Mad #494 for Sale - First Appearance of Pamela Anderson - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Mad (EC, 1952 series)
Issue: #494
Publication date: October 2008
Key date: 2008-10-00
Indicia publisher: E.C. Publications Inc.
Price: $4.99
Pages: 52

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Pamela Anderson - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	MAD Goes Green!	cover	1	pencils: Mark Fredrickson; inks: Mark Fredrickson	Alfred E. Neuman
2	Departments	table of contents	1	pencils: various; inks: various; letters: typeset	Alfred E. Neuman; Dick Cheney
4	Random Samplings of Reader Mail	letters page	2.17	script: John Ficarra	Pamela Anderson First
5	-	credits, title page	0.33	letters: typeset
7	The Fundalini Pages	comic story	3	pencils: Paul Coker; inks: Paul Coker	Alfred E. Neuman
9	MAD's 50 Worst Things About the Internet	comic story	6	script: Charlie Kadau, Jeff Kruse; pencils: Leonardo Rodriguez, Drew Friedman, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jose Garibaldi, Rick Tulka; inks: Leonardo Rodriguez, Drew Friedman, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jose Garibaldi, Rick Tulka	Tila Tequila; Tay Zonday; Conan O'Brien; Steve Jobs; Steve Ballmer; Perez Hilton
10	The Eerie Similarities Between Family Guy and the Bush White House	comic story	2	script: David Shayne; pencils: Jack Syracuse; inks: Jack Syracuse	George W. Bush, Barack Obama
11	A MAD Look at Cooking Shows	comic story	3	script: Sergio Aragonés; pencils: Sergio Aragonés; inks: Sergio Aragonés
13	Up-and-Coming Mixed Martial Arts Fighters	comic story	2	script: Jeff Kruse; pencils: Hermann Mejía; inks: Hermann Mejía
14	Overheard at the Barack Obama Rally in Germany	comic story	2	pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); colors: ? (photo); letters: typeset	Barack Obama
15	The Darker Side of the Lighter Side	comic story	3	script: Dave Berg; pencils: Dave Berg; inks: Dave Berg	Dave Berg
16	An Important Message from MAD's Director of Business & Development	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Jeffrey Lozenge	Jeffrey Lozenge
17	A Fast Food Customer Satisfaction Survey (That Tells It Like It Is)	comic story	2	script: Scott Maiko; pencils: Peter Bagge; inks: Peter Bagge
18	Spy vs. Spy	comic story	2	script: Peter Kuper; pencils: Peter Kuper; inks: Peter Kuper	Black Spy; White Spy
19	The Pros and Cons of Being a Polygamy Cult Kid	comic story	2	script: John Caldwell; pencils: John Caldwell; inks: John Caldwell
20	Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions	comic story	2	script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Al Jaffee; inks: Al Jaffee; colors: Ryan Flanders
21	MAD Looks at a Crappy Parent's Baby Book	comic story	2	script: Teresa Burns Parkhurst; pencils: Kevin Pope; inks: Kevin Pope
22	Unacknowledged Benefits of the War on Terror	comic story	2	script: Jacob Lambert; pencils: Peter Kuper; inks: Peter Kuper	Keith Olbermann
23	Find Joy in the Little Things in Life!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Don Martin; inks: Don Martin
24	Stuples Newspaper Circular	comic story	4	script: Jeff Kruse; pencils: Scott Bricher; inks: Scott Bricher; colors: Scott Bricher	Barney; Ted Nugent; Barry Mailow; Celine Dion; Ted Kaczynski; Anderson Cooper
25	It's Wall-to-Wall Stupidity!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset	Alfred E. Neuman; Bill Clinton
26	What the Heck Is the Difference?	activity	1	pencils: Basil Wolverton; inks: Basil Wolverton
27	What Types of Increases Provoke the Most Obsessive Media Scrutiny?	activity	1	script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Al Jaffee; inks: Al Jaffee	Barack Obama
28	Drawn-Out Dramas	comic story	0	script: Sergio Aragonés; pencils: Sergio Aragonés; inks: Sergio Aragonés

Plus 5.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Mad #28	2022	On eBay ›
Mad #30	2023	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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