MAD Magazine #493

Contents Page

Page: 1

Letters

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The Fundalini Pages

• List of all contributors

  Author: Dick DeBartolo Author: Peter Bagge Author: Jacob Lambert Author: Gary Hallgren Author: Rick Tulka Author: Jeff Kruse Author: Darren Johnson Author: Tom Cheney Author: Jonathan Edwards Author: Zachary Baldus Author: Joe Quinones

  Page: 8

• Ways to Avoid Paying to Check a Suitcase When You Fly

• Calvin and Jobs - our most valued customers

• Pull My Cheney! - "Is he...Is he..."

• Lost and Found Pets

• The Godfrey Report

• Dregslist "Dissed Connections"

• Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds - Miley Cyrus

• Answers to Last Month's "Impossible Coin Toss Conundrum"

• Tips for Coping With a Heat Wave

• Rejected Comic Strips: The Unfunny World of Grant Dullard

• Rejected Comic Strips: Amnesia Cop

• Rejected Comic Strips: Don Sequitur

Barack Obama - The 46-Year-Old Political Virgin

Department: A MAD Political Poster

Inadiaper Jones and the Kingdom of the Creative Dry Spell

Department: An Indy Film

Artist: Hermann Mejia Writer: Arnie Kogen

Page: 12

A Mad Look At Summer Fun

Department: Serge-In General

Artist, Writer: Sergio Aragonés

Page: 18

Amy by Amy Winehouse

Department: Crack is Aack!

Artist: Gary Hallgren

Page: 22

Planet TAD!!!!!

Department: In Blog we Trust

Writer: Tim Carvell

Page: 25

Spy vs. Spy

Department: Joke and Dagger

Artist, Writer: Peter Kuper

Page: 26

In Stores This Week - Now That's What I Call Monotony! 29

Writer: Darren Johnson

Page: 28

Monroe and... the New Phone

Department: Angster's Paradise

Writer: Anthony Barbieri Artist: Tom Fowler

Page: 29

Subscription Advertisement - Jeffrey Lozenge dressed as an astronaut

Writer: Joe Raiola Photographer: Irving Schild

Page: 33

When the Recession Hits Funeral Homes

Department: The High Corpse of Living

Artist, Writer: Teresa Burns Parkhurst

Page: 34

Mad Heads For The Hills Outtakes

Department: Lauren Order

Page: 36

The Mad World of... Travel

Department: Trip Tease

Artist: Marc Hempel Writer: Stan Sinberg

Page: 38

John McCain - No Country For Old Man

Department: A MAD Political Poster

Page: 41

Advertisement for Mad Kids

Page: 42

The Chronic-Ills of Yawnia - Prince Thespian

Department: Whose Lion is it anyway?

Writer: Dick DeBartolo Artist: Mort Drucker

Page: 44

What The Heck is the Difference?

Department: Observation Dreck

Page: 48

Drawn Out Dramas (Various Places around the Magazine)

Artist, Writer: Sergio Aragonés

Back Cover Inside: Fold-In - What horrific disaster is leaving many experts feeling bewildered and helpless?

Artist, Writer: Al Jaffee