Mad #304 (Nick Meglin and John Ficarra) - Goose Madonna Issue - July 1991

Canadian artist Richard Williams has drawn 62 covers for Mad (through December 2007).  For this issue, he drew the lovely Madonna getting a reach-around (the hard way) from Alfred E. Neuman.  The cover was based on an idea by Paul Sollicito who apparently never had an other idea.  Inside, Mort Drucker drew Ms. Ciccione and others for "A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a Madonna Video" by associate editors Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola.  The better article was "Deadwood Scissorham" but Dick DeBartolo's movie parody of Edward Scissorhands seems to fizzle at the end.  The drawings by Angelo Torres save the article with guest appearances by Frankenstein's monster, Michael Jackson, Freddie Krueger, Big Bird, Sinead O'Connor, the Simpsons, Dan Quayle and Robocop.  I like the police lineup with the clippers, the Swiss army knife and the electric mixer.  It was a good parody but I just needed a better ending. [JAM 1/18/2012]

Look for Mad staffers and so much other stuff in "Rotten Places Where Waldo Really Would Have to Hide"

Departments: 
Hear No Evil, Speak No, Pacino Evil - The Oddfather Part III
Chop Schtick - Drama on Page 9
Scars And Gripes - America ... Land of Opportunity
Sleuth Decay - Modern Day Clue Game Cards Ripped from Today's Headlines
Tales From the Duck Side - The Pitiful Postal Peril; The Masterful Mess-Hall Melee; The Dorky Downhill Distortion
Feeble Attractions - New and Improved Store Kiddie Rides
Just a Phrase We're Going Through - More Same Words Different Circumstances
Re-Enacts to Grind - Unsolved Miseries
Unlike a Virgin - A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a Madonna Video
Berg's-Eye View - The Lighter Side
Unseen We'd Like to See - Rotten Places Where Waldo Really Would Have to Hide
Hart Burn - Mad's Video Reviews
Your Days Are Limbered - Daily Aerobic Routines Without Costly Videotapes
Joke And Dagger - Spy vs. Spy
Frank on a Roll - Modern Day Dinosaurs We Wish Were Extinct
A Trip to Sever-Sever Land - Deadwood Scissorham

Fold-In - Skull