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Title:
USA MAD Magazine #31
Cover:
Ernie Kovacs explains poetry, Al “Jazzbo” Collins explains jazz, and Orson Bean explains Orson Bean
Cover Artist:
Norman Mingo

Publisher:
E.C. Publications, Inc.
Editor:
Al Feldstein
Date:
February 1957
Original Price:
25 cent
Pages:
48
Bonus:
-

Additional information:

Table of contents:
Page 2
Department: Increase the Circulation
The New Marilyn Marone
Artist: Wallace Wood

Page 4
Department: Letters
Random samplings of reader mail

Page 6
Department: Call of the Wild Magazine
Magazine satire: ‘Field and Scream’
Writer: Harvey Kurtzman
Artist: Bill Elder

Page 11
Department: Hollywood
Scenes We’d Like to See – 'One Against Four'
Writer and artist: Phil Interlandi

Page 12
Department: Newspapers
Item
Writer: G. Stang

Page 15
Department: Ernie Kovacs
Why I Write Poetry – By Percy Dovetonsils
Writer: Ernie Kovacs
Artist: Jack Davis

Page 18
Department: Pick-a-Card Part 1
MAD Greeting Cards
Artist: Bob Clarke

Page 20
Department: Ear-to-the-Ether
What They’re Saying Around the Solar System
Artist: Basil Wolverton

Page 22
Department: Al “Jazzbo” Collins
What’s All This Jazz About Jazz?
Writer: Al “Jazzbo” Collins
Artist: Wallace Wood

Page 28
Department: Soft-Sell Part 1
Future TV Ads
Writer and artist: Don Martin

Page 30
Department: Psychology
Take the MAD Ink Blot Test
Artists: Frank Kelly Freas and Bill Elder

Page 32
Department: Culture
“Don Giovanni”, Comic Opera
Writer: Nick Meglin
Artists: Wallace Wood and Jack Davis

Page 36
Department: Soft-Sell Part 2
Future TV Ads
Writer and artist: Don Martin

Page 38
Department: Negative Thinking
Why the Precision Engineering, Highly Perfected 35mm Camera Replaces the Simple, Unpretentious, Primitive Box Camera
Artist: Bob Clarke

Page 41
Department: Orson Bean
Orson Bean Opens His Family Album
Writers: Orson Bean and Alen Robin
Artist: Jack Davis

Page 48
Department: Pick-a-Card Part 2
MAD Greeting Cards
Artist: Bob Clarke

Various places around the magazine
Department: Misdirected Quotes
Purloined Proverbs Ascribed to Popular People

Back Cover
MAD Travel Stickers
Artist: Bob Clarke