| 0 | Buy Mad... and Have a Ball! | cover | 1 | pencils: Bob Clarke; inks: Bob Clarke; colors: Bob Clarke | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 1 | Watch Out for This One! | photo story | 1 | pencils: Lester Krauss; inks: Lester Krauss | |
| 2 | Departments | table of contents | 1 | letters: typeset | |
| 3 | Hex Marks the Spot | promo (ad from the publisher) | 0.3 | pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); letters: typeset | |
| 4 | Cheaper Than Ever! | promo (ad from the publisher) | 0.05 | pencils: Norman Mingo; inks: Norman Mingo | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 5 | - | letters page | 1 | script: Albert B. Feldstein | Alfred E. Neuman |
| 6 | Help Us to Clear Our Heads! | promo (ad from the publisher) | 0.15 | pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); letters: typeset | |
| 7 | Two for the Hee-Haw! | promo (ad from the publisher) | 0.3 | pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); letters: typeset | |
| 8 | - | promo (ad from the publisher) | 0.2 | pencils: Giuseppe Baggi; inks: Giuseppe Baggi | |
| 9 | Labels We Should've Seen | photo story | 4 | script: Dick De Bartolo; pencils: Lester Krauss; inks: Lester Krauss | |
| 10 | Drawn Out Dramas | cartoon | 0 | script: Sergio Aragonés; pencils: Sergio Aragonés; inks: Sergio Aragonés | |
| 11 | New Movie Monsters From Everyday Life | comic story | 3 | script: E. Nelson Bridwell; pencils: Joe Orlando; inks: Joe Orlando | |
| 12 | The Class Program | comic story | 1 | script: Don Martin; pencils: Don Martin; inks: Don Martin | |
| 13 | On the Beach | comic story | 2 | script: Phil Hahn; pencils: Jack Rickard; inks: Jack Rickard | |
| 14 | If Modern Comedians Performed For Civilizations in the Past | comic story | 5 | script: Arnie Kogen; pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker | Bob Hope |
| 15 | - | comic story | 1 | script: Antonio Prohías; pencils: Antonio Prohías; inks: Antonio Prohías | The Black Spy, The White Spy |
| 16 | The Lighter Side of Summer Camp | comic story | 4 | script: David Berg; pencils: David Berg; inks: David Berg | |
| 17 | Another Brain Operation | comic story | 1 | script: Don Martin; pencils: Don Martin; inks: Don Martin | |
| 18 | The Mad Plan for Beating TV Commercial-Breaks | comic story | 5 | script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Bob Clarke; inks: Bob Clarke | |
| 19 | Mad's Wonder Drugs for Common Teenage Ailments | comic story | 3 | script: Stan Hart; pencils: George Woodbridge; inks: George Woodbridge | |
| 20 | Off the Deep End | comic story | 1 | script: Sergio Aragonés; pencils: Jack Rickard; inks: Jack Rickard | |
| 21 | If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Ordinary People | comic story | 4 | script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Wallace Wood; inks: Wallace Wood | B.C., Charlie Brown, Little Orphan Annie, Lothar, Mandrake, Alice Mitchell, Dennis the Menace, Henry Mitchell, Snoopy, Superman, Dick Tracy, Linus Van Pelt, Lucy Van Pelt, Daddy Warbucks |
| 22 | A Mad Look at Motorcycle Cops | comic story | 2 | script: Sergio Aragonés; pencils: Sergio Aragonés; inks: Sergio Aragonés | |
| 23 | - | comic story | 1 | script: Antonio Prohías; pencils: Antonio Prohías; inks: Antonio Prohías | The Black Spy, The White Spy |
| 24 | Popular Scientific Mechanics | comic story | 7 | script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Bob Clarke; inks: Bob Clarke | |
| 25 | A Domestic Scene | comic story | 1 | script: Don Martin; pencils: Don Martin; inks: Don Martin | |
| 26 | Just For the Record | promo (ad from the publisher) | 1 | pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker | |
| 27 | Announcing the All-New 1963 3/4 Edsel | illustration | 1 | pencils: Swedowsky & Weiss; inks: Swedowsky & Weiss; colors: Swedowsky & Weiss | |