MAD Magazine #280

Cover

Artist: Mort Drucker

Table of Contents

Artist: The Usual Gang of Idiots

Letters and Tomatoes Department

Department: Letters and Tomatoes

Artist: Sergio Aragonés

New Cigarette Warning Labels You May Have Missed

Department: Ifs, Ands and Butts

Writer: Charlie Kadau Writer: Joe Raiola Artist: Irving Schild

A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes At A High School Prom

Department: The Tux Flocks Here

Artist: Sergio Aragonés Writer: Charlie Kadau Writer: Joe Raiola

Drama On Page 8

Department: Drum Schtick

Artist, Writer: John Caldwell

Three Morons and A Baby

Department: Tour Of Doody

Artist: Angelo Torres Writer: Stan Hart

Broadcast Snooze

Department: Anchore Sore

Artist: Angelo Torres Writer: Stan Hart

Spy vs. Spy

Department: Joke and Dagger

Artist, Writer: Antonio Prohias

Duck Edwing Rushes Into the Emergency Room

Department: Tales From the Duck Side

Artist, Writer: Don Edwing

Tricks of the Trade In Local TV News

Department: Eyewitness Ruse

Artist: George Woodbridge Writer: Tom Koch

Mad's Post-Nuclear Publications

Department: All the Nukes That's Fit To Print

Artist: Bob Clarke Writer: Barry Liebmann

Gary Hart Land

Department: Carnival Knowledge Edge

Artist: Al Jaffee Writer: Charlie Kadau Writer: Joe Raiola

The Lighter Side Of...

Department: Berg's-Eye View

Artist, Writer: Dave Berg

Mad's Comprehensive Modern-Day Disaster, Hazard & Problem Insurance

Department: Get A Piece of the Schlock

Artist: Paul Coker, Jr. Writer: Lou Silverstone

Schwarzenegger

Department: Frank On A Roll

Artist: Mort Drucker Writer: Frank Jacobs

When Other Comic Strips Start Using the "Far Side" Formula

Department: Grand Larson-Y

Writer: Charlie Kadau Artist: Bob Clarke

Mad's Plan For Improving Movie Theatres

Department: Gall of the House Of Ushers

Writer: Frank Jacobs Artist: Harry North

Talk About Cheap!

Department: Charge of the Tight Brigade

Artist, Writer: Paul Peter Porges

Drama On Page 42

Department: Witless For the Defense

Artist, Writer: John Caldwell

Beauty Is the Beast

Department: Where the Wild Thing Stars

Artist: Jack Davis Writer: Dick DeBartolo

A Mad Good Luck Chain Letter

Department: Writes Of Passage

Drawn Out Dramas (Various Places around the Magazine)

Artist, Writer: Sergio Aragonés

Back Cover Inside: What loathsome form of useless vegetation is cropping up all over the land?

Artist, Writer: Al Jaffee

Back Cover: Alfred E. Neuman For President - Vote Mad in '88

Artist: Norman Mingo Writer: Charlie Kadau Writer: Joe Raiola