MAD Magazine #492

Contents Page

Page: 1

Random Samplings of Reader Mail

Department: Letters and Tomatoes

Page: 2

The Fundalini Pages

• List of all contributors

  Author: Desmond Devlin Author: Scott Nickel Author: Jacob Lambert Author: Jack Syracuse Author: Hermann Mejia Author: Kevin Pope Author: Rick Tulka Author: Jeff Kruse Author: Garth Gerhart Author: Barry Liebmann Author: Darren Johnson Author: Dave Hanson

  Page: 8

• Are You A Celebrity or Are You A Celebutard?

• The Godfrey Report

• Things Hillary Clinton Supporters Can be Happy About

• Solution to Last Month's "Mini-Mystery" - tapioca in his pants

• Fundalini Presents Excerpts from: Movie Screw-Ups - A Clueless, Anal-Retentive Guide to Cinema

• The Fast 5 - Ways That You Can Protest China's Human Rights Violations

• Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to the Ballpark

• Least E-Mailed Articles

• Plugged Nickel - Amish of the future

• Words That Would Appear in Ads for Air Sickness Bags if They Were Advertised like Other Products

• Letters to the Editor Around America

• Bitterman - shoulder injury from bowling

• Fundalini Goes to the MTV Movie Awards

MAD's international preview of the Beijing Olympics

Department: Let the games be grim

Artist: Tom Bunk Writer: Desmond Devlin

Page: 12

The Knockout

Department: A MAD political poster

Artist: Mark Fredrickson

Page: 15

Subscription Advertisement - Jeffrey Lozenge dressed as a lobster

Writer: Joe Raiola Photographer: Irving Schild

Ironic, Man (Iron Man Parody)

Department: Downey Syndrome

Writer: Desmond Devlin Artist: Tom Richmond

Page: 17

10 easy ways to beat high gas prices and increase your mileage

Department: A Fuel's Errand

Writer: Dick DeBartolo Artist: Tim Hamilton

Page: 22

Spy vs. Spy

Department: Joke and Dagger

Artist, Writer: Peter Kuper

Page: 26

Movie Posters for the rest of the movie experience

Department: Coming Distractions

Writer: Russ Cooper Artist: Scott Bricher

Page: 28

MAD's cocky, but handy Hancock outtakes

Department: Lack of Will's Power

Page: 30

Calvin and Jobs

Department: Apple of four ire

Writer: Jacob Lambert Artist: Gary Hallgren

Page: 32

Field Guide to spotting America's most incompetent summer camp counselors

Department: S'Morons

Artist, Writer: John Caldwell

Page: 34

A MAD look at this summers Super Heroes

Department: Serge-In General

Artist, Writer: Sergio Aragonés

Page: 37

Sucker City Newspaper Circular

Department: Flyer Beware

Artist: Scott Bricher Writer: Scott Maiko

Page: 41

The Strip Club

• Me, Myself and my puppet

  Artist, Writer: John Kovaleski

  Page: 45

• Father O'Flannity's hot tub confessions with Ed Norton as The Hulk!

  Artist, Writer: Keith Knight

  Page: 45

• Rob, the evil, backstabbing, robot temp

  Artist, Writer: Corey Pandolph

  Page: 46

• Scooby-Don't

  Artist, Writer: Jason Yungbluth

  Page: 46

• Fantabulaman

  Artist, Writer: Ted Rall

  Page: 47

Back Cover Inside: Fold-In - What is the one hero fans never seem to tire of?

Artist, Writer: Al Jaffee