| 0 | Mad | cover | 1 | script: Desmond Devlin; pencils: Sam Viviano; inks: Sam Viviano; letters: Sam Viviano | |
| 1 | 96 Pages of Gut-Wrenching Material | promo (ad from the publisher) | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 2 | - | table of contents | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 3 | - | letters page | 1.1 | pencils: ?; ? [photo]; inks: ?; ? [photo]; letters: typeset | Armin Shimerman (as Quark); Mark Allen Shepherd (as Morn) |
| 4 | - | statement of ownership | 0.25 | script: Anne P. Gaines | |
| 5 | When the Beavis & Butt-head Phenomenon Spreads Into Politics | comic story | 3 | script: Desmond Devlin; pencils: Sam Viviano; inks: Sam Viviano | Joseph Biden; Ted Kennedy; William Rehnquist; Ruth Ginsberg; Dan Quayle; Mario Cuomo; Ross Perot; Jack Kemp; William Bennett; Bob Dole; Dan Rather; Connie Chung; Boris Yeltsin |
| 6 | - | comic story | 1 | script: Russ Cooper; pencils: Dave Manak; inks: Dave Manak | Black Spy; White Spy |
| 7 | Celebrity Self-Delusions | comic story | 2 | script: Lori Kolman; pencils: Rick Tulka; inks: Rick Tulka | Dick Cavett; Michael Jordan; Macaulay Culkin; Luke Perry; Salman Rushdie; Howard Stern; Dan Quayle; Leona Helmsley; George Bush |
| 8 | A Mad Look at Basketball | comic story | 3 | script: Sergio Aragonés; pencils: Sergio Aragonés; inks: Sergio Aragonés | |
| 9 | The Conservative Talk Show Host of the Year | comic story | 4 | script: Stan Hart, Chris Hart; pencils: Paul Coker; inks: Paul Coker | Ed Badly; Rush Windbaugh |
| 10 | The Brutal Baseball Boondoggle | comic story | 1 | script: Duck Edwing; pencils: Duck Edwing; inks: Duck Edwing | |
| 11 | Sentence Length Product Names We'd Like to See | comic story | 2 | script: Mike Snider; pencils: Bob Clarke; inks: Bob Clarke | |
| 12 | Scenes As Played Out in Different Types of Movies | comic story | 2 | script: Terry Copeland; pencils: Tom Bunk; inks: Tom Bunk | |
| 13 | Mad's 7 Steps to Becoming a Hit TV Chef | comic story | 2 | script: John Caldwell; pencils: John Caldwell; inks: John Caldwell; letters: John Caldwell | |
| 14 | What If Superman Were Raised by Jewish Parents? | comic story | 2 | script: Jonathan Bresman; pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker | Superman [Herman Feldstein]; Ma Feldstein [Doris] |
| 15 | John Callahan's Misguided Tour of L.A. | comic story | 3 | script: John Callahan; pencils: John Callahan; inks: John Callahan | |
| 16 | The Lighter Side of... | comic story | 4 | script: Dave Berg; pencils: Dave Berg; inks: Dave Berg | |
| 17 | Snow White as Reviewed by Today's Publications | comic story | 3 | script: Frank Jacobs; pencils: Sam Viviano; inks: Sam Viviano | |
| 18 | Every Single New Year's Eve… | comic story | 2 | script: Desmond Devlin; pencils: Tom Bunk; inks: Tom Bunk | |
| 19 | Shocking "Tell-All" Books by TV-Sitcom Characters | comic story | 2 | script: Mike Snider; pencils: Mort Drucker, Rick Tulka, Sam Viviano, Greg Theakston; inks: Mort Drucker, Rick Tulka, Sam Viviano, Greg Theakston | |
| 20 | 8 Runner-Up Prizes That Nobody Claimed! | comic story | 2 | script: Paul Peter Porges; pencils: Paul Peter Porges; inks: Paul Peter Porges | |
| 21 | The Stooge-itive | comic story | 5 | script: Dick DeBartolo; pencils: Angelo Torres; inks: Angelo Torres | Harrison Ford [as Dr. Richard Cornball]; Jeroem Krabbé [as Dr. Nicotine]; Tommy Lee Jones [as Hotrod]; Andreas Katsulas [as “Slots”] |
| 22 | The Long-suffering Lackey's Lament | comic story | 1 | script: Duck Edwing; pencils: Duck Edwing; inks: Duck Edwing | |
| 23 | Who on TV is Surpassing Rush Limbaugh for Intellectual Social Commentary? | illustration | 1 | script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Al Jaffee; inks: Al Jaffee | |
| 24 | Finally, a Cure for the Common Coffin! | cartoon | 1 | script: Joe Raiola, Charlie Kadau; pencils: James Warhola; inks: James Warhola; colors: James Warhola | |