| 0 | "Comedy Before Country" Election Issue | cover | 1 | letters: typeset | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 2 | Departments | table of contents | 1 | pencils: various; inks: various; letters: typeset | Alfred E. Neuman; The Joker; John McCain |
| 3 | Random Samplings of Reader Mail | letters page | 2.67 | script: John Ficarra | Alfred E. Neuman; Black Spy; White Spy; Bill Clinton; Jacobus Dixon; Michael Grinspan; Matt Lassen; Jon Marquis; Aaron Sidorov; Laurie Sanford; Erin Miller |
| 6 | - | credits, title page | 0.33 | letters: typeset | |
| 7 | An Important Message From MAD's Director of Business & Development | promo (ad from the publisher) | 1 | script: Jeffrey Lozenge | Jeffrey Lozenge |
| 8 | The Fundalini Pages | comic story | 3 | pencils: various; inks: various; letters: typeset | Joe Biden; Sarah Palin; John McCain; Joe Bitterman; Bill O'Reilly; John Edwards; Jethro Gruntman; Heinrich von Boffo; Dogstar Zamana; Claxton Baker |
| 10 | The Dork Knight | comic story | 6 | script: Desmond Devlin; pencils: Tom Richmond; inks: Tom Richmond | Battyman [Bruce Whine]; The Jokester; Radish Dawson; Harvey Dink; Katie Holmes; Tom Cruse (cameo); Bozo (cameo); Ronald McDonald (cameo); Superman (cameo); Commissioner Walk-on; Neuman; Cookie Monster (cameo) |
| 11 | Mad's Updated Glossary to The War On Terror | comic story | 2 | script: Desmond Devlin; pencils: Paul Coker; inks: Paul Coker | George Bush; Joe Lieberman; Colin Powell; John McCain |
| 12 | A MAD Look at Fortune Tellers | comic story | 4 | script: Sergio Aragonés; pencils: Sergio Aragonés; inks: Sergio Aragonés | |
| 13 | Hopeless | illustration | 2 | letters: typeset | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 14 | MAD Deconstructs TV Talk Shows | comic story | 3 | script: Desmond Devlin; pencils: Peter Kuper; inks: Peter Kuper | Keith Olberman; George W. Bush; John McCain; John Edwards; Andrea Mitchell; Bill O'Reilly |
| 15 | It's Wall-to-Wall Stupidity! | promo (ad from the publisher) | 1 | letters: typeset | Alfred E. Neuman; Bill Clinton |
| 16 | A Look Back At The Historical Career of John McCain | comic story | 3 | pencils: Scott Bricher; inks: Scott Bricher | John McCain; Thomas Jefferson; James Monroe; Meriwether Lewis; William Clark; Sacagawea; Abraham Lincoln; Betsy Ross; Charles Lindberg; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Joseph Stalin |
| 17 | Monroe and...Domestic Terror | comic story | 4 | script: Anthony Barbieri; pencils: Tom Fowler; inks: Tom Fowler; colors: Carl Peterson | Monroe; Monroe's mother; Monroe's father; Monroe's grandfather; Walter; Gustavo |
| 18 | The Strip Club | comic story | 4 | script: Ryan Pagelow, Christopher Baldwin, Glen LeLievre, Joey Sayers, Rob Harrell, John Kovaleski; pencils: Ryan Pagelow, Christopher Baldwin, Glen LeLievre, Joey Sayers, Rob Harrell, John Kovaleski; inks: Ryan Pagelow, Christopher Baldwin, Glen LeLievre, Joey Sayers, Rob Harrell, John Kovaleski; letters: Ryan Pagelow, Christopher Baldwin, Glen LeLievre, Joey Sayers, Rob Harrell, John Kovaleski | |
| 19 | Not Vetting Sarah Palin | illustration | 1 | pencils: ?; ? (photo); inks: ?; ? (photo); colors: ?; ? (photo); letters: typeset | John McCain; Sarah Palin |
| 20 | When Monkeys Go Bad | comic story | 2 | script: John Caldwell; pencils: John Caldwell; inks: John Caldwell | Michael Jackson; Bubbles |
| 21 | - | comic story | 2 | script: Peter Kuper; pencils: Peter Kuper; inks: Peter Kuper | Black Spy; White Spy; Grey Spy |
| 22 | When High School Elections Are Run Like Presidential Elections | comic story | 2 | script: Nathaniel Stein; pencils: Jose Garibaldi; inks: Jose Garibaldi | |
| 24 | Who's Made A Fortune Collecting And Packaging Garbage? | activity | 1 | script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Al Jaffee; inks: Al Jaffee | |
| 25 | Drawn-Out Dramas | comic story | 0 | script: Sergio Aragonés; pencils: Sergio Aragonés; inks: Sergio Aragonés | |