MAD #517 is now available everywhere magazines are sold! This devlish issue adds fuel to the 2012 election fire as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns begin to heat up! It also features our Avengers parody by Dick DeBartolo and Tom Richmond, Planet Tad, Spy vs. Spy, The MAD Strip Club, Al Jaffee's Fold-in, and "A MAD Look at the Zoo" by Sergio Aragonés!

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Artist: Mark Fredrickson

Yesterday was Julia Child’s 100th birthday — or would have been, had she not died in 2004.  But the indomitable French chef didn’t let a little thing like death keep her down — in fact, as you can see, she had a pretty busy 100th up there in the clouds.


Did you hear the big news?!? No, not about Paul Ryan. Or the Mars expedition. Syria? What’s that? We’re talking about the fact that Miley Cyrus got a haircut!!! You read right — her hair used to look one way…but now it looks different! We know that’s more than enough information to completely fry your brains — but we dug deeper to find out even MORE about this, the biggest news event of the year! So brace yourself for these…

Over the weekend Mitt Romney announced that his vice presidential running mate would be Paul Ryan, a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin’s 1st District. Not that much is known about Paul (especially if you’re not into reading newspapers or researching things). So aside from the fact that his last name is also a first name (crazy!), we weren’t sure what to expect from The Man Who Would Be Veep. Luckily, we stumbled across this…