| 0 | - | cover | 2 | pencils: Sergio Aragonés; inks: Sergio Aragonés | |
| 1 | - | table of contents | 2 | pencils: Jack Rickard; inks: Jack Rickard; colors: Jack Rickard | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 2 | - | comic story | 1 | pencils: Antonio Prohías; inks: Antonio Prohías; colors: Carrie Strachan | |
| 3 | A Preteen's Gateway to R-rated Movies Starring Patton Oswalt | comic story | 1 | script: Patton Oswalt; pencils: Tom Richmond; inks: Tom Richmond; colors: Tom Richmond | |
| 4 | A Mad Look at Mad | comic story | 3 | script: Sergio Aragonés; pencils: Sergio Aragonés; inks: Sergio Aragonés; colors: Carrie Strachan | |
| 5 | Mad A to Z | comic story | 5 | script: Desmond Devlin; pencils: Sergio Aragonés, Brent Engstrom, Hermann Mejía, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond, Johnny Sampson; inks: Sergio Aragonés, Brent Engstrom, Hermann Mejía, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond, Johnny Sampson | |
| 6 | Mad-ieval | comic story | 3 | script: Ian Boothby; pencils: Gideon Kendall; inks: Gideon Kendall | |
| 7 | Joystick Jabberwacky | comic story | 1 | script: Frank Jacobs; pencils: George Woodbridge; inks: George Woodbridge | |
| 8 | The Mad Clearance Catalog of Unwanted Articles, Features, Gimmicks and Premises | comic story | 3 | script: Frank Jacobs; pencils: Jack Rickard; inks: Jack Rickard | |
| 9 | Perfect Rewards for Mad's Top Devotees | comic story | 2 | script: Teresa Burns Parkhurst; pencils: Teresa Burns Parkhurst; inks: Teresa Burns Parkhurst; colors: Teresa Burns Parkhurst | |
| 10 | Mad's Tom Bunk Visits the Senior Mad Home | illustration | 2 | script: Tom Bunk; pencils: Tom Bunk; inks: Tom Bunk; colors: Tom Bunk; letters: Tom Bunk | |
| 11 | Guide to Some Very Obscure Comics Sound Effects | comic story | 4 | script: Don Edwing; pencils: Don Martin; inks: Don Martin | Aquaman, Batman, Andy Capp, John Clayton, Hägar the Horrible, Hulk, Human Torch, Iron Man, Fritz Katzenjammer, Hans Katzenjammer, Clark Kent, Little Orphan Annie, Eel O'Brian, Alley Oop |
| 12 | Spy vs Spy | illustration | 2 | pencils: Peter Kuper; inks: Peter Kuper; colors: Peter Kuper | |
| 13 | The World’s Greatest Thinkers Go to a Baseball Game | comic story | 2 | script: Andrew J. Schwartzberg; pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker | Albert Einstein, Larry Fine, Sigmund Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Curly Howard, Moe Howard, Moses, Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare, Bart Simpson, Socrates |
| 14 | Where's Alfred? | activity | 2 | script: Hurricane Ivan; pencils: Hurricane Ivan; inks: Hurricane Ivan; colors: Hurricane Ivan | |
| 15 | Mad's Guide to "Traditional" Anniversary Gifting | comic story | 2 | script: Tammy Golden; pencils: Jon Adams; inks: Jon Adams; colors: Jon Adams | |
| 16 | You Might Be In an Unhealthy Relationship with Mad If... | comic story | 2 | script: Brockton McKinney; pencils: Hermann Mejía; inks: Hermann Mejía; colors: Hermann Mejía | |
| 17 | Mad's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions | comic story | 3 | script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Al Jaffee; inks: Al Jaffee | |
| 18 | The Stupido | comic story | 4 | script: Desmond Devlin; pencils: Tom Richmond; inks: Tom Richmond; colors: Tom Richmond | |
| 19 | Presenting the Original Mad Cover, and One Mad Moment Later | illustration | 4 | script: Don Edwing; pencils: Jack Rickard; inks: Jack Rickard | |
| 20 | 600 Mad Issues From Now | comic story | 2 | script: Ivan Ehlers; pencils: Ivan Ehlers; inks: Ivan Ehlers; colors: Ivan Ehlers | |
| 21 | A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a Ripoff Mail-Order House | comic story | 2 | script: Dick DeBartolo; pencils: Jack Davis; inks: Jack Davis | |
| 22 | Mad Puzzle Page | activity | 2 | script: Kerry Callen; pencils: Kerry Callen; inks: Kerry Callen; colors: Kerry Callen | |
| 23 | Pgs. 22-23: Mad's Tom Bunk Visits the Senior Mad Home / Pgs. 32-33: Where's Alfred Clue | illustration | 1 | pencils: Tom Bunk, Hurricane Ivan; inks: Tom Bunk, Hurricane Ivan; colors: Hurricane Ivan | |
| 24 | What's Next for Mad Magazine? | activity | 1 | script: Johnny Sampson; pencils: Johnny Sampson; inks: Johnny Sampson; colors: Johnny Sampson | |