On the Stands: MAD #9!

Arriving in subscribers mailboxes now, on news stands (one last time) tomorrow and in comic book shops everywhere Wednesday!

• Cover (Tom Richmond)
• MAD Straight Jacket Ad (reprinted from various, first appeared in MAD #46)
• Letters Page (Ed.)
• Lousy Law (Andrew Secunda, Tom Richmond)
• Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
• The Lighter Side of (Tammy Golden, Jon Adams)
• Cartoon Scenes We’d Like to See (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Carrie Strachan)
• Shorts & Briefs
  • Panel Cartoon (Anya Davidson)
  • Woodstock Puzzle (Charlie Kadau)
  • Panel Cartoon (P.C. Vey)
  • Panel Cartoon (Charlie Hankin)
  • Panel Cartoon (Jon Adams)
  • Panel Cartoon (Lars Kenseth)
  • Signs She’s Not Into You (Arie Kaplan, A Person, Colors: Nathan Kane)
  • Signs He’s WAY TOO Into You (Ivan Ehlers, A Person, Colors: Nathan Kane)
  • Panel Cartoon (Drew Panckeri)
  • Hot Summer Romance Tips for Incels (Ivan Ehlers)
  • What People in Starbucks are Really Working On (Kenny Keil, Dalton Vaughn)
• Batman Funnies (Kerry Callen)
• A MAD Look at Vegetarians (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Carrie Strachan)
• Snappy Answers Internet Comments to Stupid Honest Questions (Matt Cohen, Johnny Sampson)
• Pokémon: Accountant Squirtle (Grant Reed, Paulina Ganucheau)
• Meanwhile… (Ian Boothby, Pia Guerra)
• The Wisenheim Museum (Rick Tulka)
• The Great Trump Beastiary (David Seidman, Leonardo Rodriguez)
• The Monotonous Mrs. Mazel (Charlie Kadau, Sam Viviano)
• Hot Horror Planet (Andrew Goldfarb)
• When Disney Adds FOX to Disneyland (Jon Gutierrez, Matt Carlson)
• Let’s Have Fun with Family Camping Trips! (Teresa Burns Parkhurst)
• William Shakespeare App Dater (Jesse Koester, Ed Steckley)
• What if Batman were Actually 80 Years Old? (Arie Kaplan, Pete Woods)
• The Inseparable, Insufferable Couple (Johnny Sampson)
• The MADifesto (Joe Butler)
• NETFLECCHS! (Blaine Capatch, Ryan Flanders)
• National Lampoon’s MAD’s How to Stay Safe on Summer Vacation (Dick DeBartolo, Pat Moriarty)
• Behind the Scenes of Dizzy’s The Lion King (Akilah Hughes, Tom Richmond)
• Anthropologie Exit Survey (Lars Kenseth)
• Meanwhile… (Ian Boothby, Pia Guerra)
• Real, Dumb (Mike Holmes, submitted by Brian Atkins)
• The MAD Fold-In (Al Jaffee, reprinted from MAD #111)
• Drawn Out Dramas (Sergio Aragonés)
• Back Cover- Cadillac Jewlery Ad (Kelly Freas, reprinted from MAD #65)

Note the triumphant return of Sam Viviano and Charlie Kadau to the world of TV parodies with the spoof of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”. While Charlie last wrote a parody a mere 11 years ago with “Deathster” in MAD #490 (June 2008), Sam’s last full blown MAD movie/TV parody was WAAAAAAY back in 1998 with #376’s “Hollowscream- It’s 2 Slow”.

This is the big Tarantino issue with my cover and a 5 page parody of the fictitious “Bounty Law” show from the film, written by Emmy nominated writer from “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, “The Goldbergs”, etc., Andrew Secunda. Tomorrow I’ll post part three of “The Tarantino Story” (for all three of you who are not sick of hearing me talk about it) with the low down on how we did a parody of a TV show that never existed and how I approached making it look like a 1960’s spoof. I also did a 5 page spoof (sort of) of The Lion King written by author, comedian and YouTuber Akilah Hughes.

Now, what are you waiting for??? Go out and buy the issue, clod!