Harvey Kurtzman

Cover Artist, Editor and Author

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October 3rd, 1924, Mount Vernon, New York

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February 21st, 1993

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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 Dept.
Blobs! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Science-Fiction Dept.
Enter Cosmo McMoon! (Writer with Marie Severin)
Department: Cosmo McMoon
Crow Vadis? (Writer with Marie Severin)
Ganefs! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Crime Dept.
Varmint! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Western Dept.

MAD Magazine #2December 1952

Hex! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Terror Dept.
Melvin! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Jungle Dept.; 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 Dept.
Mole! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Crime Dept.

MAD Magazine #3January 1953

Cover Artist
Cover: Vampire in the Cemetery (Artist with Marie Severin)
Writer, Artist with William Gaines
Department: MAD Mumblings
Dragged Net! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Sheik of Araby! (Writer with Marie Severin, John Severin)
Department: French Foreign Legion Dept.
Rookie Gladiator (Artist with Marie Severin)
The Dandelion Caper (Artist with Marie Severin)
V-Vampires! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Horror Dept.
Lone Stranger! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Western Dept.

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 Dept.
Flob Was A Slob! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: Romance Dept.
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)
Department: Hysterical Historical Dept.
Shadow! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Crime Dept.

MAD Magazine #5June 1953

Outer Sanctum! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Horror Dept.
Black And Blue Hawks! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Hero Worship Dept.
MAD Mumblings (Writer with Marie Severin)
Department: MAD Mumblings
Miltie of The Mounties! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Tales From The Northwest Dept.
Kane Keen! Private Eye (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Kane Keen

MAD Magazine #6August 1953

Letters
Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
Teddy And The Pirates! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: High-Type Adventure Dept.
Melvin of The Apes! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Jungle Dept.
Hevo The Great (Artist with Marie Severin)
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: MAD Mumblings
Casey At The Bat! (Writer with Jack Davis, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Marie Severin)
Department: Poetry Dept.
Ping Pong! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Horror Dept.

MAD Magazine #7September 1953

Letters
Cover: Shermlock Shomes (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
Shermlock Shomes! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Crime Dept.; Shermlock Shomes
Treasure Island! (Writer with Marie Severin, John Severin)
Department: Classic-Type Comics Dept.
Operation Under-the-Ground [Chapter 1] (Writer)
Department: Cloak-And-Dagger Dept.
Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Smilin' Melvin! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Airplane Dept.

MAD Magazine #8December 1953

Cover Artist
Front Cover (Artist with Marie Severin)
Frank N. Stein! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Terror Dept.
Lone Stranger Rides Again! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Western Dept.; Lone Stranger
Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings
Writer, Artist with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Artist, Writer with Marie Severin
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Hey Look!
Bat Boy and Rubin! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Hero Worship Dept.

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 Dept.
The Raven (Writer with Bill Elder, Edgar Allan Poe, Marie Severin)
Department: Classical Type Comics Dept.
Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings
Bop Jokes! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Hah! Noon! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Western Dept.

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)
Department: War Comics Dept.
Sane! (Writer with John Severin, Marie Severin)
Department: Western Dept.
The Face Upon the Floor! (Writer with Marie Severin, H. Antoine D'Arcy, Jack Davis, Basil Wolverton)
Department: Poetry Dept.
Woman Wonder! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Heroine Worship Dept.

MAD Magazine #11May 1954

Cover: Beautiful Girl of the Month Reads MAD (Writer, Photographer with Basil Wolverton)
Flesh Garden! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Science-Fiction Dept.
MAD Reader! (Writer with Marie Severin, Basil Wolverton)
Department: Special Feature Dept.
Operation Under-the-Ground Chapter 87 [Chapter 5] (Writer)
Department: Cloak-And-Dagger Dept.
Murder the Story! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
MAD Mumblings (Artist)
Department: MAD Mumblings
Dragged Net! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Crime Dept.

MAD Magazine #12June 1954

Cover: Special Issue (Writer)
Starchie (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Teen-Age Comics Dept.
From Eternity Back to Here! (Writer with Bernard Krigstein, Marie Severin)
Department: Moving Picture Dept.
Operation Under-the-Ground [Chapter 6] (Writer)
Department: Cloak-And-Dagger Dept.
3-Dimensions! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Odd (3-D) Comics Dept.
Mark Trade! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: Nature Lover's Dept.

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 Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Romance (Not The Sexy Kind) Dept.
Book! Movie! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Literature Dept.; Cinema Dept.
Baby Quips! (Writer)
Department: Photography Dept.
Robinson Crusoe! (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Classic-Type Comics Dept.

MAD Magazine #14

Manduck the Magician (Writer with Marie Severin, Bill Elder)
Department: Newspaper Cartoon Dept.
Movie...Ads! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Cinema Dept.; Advertising Dept.
The Countynental! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Television Dept.
Plastic Sam! (Writer with Russ Heath, Marie Severin)
Department: Plastic Hero Worship Dept.

MAD Magazine #15September 1954

Cover Artist
Gasoline Valley! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Newspaper Comics Dept.
Pot-Shot Pete Sheriff of Yucca-pucca Gulch! (Artist, Writer with Marie Severin)
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.
Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings
Wild 1/2 (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Hollywood Dept.
Captain Tvideo! (Writer with Marie Severin, Jack Davis)
Department: T.V. Dept.

MAD Magazine #16

Cover: Humor In A Jugular Vein (Artist)
Shermlock Shomes in the Hound of The Basketballs! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Crime Dept.
Newspapers! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: The Press Dept.
Restaurant! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: The American Scene Dept.
Wreck of The Hesperus (Writer with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wally Wood, Monte Moore)
Department: Poetry Dept.

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 Dept.
What's My Shine! (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Television Dept.
Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings
Meet Miss Potgold (Writer with Basil Wolverton, Marie Severin)
Department: Advertising Dept.
Julius Caesar! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Cut Your Own Throat Dept.

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 Lewis Caroll, Jack Davis, John Tenniel, Marie Severin)
Department: The Classics Dept.
Howdy Dooit! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: T.V. Dept.
Pot-Shot Pete... (Writer, Artist with Marie Severin)
Department: Collectors' Item Dept.; Pot-Shot Pete
Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings
Stalag 18! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Movie Dept.

MAD Magazine #19January 1955

Mickey Rodent! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Animation Dept.
Supermarkets! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: The American Scene Dept.
Puzzle Pages! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Filler Dept.
The Cane Mutiny! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Hollywood Dept.

MAD Magazine #20February 1955

Katchandhammer Kids! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Newspaper Cartoon Dept.
Sound Effects! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Comic book Dept.
Artist
Department: MAD Mumblings
Paul Revere's Ride! (Writer with Jack Davis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Marie Severin)
Department: Poetry Dept.
Cowboy! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Comparison Dept.

MAD Magazine #21March 1955

Poopeye! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Newspaper Comics Dept.
Slow Motion! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Science Dept.
Comic Book Ads! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Cut Your Own Throat Dept.
Under The Waterfront! (Writer with Marie Severin, Wally Wood)
Department: Movie Dept.
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)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
The Boy! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
The Young Artist! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
The Commercial Artist! (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
The Old Pro! [Mole!] (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.
Senility! (Writer with Bill Elder, Marie Severin)
Department: Bill (Chicken Fat) Elder Dept.

MAD Magazine #23May 1955

Cover: THINK (Writer)
Gopo Gossum! (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Newspaper Cartoon Dept.
Scenes We'd...Like To See! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Cliche Dept.
Ripup's Believe It Or Don't (Writer with Wally Wood, Marie Severin)
Department: Newspaper Cartoon Dept.
The Barefoot Nocountessa! (Writer with Jack Davis, Marie Severin)
Department: Hollywood Dept.

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)
Department: Ironmaidenfit
Letters Dept. (Writer with The Usual Gang of Idiots)
Department: Letters Dept.
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 Dept.
Wrestling (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Sports Dept.
Comics Digest (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Newspaper Comics Dept.; 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 Dept.
Is This Your Life? (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Television Dept.
Vera's Cruz (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Movie Dept.
Pictoquiz (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Puzzle Dept.
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 Dept.
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 Dept.
Was George Washington "George"? (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Confidential Information Dept.
MAD Awards... (Writer with Bill Elder)
Department: Mad Award Department
They Built Their Dream-House Singlehanded (Writer with Wally Wood)
Department: Build-It-Yourself Dept.
The Stark Club (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: Television Dept.
The Blackboard Jumble (Writer with Wally Wood)
Department: Movie Dept.
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 Dept.

MAD Magazine #28July 1956

Editor
Cover: Spring Issue (Artist with Bill Elder, Wally Wood)
No Title (Writer with The Usual Gang of Idiots)
Writer with The Usual Gang of Idiots
Department: Letters Dept.
Comic Books [Black And Blue Hawks!] (Writer with Wally Wood)
Department: Literature Dept.

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 Dept.
Hot Weather Photos (Writer)
Department: Newspaper Dept.
Energetic 17-Year-Olds Are Happy Happy Happy (Writer with Jack Davis)
Department: How To Give A Party Dept.

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 Al Feldstein, Bill Elder, Norman Mingo
Department: Alfred E. Neuman

MAD Magazine #41September 1958

How To Put Out An Imitation of MAD (Artist with Jack Davis, Norman Mingo, Bill Elder)
Department: Free-Loading Dept.

MAD Magazine #73September 1962

Cover Artist

MAD Magazine #77March 1963

Front Cover (Artist with Norman Mingo, Sergio Aragonés)

MAD Magazine #256July 1985

Mad's Goetz Mask (Idea with Allan Tannenbaum, Bill Elder)
Department: A Face Only A Mugger Could... Department

MAD Magazine #258October 1985

Back Cover: The Weinburger (Artist with Al Jaffee, Bill Elder)

MAD Magazine #259December 1985

Cover Artist (with Bill Elder)
Front Cover (Artist with Bill Elder)

MAD Magazine #260January 1986

Traveler's Blues (Artist with Bill Elder, Frank Jacobs)
Department: Frey the Unfriendly Skies Department

MAD Magazine #261March 1986

Cover Artist (with Bill Elder)
Front Cover (Artist, Colorist 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 John Prete, Bill Elder)

MAD Magazine #265September 1986

How To Pick Up Guys (Artist with Arnie Kogen, Bill Elder)
Department: Women's Glib Department
Back Cover: Garbage Pail Adults (Artist with Joe Raiola, John Ficarra, Charlie Kadau, Bill Elder, Nick Meglin, Sara Fowler)

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 Department

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 Bill Elder, Dick DeBartolo)
Department: DICK DePARTMENT
Back Cover: Mad Celebrity Madballs (Artist with Bill Elder, John Prete)