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Mad Magazine comic books issue 30, December 1956: Mad builds a More Civilized Mouse Trap

This particular spread page, originally published in Mad Magazine comic books issue 30, December 1956. 

The artwork and script of "Mad builds a More Civilized Mouse Trap" touches several subjects of interest. These points of considerable transgressional potential shall not be elucidated upon here, as they venture too unashamedly into fields of ethics, morals, politics, history, questionable human virtues, chauvinism, race, etc.

MAD Builds a More Civilized Mouse Trap 
script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis*





*This scan was found on an obscure Blogspot post the exact nature or intention dof which remains opaque.





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