Mad Magazine #601

Release Date, 8.12.2026

FIRE BAD…NEW CONTENT IN MAD? GOOD! Get ready to rattle your funny bone with the horrifically hilarious, Halloweenthemed MAD #601! This spine-tingling issue resurrects fresh takes on classic MAD favorites--MAD Look at... by Sergio Aragones, Spy vs. Spy, a brand-new Fold-In by Johnny Sampson, and even more mischief from beyond the grave. You'll also be haunted by movie and TV parodies, plus a trove of other classics from the Usual Gang of Idiots--each one exhumed from the dusty, cobweb-choked MAD archives. If anything's going to cure what ails you, it's this issue--delivering a high-voltage jolt of humor straight to the jugular.