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Mad #21 (2021) · The Collector

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EC
Mad (2018)
#21

EC#21

Mad

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Mad #21

Publisher: EC
Cover date: October 2021
On sale: Aug 3, 2021
Cover price: $5.99
Pages: 60

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Stories

18 titled

1The Mad Baseball Primer
2Casey at the Bat!
3Horrifying Sports Clichés
4Outdoor Sports Indoors
5Little Known (and Rarely Called) Sports Infractions
6A Mad Look at Basketball
7Mad Magazine Introduces 43-Man Squamish
8The Mad World of... Sports
9A Mad Look at Skydiving
10Making Games More Dangerous
11Best of the Lighter Side of... Sports
12The Karocky Kid
13Drama on Page 45
14A Sports Fan/A Sports Fanatic
15When Other Sports Figures Co-Star with Cartoon Characters in Movies
16Using Sports Equipment In Everyday Life
17The Mad Sports Fan Hate Book
18Why These Sluggers Belt Every Pitch with TEA, the "pot" refresher

Credits

Writers: Stan Hart, Harvey Kurtzman, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Don Edwing, Frank Jacobs, Al Jaffee, Mike Snider, Sergio Aragonés, Tom Koch, Stan Sinberg, Dick DeBartolo, Tom Cheney, Dave Berg, Arnie Kogen, John Caldwell, Desmond Devlin, Paul Peter Porges, Lou Silverstone
Pencillers: Jack Rickard, Jack Davis, Dave Manak, Paul Coker, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonés, George Woodbridge, Marc Hempel, Tom Cheney, Dave Berg, Angelo Torres, Sam Viviano, John Caldwell, Paul Peter Porges, Lester Krauss
Inkers: Jack Rickard, Jack Davis, Dave Manak, Paul Coker, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonés, George Woodbridge, Marc Hempel, Tom Cheney, Dave Berg, Angelo Torres, Sam Viviano, John Caldwell, Paul Peter Porges, Lester Krauss
Letterers: Dave Manak, Sergio Aragonés
Cover: Mark Fredrickson
Cover colors: Mark Fredrickson

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Art director: Suzy Hutchinson

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