Introduction / David Mikics
Growing up MAD / Mary Fleener
The golden age is twelve dept / Ivan Cohen
Stark raving MAD / Geoffrey O'Brien
A MAD childhood / Roz Chast
The world according to MAD Magazine / Tim Kreider
H. Kurtzman / Peter Kuper
Cahiers du CinéMAD / Grady Hendrix
MAD love / Art Spiegelman
Preface to Gaines / Frank Jacobs
What a load of craft! / R. Sikoryak
High holy MAD / Liel Leibovitz
Reverse immigrant / Mary-Lou Weisman
Jaffee in Yiddish / Leah Garrett
MADness in Anatolia / Michael Benson
Brueghel of the Bronx / Daniel Bronstein
MAD's Jewish America / Nathan Abrams
With a little bit of ecch: MAD and the movie musical / David Hajdu
MAD and the insurrectionists / Clifford Thompson
"Spy vs Spy" vs. Prohías / Bonnie Altucher
Mind the gap / Sarah Boxer
MAD, the '50s, and the '60s: a (slightly) dissident view / Adam Gopnik
The "obscure and awesome" women cartoonists of MAD / Rachel Shteir
To Antarctica and back / Chris Ware
Here we go with our own execrable simulacrum: MAD fold-in / Jonathan Lethem and Mark Allen.