MAD Magazine #457

Contents Page

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"Politicians only display creative thinking when making excuses after they get caught doing something illegal!"

Department: Alfred E. Neuman Quotes

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Random Samplings of Reader Mail

Department: Letters and Tomatoes

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The Fundalini Pages

• List of all contributors

  Author: Paul Coker, Jr. Author: Dick DeBartolo Author: Frank Jacobs Author: Peter Kuper Author: Peter Bagge Author: Jacob Lambert Author: Jack Syracuse Author: Barry Liebmann Author: Ted Rall Author: Mike Snider Author: Patrick Merrel Author: Nate Fakes Author: Timothy Shamey Author: Scott Mendenhall

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• This Month's Hot New Toys - Rapco's Pocket Mazes!

• The Puzzle Nook - "use ---ce only as a last resort"

• The Fast 5 - 5 Things to Expect at the Wedding of Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes

• Why American's Still Want to Have a Beer With George Bush

• Activist Ribbons We'd Like to See

• Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds - Dave Chappelle

• Areas of the Star Trek Universe We Never Got to See

• The Updated Library of Extremely Thin Books

• Spam Email Headings You Just Know Are Bullsh*t

• What Your Parents Say / What You Hear

• The President's Dog - pro-choice or pro-life?

MAD's 50 worst things about... Video Games

Department: Prose and consoles

Artist: Peter Bagge Artist: Scott Bricher Artist: Hermann Mejia Artist: Francis Mao Writer: Jacob Lambert Writer: David Shayne Writer: Kenny Byerly Writer: Matthew Schwartz

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Spy vs. Spy

Department: Joke and Dagger

Artist, Writer: Peter Kuper

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12 ways to make divorce easier on kids

Department: Split happens

Artist, Writer: Teresa Burns Parkhurst

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A MAD look at Pets

Department: Serge-In General

Artist, Writer: Sergio Aragonés

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The Strip Club

• Jump Cut

  Artist, Writer: Paul Gilligan

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• The Hero Santon: Law and Order

  Artist, Writer: Don Asmussen

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• How to make a punk smile...

  Artist, Writer: Mo Willems

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• Pondering the really meaningful stuff...

  Artist, Writer: Rob Harrell

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• Fantabulaman

  Artist, Writer: Ted Rall

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Telltale signs that the street gang you're joining ain't all that though

Department: Just say no to thugs

Artist, Writer: John Caldwell

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What's in your living will?

Department: Instant coma's gonna get you

Artist: Tom Bunk Writer: Teresa Burns Parkhurst

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Pre-movie screens we'd like to see

Department: Coming Detractions

Artist: Al Jaffee Writer: Jeff Kruse

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The MAD world of... Dating

Department: Courtship of fools

Artist: Marc Hempel Writer: Stan Sinberg

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Monroe and... Summer School!

Department: Angster's Paradise

Artist: Bill Wray Writer: Anthony Barbieri

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The latest stuff you may (or may not) want to chase down!

Department: Go Fetch!

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Duke Bissell's Tales of undisputed interest

Department: The wizard of odd

Artist, Writer: P.C. Vey

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What celebrities laugh at

Department: That's amuse to me

Artist: Sam Sisco Writer: Bob Wieder

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Back Cover Inside: Fold-In - What's the hot new way many are getting their music?

Artist, Writer: Al Jaffee