MAD Magazine #280 
Editorial
- Cover Artist: Mort Drucker
Cover Variations
Featured characters
Table of Contents
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
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
Mad's Comprehensive Modern-Day Disaster, Hazard & Problem Insurance
Department: Get A Piece of the Schlock
Artist: Paul Coker, Jr. Writer: Lou Silverstone
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
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
