MAD MAGAZINE NO. 99 /DECEMBER '65

THE FAMOUS SPECIAL HYPNOTIC ISSUE!!! Mad #99 December 1965 Cover Artist: Norman Mingo When Politicians Do TV Commercials Mad's Snappy Answers to Those Old Cliches Don Martin -- Three Hairy Stories, The Rime of the Modern Surfer Dave Berg -- The Lighter Side of Moving Spy Vs. Spy Horror Movie Scenes We'd Like to See The Virginiaham (TV Satire) Boxing Foto-Plays Mad Interviews the Greeting Card Manufacturer of the Year Let's Humanize Those Automated Machines A Celebrity's Wallet - Featuring Soupy Sales A Mad Guide to the Wildlife of our American Highways Football "In Depth" (TV Satire) Fold-In -- What Wild Frenzy Will Future College Students Face? Back Cover -- The Day They Forgot to Put the Top Down for the Hertz Commercial Mad is an influential American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. The last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed EC Comics line, the magazine offers satire on all aspects of American life and pop culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures. Its format is divided into a number of recurring segments such as TV and movie parodies, as well as freeform articles. Mad's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is typically the focal point of the magazine's cover, with his face often replacing a celebrity or character that is lampooned within the issue. Comics historian Tom Spurgeon picked Mad as the medium's top series of all time, writing, "At the height of its influence, Mad was The Simpsons, The Daily Show and The Onion combined." Graydon Carter chose it as the sixth best magazine of any sort ever, describing Mad's mission as being "ever ready to pounce on the illogical, hypocritical, self-serious and ludicrous" before concluding, "Nowadays, it's part of the oxygen we breathe." Joyce Carol Oates called it "wonderfully inventive, irresistibly irreverent and intermittently ingenious American."