias, John Ficarra, Mort Drucker, Jack Davis, Gerry Gersten, Arnie Kogen, Dave Berg, Tom Koch, Greg Theakston, 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, Frank Jacobs)
USA • MAD Magazine (California)
USA • MAD Super Special (New York)
USA • Tales calculated to drive you MAD (New York)
USA • Miscellaneous MAD Specials (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 Rurik Tyler, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #26January 1987
- Cover Artist (with Bill Elder)
- TV satire: 'Roda da Fortuna' ['Wheel of Fortune'] (Artist with Bill Elder, Dick DeBartolo)
MAD Magazine #28March 1987
- O Ditador de Republiqueta do Ano (Artist with Lou Silverstone, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #32August 1987
- MAD Visita um Hospital de Transplante de Órgãos (Artist with Lou Silverstone, Bill Elder)
MAD Magazine #35November 1987
- Por que Ter um Vídeo É Melhor do que Ir ao Cinema (Artist with 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 Severin)
MAD Magazine #11June 2002
- 50 Anos de MAD – Parte II: O Auge da Loucura de Kurtzman (Artist with Basil Wolverton, Bill Elder, Pablo Picasso, James Warhola, Otacílio d’Assunção)
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 Myoung Youn Lee, Otacílio d’Assunção, Antonio Prohias, Frank Kelly Freas, Sergio Aragonés, Carlos Chagas, Bill Wray, Norman Mingo, Al Jaffee, Mort Drucker, 3/Design Studios, Wally Wood, Don Martin, Drew Friedman, Dave Berg)
Brasil • MAD Magazine (Panini)
MAD Magazine #4June 2008
- Bill Elder (1921-2008) (Artist with Otacílio d’Assunção, Bill Elder)
- O Corvo (Adapter with Edgar Allan Poe, Fernando Pessoa, Bill Elder)
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 Richard Williams, Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Ennio Torresan, Jack Rickard, Sam Viviano, João Antônio, Bob Clarke, Carlos Chagas, Norman Mingo, Bill Elder, Glauco da Cruz Brandão, Rogério Wusch dos Santos)
- Writer: Ota (Artist)
- Galeria de Capas de ETs do MAD – Série Nacional (Artist with Richard Williams, Ramade, Carlos Chagas, Bill Elder)
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)
France • Various MAD Books
Great Britain • MAD Magazine
Netherlands • Secondary Literature: Stripschrift
Spain • MAD Books and Paperbacks
Miscellaneous Non-MAD Publications
- Illustrator (with Russ Heath, Al Jaffee, Frank Frazetta, Bill Elder, Jack Davis)