A Mad Treasure Chest #49

This Warner Books digest from 1978 packs a chest full of MAD's sharpest humor into one compact paperback — and the cover, painted by Norman Mingo, sets the tone perfectly with a winking visual gag: Alfred E. Neuman's grinning face rendered as a pendant nestled front and center on a woman's blue décolletage. It's the kind of deadpan, double-take joke that made MAD irresistible, and issue #49 promises more of the same inside.