| 0 | Fair / Foul | cover | 1 | pencils: Kelly Freas; inks: Kelly Freas; colors: Kelly Freas | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 1 | What? You Say I'm Not Covered? | comic story | 1 | script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Lester Krauss; inks: Lester Krauss | |
| 2 | Departments | foreword, introduction, preface, afterword | 1 | pencils: various (see Notes); inks: various (see Notes); letters: typeset | |
| 3 | Have Your Own MAD Show With This Half-Baked Cast | promo (ad from the publisher) | 0.33 | pencils: Lester Krauss; inks: Lester Krauss | |
| 4 | Here's The Seventh Wonder Of The World! | promo (ad from the publisher) | 0.17 | pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); letters: typeset | |
| 5 | Random Samplings of Reader Mail | letters page | 1 | script: Albert B. Feldstein, Mike Brown, Robert Davis; pencils: Wallace Wood, George Woodbridge; inks: Wallace Wood, George Woodbridge | unnamed Marine; Alfred Hatchplot |
| 6 | You'll Have A Deuce Of A Time With Your Subscription To MAD | promo (ad from the publisher) | 0.17 | letters: typeset | |
| 7 | Feeling Low Lately? | promo (ad from the publisher) | 0.28 | pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); letters: typeset | |
| 8 | This Is The End Of Them! | promo (ad from the publisher) | 0.05 | pencils: Norman Mingo; inks: Norman Mingo | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 9 | Pictures The Editor Left Out | comic story | 4 | script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Joe Orlando; inks: Joe Orlando | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 10 | The concert | comic story | 2 | script: Don Martin; pencils: Don Martin; inks: Don Martin | Mandrake S. Bach |
| 11 | MAD Beats The TV Plug Crackdown | text story | 2 | script: Paul Krassner; pencils: Bob Clarke; inks: Bob Clarke | Gary Moore; Mr. Shnook; Chester Riley; Mrs. Riley; Bob Hope |
| 12 | The MAD Madison Avenue Primer | text story | 3 | script: Larry Siegel; pencils: Wallace Wood; inks: Wallace Wood | |
| 13 | The Arthur Money Party | comic story | 4 | script: Larry Siegel; pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker | Kathleen Money; The Arthur Money Dancers [Rhoda Pfeffer; Lewis Eskin]; Jawaharlal Nehru; Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev; Fred Astep; Ed Sullivan |
| 14 | Cigarette Geography | text story | 3 | script: Sy Reit; pencils: Bob Clarke; inks: Bob Clarke | |
| 15 | Literal Translations of Figurative Speech | comic story | 2 | script: Dave Berg; pencils: Lester Krauss; inks: Lester Krauss | |
| 16 | I.B.M. Cards | text story | 4 | script: Frank Jacobs; pencils: Joe Orlando; inks: Joe Orlando | Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, Alfred E. Neuman |
| 17 | In A Greasy Spoon Diner | comic story | 1 | script: Don Martin; pencils: Don Martin; inks: Don Martin | |
| 18 | Popular Politician | comic story | 6 | script: Gary Belkin; pencils: George Woodbridge; inks: George Woodbridge | Charles de Gaulle, Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon, Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey First, Nelson Rockefeller First |
| 19 | The Jackie Talented Story | comic story | 4 | script: Sid Caesar; pencils: Wallace Wood; inks: Wallace Wood | Sid Caesar [Jackie Talented]; J. P. Starmaker; Jackie's father; Tony; Vera Brassy; Helen Zigfried |
| 20 | Barber Shop | comic story | 3 | script: Dave Berg; pencils: Dave Berg; inks: Dave Berg | |
| 21 | Mother's Day Cards | text article | 2 | script: Frank Jacobs; pencils: Bob Clarke; inks: Bob Clarke | Blackbeard First, John Wilkes Booth, Al Capone, Nero |
| 22 | The "Hip" Raven | text story | 5 | script: Paul Laikin, Edgar Allan Poe; pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker | |
| 23 | More MAD "Y'OX" | text story | 0 | letters: typeset | Marginal Marvin |
| 24 | Have Yourself A Political Party | promo (ad from the publisher) | 1 | pencils: George Woodbridge; inks: George Woodbridge | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 25 | How Many Ways Can He Hurt Himself Today? | comic story | 1 | pencils: Kelly Freas; inks: Kelly Freas; colors: Kelly Freas | |