MAD Magazine #444

Contents Page

Random Samplings of Reader Mail

Department: Letters and Tomatoes

Page: 2

The Fundalini Pages

• List of all contributors

  Author: Tom Bunk Author: Desmond Devlin Author: Don Edwing Author: Ray Alma Author: Jack Syracuse Author: Gary Hallgren Author: Scott Bricher Author: John Caldwell Author: P.C. Vey Author: Jeff Kruse Author: Scott Maiko Author: Steve Rosso Author: Garth Gerhart Author: Tom Cheney Author: Mike Snider Author: Patrick Merrel

  Page: 8

• Initial Steps by the U.S. Government to Improve Conditions at Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison

• If Peter Parker had been Bitten by Other Radioactive Creatures

• Personal Ad of the Month - Arnie: observational stand-up comic

• Bitterman - drunk sleeping at the dinner table

• Classified Ads

• The Godfrey Report

• The Cover We Didn't Use - We Piss Off Spiderman!

• Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - Paris Hilton

• Graphic Novel Review - Incredi-Man Archives

• New Technology Culled From Downed Alien Spacecraft

• The Puzzle Nook - "---ger never solved anything"

• Pull My Cheney!

• After Devoting an Entire Broadcast to Reading the Names of U.S. Iraqi War Casualties... What Other Gimmicks is Ted Koppel Planning for Nightline?

• The First Five Guys in Line to See Spider-Man 2

Las Vaguest ( Las Vegas Parody)

Department: Casino Evil

Artist: Mort Drucker Writer: Charlie Kadau

Page: 12

MAD's heroically-awful Spider-man 2 outtakes

Department: Tobey or not tobey

Page: 18

Only a democratcould possibly believe...

Department: Tenets, Anyone? Part 1

Artist: Paul Coker, Jr. Writer: Russ Cooper

Page: 20

Monroe and... Europe (Part 1)

Department: Angster's Paradise

Artist: Bill Wray Writer: Anthony Barbieri

Page: 22

The last supper

Department: A MAD Ad Poster

Artist: Richard Williams

Page: 26

A cell phone-camera Geek's photo album

Department: A picture is worth a thousand nerds

Artist: Drew Friedman Writer: Mike Snider

Page: 28

Spider-Man has a bad week

Department: Taking one day at a climb

Artist: Kevin Pope Writer: Arie Kaplan

Page: 31

You know a Rapper's gone soft when...

Department: Wimpin' ain't easy

Writer: Joe Raiola Artist: Hermann Mejia

Page: 32

A MAD look at Space Exploration

Department: Serge-In General

Artist, Writer: Sergio Aragonés

Page: 34

Only a republican clould possibly believe...

Department: Tenets, anyone? Part 2

Artist: Paul Coker, Jr. Writer: Russ Cooper

Page: 38

Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions

Department: All Jaffee

Artist, Writer: Al Jaffee Colorist: Wildstorm

Page: 40

Duke Bissell's Tales of undisputed interest

Department: The Wizard of Odd

Artist, Writer: P.C. Vey

Page: 43

How to think like a Superstar

Department: Pompous and Circumstance

Artist: Bob Staake Writer: Barry Liebmann

Page: 44

Spy vs.Spy

Department: Joka and Dagger

Artist, Writer: Peter Kuper

Page: 46

From the case files of Wanda Goldstein Flenkman: Pet Psychologist

Department: It's 'splaining cats and dogs

Artist, Writer: Teresa Burns Parkhurst

Page: 48

Pet Peeves of Spider-Man's girlfriend

Department: Insects and the single girl

Artist, Writer: John Caldwell

Page: 50

Back Cover Inside: Fold-In - What will be the most grueling event in the upcoming olympics?

Artist, Writer: Al Jaffee