Mad Special [Mad Super Special] 1970 #20 - back issue - $6.00

A man on the brink of suicide is visited by his fairy godmother.

In a parody of the film "The Godfather," a Mafia Don's son is reluctantly recruited into the family business due to an attempt on his father's life.

Examples of genre magazines using the style of cover layout popularized by "Cosmopolitan" publisher Helen Gurley Brown.

Examples of household life in prehistoric days.

A look at the state of religion in the United States, presented in the style of a children's reading primer.

Postcards from odd people on vacation.

The humorous trials and tribulations of commercial flying.

A member of a tribe of headhunters comes up with a new game.

Examples of how your life changes after a divorce.

A magazine that focuses on the monetary side of pro football.

Various hunter types and hunting situations are satirized.

Examples of students writing home for money that don't sound like an appeal for money.

The humorous result of a diner's reliance on jargon.

Examples of props you're sure to find in specific movie genres.

Alfred gives sarcastic responses to the tag lines of famous television commercials.

The White Spy booby-traps The Black Spy's gloves.

Generic templates of political campaign positions with fill-in-the-blanks to tailor them to specific situations.

The behind the scenes antics of the employees of a local utility are depicted.

At a bullfight, neither the matador nor the bull are what they seem.

An ode, patterned after Ernest Lawrence Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat", to the importance of announcer Howard Cosell to the popularity of ABC's Monday Night Football.

Silly situations associated with auto garages and gas stations.

Examples of how people spend or misspend their summers.

The White Spy sets a trap for The Black Spy.

Personalized birth announcements for specific types of people.

In a parody of the TV series "Medical Center," this story is a drama about a metropolitan hospital that is more concerned with a patient's back story than his or her condition.

Two witnesses attempt to get a man run over by a steamroller to the hospital as quickly as possible.

Legalized marijuana would be a threat to this industry.

A smoker gets some bad news with his chest x-ray.

• The Fairy Godmother - Inside front cover.
• Profitable Football News - Howard Cosell's face appears on a talking alarm clock found in the souvenir section of the magazine.
• Whose Life Would Be Seriously Endangered If Pot Were Legalized? - Inside back cover.
• America's Final Cigarette Break - Back cover.